How We Work

Two businesses, one charity - creating change for clients and society

Empower futures

The Early Careers Foundation helps young people to secure a great first job, by connecting them with professional mentors, workplace opportunities and financial support.

Partnering with our charity is free for UK schools and businesses, with all costs covered by The Ladder Group.

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Discover talent

The Early Careers Company connects global businesses with exceptional talent through equitable recruitment practices and tailored early careers strategies.

We deliver inclusive recruitment campaigns, apprenticeships, campus recruitment, early careers programmes and attraction strategies.

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Advance equity

Ladder Consulting enables businesses to harness the potential of employees from all backgrounds and supports in developing impactful ESG initiatives.

We provide social mobility education, advisory services and bespoke solutions, focused on equitable employee development structures and community engagement.

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Our Partnerships

In all of our work, we recognise that positive relationships drive positive outcomes. It’s why over 80% of our work is with repeat clients.

Whether it's with our clients, candidates, or charity beneficiaries, we take the time to understand their unique needs and aspirations, ensuring that the support we offer is collaborative and bespoke.

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driving inclusion

By working closely with The Early Careers Foundation, our businesses provide clients with insights informed by the real experiences of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds.

All employees at The Ladder Group complete regular training in inclusion and social mobility, to ensure that our work is informed by best practices, and our processes always support equity.

What people say about us

The Early Careers Company team managed our early careers advertising, attraction and recruitment across Europe and couldn’t have done a better job. They provided a flawless customer experience for myself and the team, hiring over 100 people into our organisation and significantly levelling up our socioeconomic and ethnic diversity.

Michael Laws

Head of People & Talent, Pleo

Working with the Ladder Consulting team has been fantastic! We brought them on board as experts to create inclusive development frameworks for our head office - they use the very best of behavioural science and data analysis to be able to understand the DNA of your people, and are pioneers in this space.

Dan Curtis

Head of Talent, Travelodge Hotel Group

We partnered with Ladder Consulting to create a returnship for mothers from low-income backgrounds, and a European mentoring programme for young people. It is a pleasure to work with them in how they treat you; having them deliver impactful work makes our ESG strategy and roadmap credible to the business.

Chiara Galli

EMEA HR Director, Puig

The Early Careers Company played a key role in helping us set up our graduate programme, running assessment days, and handling marketing and candidate relationships. Throughout our partnership, we really appreciated how responsive the project team was – they were quick to listen to our feedback and answer any questions we had. The quality of the graduate candidates was exceptional and that was all down to ECC for getting to know our business, people, values and vision.

Sarah Yorston

People & Culture Director, Everflow

Being a part of The Early Careers Foundation's trailblazing mentoring programme has meant that seventeen British Airways colleagues have been able to share their lived experiences and wisdom, supporting the education of their mentees on skills, career paths and more.

Sam McGrane

Emerging Talent Partner

I would wholeheartedly recommend The Early Careers Foundation to any school. Their team make the students feel comfortable, supported and engaged – the assemblies they delivered were exceptional – and you can tell that they sincerely care about the students and bringing about meaningful change by enabling social mobility.