For employers
Hire brilliant, overlooked talent - and deliver CSR that actually lands.
TechStart partners with employers to open tech careers to young people from underrepresented backgrounds. You get skilled, motivated hires and a partnership that maps cleanly to your ESG goals.
Why partner with TechStart
Four reasons employers stay with us for cohort after cohort.
Access diverse, work-ready talent
Our graduates are trained on real projects and pre-screened for the professional skills you actually hire for.
Meaningful, measurable impact
Every hire and volunteering hour maps to social value you can report against ESG and CSR frameworks.
A long-term partnership
We work with you across cohorts - not one-off events - so your team sees compounding results.
Reduced cost-to-hire
Skip agency fees. We match candidates to your roles and support onboarding for the first 90 days.
Recruitment support
End-to-end hiring help - so roles get filled with the right people, faster.
- Role scoping and job description review
- Curated shortlists of pre-screened candidates
- Interview preparation with candidates
- Structured onboarding support (first 90 days)
- Diversity and inclusion reporting for your team
Corporate volunteering
High-impact, low-lift ways for your team to give back and grow.
- 1-hour lunch-and-learn talks from your team
- Half-day mock interview clinics
- Portfolio and CV review workshops
- 1:1 mentoring programmes (3 or 6 months)
- Hackathons and product sprint challenges
CSR opportunities
Sponsor real outcomes with reporting your board can use.
- Sponsor a cohort of 10-20 young people end-to-end
- Fund equipment, travel and childcare bursaries
- Named scholarship and bursary programmes
- Impact reporting aligned to UN SDGs 4, 8 and 10
- Co-branded events and thought leadership
Success stories
Real people, real employers, real outcomes.
WebFX - From placement to permanent hire
Olya joined WebFX through a TechStart placement after arriving in the UK from Ukraine. She's now a permanent Web Developer, has travelled internationally with the team, and mentors our newest cohort.
Read the storyGraduate pathway - Karan into product
Karan joined our graduate pathway with a strong academic record but no industry network. Through mentoring and interview prep, he landed a role at a scaling product team within four months.
Read the storyEntrepreneur pathway - Bailley's studio
Bailley used the entrepreneur pathway to turn a side project into a small creative studio, now employing two other TechStart alumni.
Read the storyWhat employers say
Feedback from partners across engineering, people and CSR teams.
"TechStart delivered a shortlist of candidates who were sharper and more prepared than anything we saw through agencies. Our first hire was billable in her second week."
"The mentoring programme has been one of the most valued perks our team has. Our engineers get as much out of it as the young people do."
"We sponsored a full cohort and got back a genuinely useful impact report - not marketing fluff. It made board reporting easy."
Trusted by teams across the UK
A selection of the employers we've placed talent with or delivered volunteering for.
- WebFX
- Microsoft
- Deloitte
- Accenture
- BBC
- Meta
- Barclays
Talk to our partnerships team
Tell us about your team and what you're hoping to do. We'll get back to you within a few working days.