David Allison, PhD
Organisational psychologist. Built GetMyFirstJob into The Talent People over a decade, with backing from Nesta, City & Guilds and UnLtd. Trustee of two UK education charities; speaks regularly at the ISE on behavioural assessment.
We’re a multi-disciplinary team of business psychologists, platform designers, engagement specialists and engineers. The practitioners who shape what we build are the same people you’ll meet on your account — not a sales handover into an account-management layer.
1. A practitioner on every account. Whatever you’re working on — an Assessment Platform deployment, a schools programme, an RPO — there’s a named, qualified practitioner accountable for it. Most are chartered business psychologists or have a decade-plus in early careers. None of them have ever read from a script.
An account manager can tell you what we do. A practitioner can tell you what to do.
2. Multi-disciplinary by design. Behavioural assessment is not a single discipline. We pair business psychologists with platform designers, schools specialists with data scientists, engagement leads with engineers. The arguments at the whiteboard are the reason the work holds up under audit.
3. Embedded, not arms-length. We don’t hand a tool over and walk away. For most engagements, your TTP practitioner is in the room (or the Slack channel) for the entire cycle — from cohort design through shortlist review to post-hire validation.
Organisational psychologist. Built GetMyFirstJob into The Talent People over a decade, with backing from Nesta, City & Guilds and UnLtd. Trustee of two UK education charities; speaks regularly at the ISE on behavioural assessment.
Fifteen years in HR-tech product, including senior roles at Workday UK, Eploy and Personio. Champions the candidate side of every feature decision — on the principle that anything that’s bad for candidates eventually becomes bad for employers.
Chartered business psychologist (BPS). Built the predictive validity and adverse-impact methodology underpinning the Assessment Platform. Author of the technical paper benchmarking r = 0.42 against first-year performance across 110 deployments.
Former Head of Outreach at a UK Russell Group university. Leads our schools team across 800+ UK secondaries and FE colleges, and the engagement design that feeds the Immersive Work Experience platform.
60 more business psychologists, designers, engineers, engagement specialists and customer-success leads sit behind the four above.
Chartered business psychologists. Owners of validity, adverse impact, scoring methodology and audit-readiness. Led by Dr. Ada Olatunji.
Engagement designers and former outreach leads. Run our 800+ school programmes and the Immersive Work Experience content engine. Led by Tom Reeves.
The team behind the six-product stack. ISO 27001-aligned engineering practice, UK data residency, two-week release cadence.
Embedded practitioners, not generic CSMs. Most have come from in-house early-careers teams — they’ve sat in your seat.
The team that runs full-service Recruitment Outsourcing engagements. Campaign leads, candidate marketers, attraction specialists.
We hire through our own Assessment Platform, which means we hire the way we want to be hired. About a third of the team came in via apprentice or first-job routes.
For procurement: every member of the team is UK-based and UK-employed. All candidate data is stored in AWS London. We do not subcontract assessment delivery offshore.
For everyone else: we’re hybrid by default, in-person on a regular cadence, on Zoom the rest of the time.
Most clients meet two or three of us in their first conversation — usually a senior business psychologist, a platform specialist, and someone from the relevant industry team. No SDR funnel; the people who’d work on your account are the people in the first call.