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Platform · Immersive Work Experience · TalentXP

By the time they apply, the choice is already made.

Career decisions are made at year 9, not year 13. Brand exposure follows. Application is a confirmation, not a decision. The employers who win the post-AI early-careers funnel are the ones a 14-year-old can experience, not just see in a careers fair brochure. TalentXP is the platform that lets you build, brand and deploy realistic work experiences at scale — and capture the behavioural signal underneath them.

Annual reach (DHL)
38,000 students
Completion uplift
3× vs traditional
Accessibility
Ages 14+
Distribution
800+ schools
TalentXP · At a glance Production

Immersive Work Experience Platform

Part of the TalentHub. Connected natively to the Assessment Platform, TalentPortal and the rest of the platform.

  • Built forEarly careers, volume
  • Sectors8 regulated UK sectors
  • ComplianceGDPR, EHRC, ISO 27001
  • RoadmapQuarterly, customer-driven
What it does

Realistic work, scaled to a generation.

TalentXP lets the practitioners on your team — not just specialist agencies — build realistic, branded work experiences that capture behavioural signal. Same platform powers the school year-9 brand-build and the year-13 assessment shortlist.

Branded experience builder

Author realistic work experiences using TalentXP’s authoring tools. Sector-specific templates, role-family scenarios, customisable branding. Senior practitioner can deploy a new experience in 6–8 weeks.

01 · Builder

Behavioural signal capture

Every decision, every keystroke, every collaborative choice is captured as behavioural signal. Feeds the Assessment Platform with motivation, learning-agility, communication and initiative scores.

02 · Signals

School + network distribution

Distribution through 800+ school partner relationships and the 1.1m-strong GMFJ candidate network. Targetable by year group, region, sector interest.

03 · Distribute

ED&I-by-design

WCAG 2.2 AA throughout. Content tested with year 9-13 cohorts in priority-postcode (POLAR Q1/Q2) geographies. Multi-language scaffolding for English-as-additional-language candidates.

04 · Inclusive

Classroom mode for teachers

Teacher-facing classroom mode for year-group lessons. Dashboard for the careers leader; cohort completion data for the school. PSHE-curriculum-aligned where relevant.

05 · Classroom

Feeds the Assessment Platform

Behavioural signals from TalentXP flow directly into the Assessment Platform. The candidate who experienced your brand at year 9 surfaces with validated evidence at year 13. Closes the loop.

06 · Connect
How it works

From year 9 brandto year 13 evidence.

  1. Step 01

    Build the experience

    Senior practitioner configures the experience — sector, role family, branding, scenario. Live in 6–8 weeks; refresh in days afterwards.

  2. Step 02

    Deploy through schools + network

    Distribute through the 800+ school relationships, GMFJ candidate network, university partnerships. Targetable by year group, region, sector interest.

  3. Step 03

    Capture behavioural signal

    Every interaction logged as behavioural signal. Motivation, learning agility, initiative, communication scored against role-family success profiles.

  4. Step 04

    Hand off to assessment

    Signals flow into the Assessment Platform. The candidate who engaged with your brand at year 9 surfaces with validated evidence at year 13.

Outcomes

Validated across 240k students on the platform.

Customer-validated outcomes from TalentXP deployments across financial services, professional services, engineering, technology and the public sector, 2024–2025.
Reach
38k
Annual student reach on the DHL year 9-12 schools deployment.
Completion
3×
Completion rate vs traditional careers-content engagement — cohort-validated benchmark.
Validity
r 0.42
Predictive validity of TalentXP behavioural signals against 12-month line-manager performance, when used as input to the Assessment Platform.
Diversity
+34pp
Increase in priority-postcode (POLAR Q1/Q2) candidates engaged at year 9-10 vs traditional careers-event reach.
Integrations

Works with your stack.

TalentXP is the experience layer of the TalentHub. It feeds the Assessment Platform natively and exports cleanly to your enterprise CRM and analytics tooling.

TalentPortalNative
WorkdayATS
SuccessFactorsHRIS
GreenhouseATS
EployATS
OleeoATS
iCIMSATS
Smart RecruitersATS
Microsoft TeamsCollab
Get started

See TalentXP on your
year-9 funnel.

Book a 45-minute working session. We’ll walk through your current schools-engagement and brand-build programme, what TalentXP would replace, and what behavioural-signal feeds back into your Assessment Platform shortlist. No commitment.

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