Breaking Barriers: Opportunities For All: Featuring Felicity Halstead, Founder of GoodWork

Not My First Guess

This episode we are joined by Felicity Halstead, founder of the company GoodWork. GoodWork is a not-for-profit that works with employers to create employment opportunities for young people from marginalised communities. Having had experience in youth programmes, as well as working with social mobility organisations and supporting entry-level recruitment in her job, Felicity saw first hand that a young person’s results on paper are not an accurate representation of how that person would apply themselves in the workplace. So often organisations would focus on past performance rather than potential. This led to the creation of GoodWork as Felicity hopes to breakdown systemic barriers to create more opportunities for young people.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Preconceptions around what talent looks like and how to identify potential
• Transitioning from only working in the public sector to the private sector
• The importance of finding your community
• Fundraising in the charity sector
• The community interest company (CIC) route
• Being a LinkedIn topvoice
• The impact of having an ADHD and Autism diagnosis

Link to the GoodWork website:

• https://www.goodwork.org.uk/