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In the meantime, you may find these resources helpful
In the meantime, you may find these resources helpful
Why apply for Worthwhile?
- Challenging entry-level roles
We work with small, innovative organisations that offer challenging roles and the opportunity to make an impact from the start of your career - Supportive community
You'll have a whole community of supporters: your peers, our friendly staff team and our alumni community of 150 young people - Graduate scheme training programme
17 days of training in the first 12 months provides specialist knowledge on working in social impact, soft skills development and the opportunity to reflect upon on-the-job learning
Graduate scheme and recruitment service
We offer two routes into a social impact role: recruitment only and graduate scheme.
All roles are with innovative small charities and social enterprises and paid at Living Wage (or above).
You can decide one route is right for you or keep an open mind. The application process is exactly the same.
All roles are with innovative small charities and social enterprises and paid at Living Wage (or above).
You can decide one route is right for you or keep an open mind. The application process is exactly the same.
Entry-level roles in social impact
The social impact sector needs everyone: project managers, finance professionals, marketing geeks, talented sales people, developers, fashion experts, and even chocolatiers, whether you're looking to work in a charity job or your first role in a social enterprise.
Worthwhile roles are entry-level (recent graduate) to junior manager level (around 2 years' experience). We recruit candidates into roles based on the needs of our charity and social enterprise partner organisations. |
We can't guarantee what will come up, but we commonly find the following types of roles for candidates:
- Frontline/Service Delivery - working directly with an organisation's beneficiaries. This could mean mentoring young people or supporting people back into work, for example
- Project Management - planning and delivering an organisation's projects and programmes. This may include coordinating between teams
- Communications - working on an organisation's external communications. This might include press, writing copy for a blog, looking after websites, digital marketing such as social media and newsletters. It could also include person-to-person communications and events management
- Business Development/Sales - selling an organisation's product or service to potential customers and growing an organisation's income stream(s)
- Fundraising - bringing in funds for an organisation. This could be through writing grant applications, building corporate partnerships, encouraging individual donors
- Research & Analysis - either qualitative or quantitative research. This might be collecting data from beneficiaries, drawing recommendations from data or evaluating the impact of a programme or whole organisation
Who will I work for?
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Graduate training programme
For young professionals on the graduate scheme, Worthwhile provides 17 days of workshop-style training over the course of 12 months. Start dates are flexible, so you can join the cohort at any point.
The programme is designed to give you a grounding in key sector knowledge and soft skills:
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How to apply for Worthwhile
What makes a candidate stand out?
We're know brilliant people come from all sorts of places and have different experiences. We don't believe in hard and fast entry requirements. To join Worthwhile, you don't need a particular degree classification; you don't even need to have a degree (although some specific roles may require degree-level education or equivalent).
We're looking for candidates with:
We're looking for candidates with:
- A deep and longstanding commitment to social impact demonstrated through activities such as volunteering, social enterprise, campaigning, leading a university society or working to improve your community
- Achievements and responsibilities outside required work or your regular studies. This could be running a youth group, starting a blog or cycling to China
- Self-awareness: willingness to grow and learn, to recognise your strengths and weaknesses and to admit when you've made mistakes. We're looking for people who are committed to personal development and demonstrate resilience in challenging times
Our commitment to diversity
The social impact sector needs different points of view, different skills and different life experiences. We encourage applications from anyone of any background (even if you don’t have a degree). Applications will be considered on merit alone.
We welcome applications from all persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. As a number of groups are currently under-represented on the scheme, we particularly encourage applications from students and graduates from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, or from a low income family. We would also welcome candidates with a diversity of academic backgrounds, including STEM subjects. We offer application and interview coaching to eligible applicants and can accommodate reasonable adjustments in the selection process - just let us know what you need to shine. Thinking of applying? Sign up here to request a coaching session. |
What's the application process?
Step 1 - Apply online
This will help us understand your background, what you could bring to a small social impact organisation and your motivation for applying to Worthwhile. We accept applications all year round. You will hear from us whether or not you have been successful in being selected to attend an interview at Worthwhile.
Step 2 - First stage interview
If you are successful in reaching interview stage, you'll be invited for an online competency interview. A panel of interviewers (usually Worthwhile staff and alumni of the scheme) will ask you questions that allow you to demonstrate how you have developed the skills, attitudes and capabilities that would make you a great candidate for Worthwhile.
Step 3- Second stage interview
The second stage of the interview process simulates a real world job assignment. We call this the case study interview. We'll give you some information about a made up, but realistic, scenario, and you will present back to us your responses to some questions about the information. You'll have an hour to prepare. You can do this by Skype or come to an assessment day in person in London.
Step 4- Panel stage
If you are successful in the interview process, we will invite you to be part of our talent pool, or 'panel'. The nature of working with small, exciting charities and social enterprises is that we have to match people to placements reactively. This means that gaining a position in the talent pool is not a job offer as such; rather, you will gain access to our roles as they come through, meaning you retain control over which roles you register interest in.
Step 5 - Finding the role for you
We support you to apply for the roles that you're interested in. The organisation will decide whether or not they want to take your application further. If they do, you will be invited to meet them for further assessment. If not, we’ll keep on supporting you to find the perfect match.
Step 6 - Welcome to Worthwhile
If you are successful in being selected by the host organisation, you will begin working for them full-time from a start date agreed between you and the organisation. If the role is full graduate scheme, you will have two days of induction training with us and will join the first training day with the rest of the cohort after your start date.
This will help us understand your background, what you could bring to a small social impact organisation and your motivation for applying to Worthwhile. We accept applications all year round. You will hear from us whether or not you have been successful in being selected to attend an interview at Worthwhile.
Step 2 - First stage interview
If you are successful in reaching interview stage, you'll be invited for an online competency interview. A panel of interviewers (usually Worthwhile staff and alumni of the scheme) will ask you questions that allow you to demonstrate how you have developed the skills, attitudes and capabilities that would make you a great candidate for Worthwhile.
Step 3- Second stage interview
The second stage of the interview process simulates a real world job assignment. We call this the case study interview. We'll give you some information about a made up, but realistic, scenario, and you will present back to us your responses to some questions about the information. You'll have an hour to prepare. You can do this by Skype or come to an assessment day in person in London.
Step 4- Panel stage
If you are successful in the interview process, we will invite you to be part of our talent pool, or 'panel'. The nature of working with small, exciting charities and social enterprises is that we have to match people to placements reactively. This means that gaining a position in the talent pool is not a job offer as such; rather, you will gain access to our roles as they come through, meaning you retain control over which roles you register interest in.
Step 5 - Finding the role for you
We support you to apply for the roles that you're interested in. The organisation will decide whether or not they want to take your application further. If they do, you will be invited to meet them for further assessment. If not, we’ll keep on supporting you to find the perfect match.
Step 6 - Welcome to Worthwhile
If you are successful in being selected by the host organisation, you will begin working for them full-time from a start date agreed between you and the organisation. If the role is full graduate scheme, you will have two days of induction training with us and will join the first training day with the rest of the cohort after your start date.
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