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About Startingpoint

We connect motivated and skilled young people with organisations seeking to make a positive impact.

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Our approach

We're redefining how young people showcase themselves and secure the right career opportunities.

Qualifications matter, but they don't encapsulate a person's potential. Traditional CVs focus on academic results and neglect the interpersonal skills, attributes and character that today's employers actually recruit for.

We enable young people to show themselves as more than a list of grades — their skills, talents, motivation, creativity and potential. This is not just about job hunting. It's about finding roles that fit a person's talent, and improving earning potential and job satisfaction along the way.

Why we started

Three founders, one shared frustration

Two of our founders run a specialist school for children excluded from or unable to attend mainstream education. The third spent years running a recruitment agency, meeting young people who were not academically inclined and had no way to show what they could do — including his own son, who is autistic and worried about disclosing his neurodiversity to employers.

Let's work together to bridge the gap between potential and opportunities.

Built inside education

Designed alongside the schools, colleges and mentors who use it every day.

Grounded in recruitment

Shaped by two decades of watching good candidates get filtered out by a CV.

Made for every learner

Including neurodivergent young people and those outside mainstream schooling.

Safeguarded from day one
Mentor approval and anonymised profiles are the design, not a setting.
The people

Meet the team

Educators, recruiters, technologists and advisors — select anyone to read their full background.

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“Startingpoint is a real passion project for me, enabling people to understand their skills better and fulfil their true value.”
Tom Simpson — Managing Director & Co-founder

Working with…

National Employability Week
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National Careers Week
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