Many organisations are struggling to secure the skills required for long-term innovation, transformation, and expansion. Traditional recruitment strategies and processes focus on finding and hiring candidates who already possess experience and expertise in relevant sectors. While effective in the short term, this approach limits access to emerging talent and overlooks individuals with strong potential who could thrive with targeted development.
Impellam Project Services’ Recruit, Train, Deploy model is delivered to address this, creating a connection between education and careers. Via Recruit, Train, Deploy, organisations can nurture, develop and grow untapped talent, including individuals from underrepresented regions and groups.
This not only has the potential to help build stronger, more diverse, skillful, and future-proofed workforces, and provide more people with more opportunities to build exciting, fulfilling careers, but it also helps to build organisations build capabilities for – and plan for – future projects and their potential outcomes.
Where Recruit, Train, Deploy is already making an impact
With demand for data and how AI is reshaping workforce management, many sectors and organisations across STEM sectors are realising they can’t rely on conventional hiring strategies alone to build the capabilities required for multi-year transformation.
Instead, leaders are turning to structured skills growth programmes like Recruit, Train, Deploy to develop talent aligned to the precise needs of their current and long-term projects. In some cases, organisations can fund tailored upskilling and training solutions such as this by leveraging apprenticeship levies, making them an even more appealing proposition.
“Our expertise in apprenticeships and training provider partnerships enables us to front-load learning,” says Chris Blackburn, Impellam’s Director of Skills Growth. “This is equipping new hires with job-ready skills in as little as 12 to 18 weeks. This accelerated approach means new employees can make an immediate impact while continuing their development on the job.
This approach is often used in technology because the sector evolves rapidly, requiring organisations to quickly develop and onboard talent with up-to-date, practical skills that may not yet be widely available through traditional education pathways.”
Effective future workforce planning is essential to the successful implementation of Recruit, Train, Deploy. Organisations that look beyond the needs of now and plan for 12 months or even several years ahead are better prepared to anticipate and react to skill requirements, stabilise their delivery capability, and make impactful, strategic decisions around their workforce.
A forward-thinking approach also enables the forging of clear career pathways, a strategy that resonates with today’s workforce, where career progression and continuous learning are often considered equal as a motivator.
Learn more about our AI Skills Growth Programme as part of Recruit, Train, Deploy model.
Shaping a successful Recruit, Train, Deploy journey
For a Recruit, Train, Deploy programme to be a success it is vital to ensure training is not only relevant, but engaging too. Therefore, devising a learning journey that matches real-world job and ever-changing skill requirements, and provides talent with genuine growth opportunities, is an important first step.
Whenever possible, learning should be integrated into the everyday working environment rather than treated as a separate activity. This approach enables new team members to start contributing productively much earlier than many expect.
The traditional view that ‘on-the-job' training and learning hampers productivity is an outdated one. When thoughtfully developed and delivered, the Recruit, Train, Deploy model can ensure learners become valuable contributors at an early stage of the journey, as explained by Chris Blackburn:
“You're going to get an individual after three months who's giving you 50, sixty, 70% productivity and you've got a tap and a flow of these individuals that you didn't have before.”
Additionally, candidate care is central to the model. Strong pastoral care, continuous feedback, and personalised development ensure new talent feels supported and confident throughout the early stages of their journey.
Impellam Project Services & Recruit, Train, Deploy
Choosing the right partner for a Recruit, Train, Deploy initiative is crucial to the programme’s success.
At Impellam Project Services, our expertise and experience in workforce development and project delivery, coupled with our strong connections with industry-leaders across STEM sectors, gives us – and our partners – an edge in a highly competitive market.
We have a trusted, proven track record of integrating on-the-job training and upskilling talent within existing workforces and workflows, tailoring learning journeys to match the needs of organisations, their people, and their projects.
To find out more about how our Recruit, Train, Deploy specialists can help futureproof your workforce, contact us using the form below and we’ll be in touch to discuss your specific requirements.