This show is going to be presented by Jimmy McLoughlin. who up until last year, was advising the UK Prime Minister on business specialising in technology and entrepreneurship.

The aim of this podcast is to interview entrepreneurs about where they think the jobs of the future are coming from and recreate a Prime Ministerial briefing.

The truth is, no-one knows what the future holds, but the people building the fastest growing businesses is a good place to start.

When working in 10 Downing Street, Jimmy's primary role was to be the go to person for business leaders when they wanted to feed information into the centre of the Government.It meant he could be dealing with a wide range of issues on any given day, from apprenticeship policy, to stock market dives or their concerns about the latest round of Brexit negotiations. The worst part his day would come when he would get a call from a FTSE Chief Exec telling me they were about to make a large number of redundancies to coincide with the opening of the stock market.

This would make for a lot of doom and gloom headlines, and of course for every job lost it was not only a tragedy for an individual, but would often impact an entire family. Yet the UK was undergoing a jobs miracle at the same time, entrepreneurs up and down the country were starting and growing businesses which was leading to record level of employment, but these incremental steps were often not widely reported.

Therefore he was and is curious about where these new jobs were coming from and each week, he’d try to include a note for the PM about a company that had created new jobs in a different area of the country.

With everything that has happened in 2020, this now feels more pressing than ever. The process of trying to find a new job is bewildering and complex and it can be difficult to know how to future proof your skills.

So that is what this podcast is about, interviewing entrepreneurs about where they see the jobs of the future coming from, where they are planning to take their businesses, what skills they value now, but also what skills they think their business will need in 3-5 years time.

Whether you are just starting out on your career, transitioning or even a bit longer in the tooth, I hope you’ll find these conversations thought provoking about where our economy is going.

We have some amazing guests lined up like Hayden Wood who founded the renewable energy company, Bulb and people like Sarah Wood, who had been a University Lecturer, but went on to create £100 million pound business in Unruly Media. He'll break the summaries down into what I would include in a PM briefing and then more of a general careers counsel.

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