Tom Brunskill, Co-Founder and CEO of Forage shares lessons from closing the biggest brands in the world, reshaping employment with education, building a successful salesforce, solving the cold start problem and so much more.

Wild Hearts

Reshaping education and employment, with Tom Brunskill, Co-Founder of Forage

Forage is on a mission to transform career education and employment. By offering job simulations from leading companies, they enable students to gain real-world skills and experience, enabling them to make more informed decisions about the career they pursue. This innovative approach challenges traditional recruitment methods, focusing on education first to create a more inclusive and diverse talent pool.

✅ How Tom’s unique upbringing primed him to tackle the problem

✅ Transitioning from being an “unhappy lawyer” to founder

✅ Finding the formula for selling to enterprise clients

✅ The challenges of building a category-defining company

✅ The “holy grail” of personalised education

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Episode Highlights from Tom:

"Instead of hiring first and training second, you should actually be using software that educates the candidate pipeline first and then using that pool of talent and the signals that are surfaced in that experience to hire exceptional candidates"​

“We’re category defining, we’re painting a different future for what recruitment can look like, and that’s challenging. These companies have recruited in a very specific way for a very long time, and it can be challenging to will that future into existence.”

"I hope that education does become more responsive to workplace needs... It's about how do you broaden the surface area of luck for young people to end up in roles that do stimulate them"​