Vitruvia’s DNA

Careers Collective and Vitruvia started life when co-founders Sally Everist and Tina Harrigan-James built a team during the early days of the pandemic to support as many people as possible through positive, proactive career education.

They’ve spent their entire careers helping other people make the most of theirs. Sally as a life coach, entrepreneur and creator of The Good Schools Guide: Careers, Tina as a teacher, school leader and charity director, and both as respected careers consultants.  

Harnessing an established network of expert career educators, consultants, coaches, and mentors, the business has worked virtually with schools, industry bodies, businesses and Government agencies. That work has informed the service offer and evidences the impact of our approach. The result is our human skills training ecosystem. In our first 5 years, we’ve helped strengthen and develop human skills for over 100,000 people all across the UK.    

 

Tina filming with Kingerlee for the CITB in Oxford.
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Ability, ambition and answers

Working with us is about getting clear, constructive results. Our bespoke human skills training solutions meet your expectations.

Designed to be different

We take an agile, can-do approach to human skills training, offering learners interactive digital micro modules, suitable for all ages and career stages.

Blog Posts

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Learning from the Masters : shaping a human future
Human skills
Learning from the Masters : shaping a human future
Human skills

We promised we would share the inspiration behind our company name, and - no surprise for co-founders who hold degrees in anthropology and history, and literature - it involves an ancient story of human endeavour...

Human skills
Longer Lives, Longer Careers?
Longer lives, longer careers, 100 year life
Longer Lives, Longer Careers?
Longer lives, longer careers, 100 year life

Statistics simply do not support that claim however, with data suggesting that our socio-economic group has more to do with our life expectancy after retirement than the job we did or the stress it caused us. The age at which we retire doesn’t seem to be much of a predictor for retirement life expectancy either, because data suggesting that early retirees die more quickly is muddied by the fact that people often retire early because they are suffering life-limiting health conditions.

Longer lives, longer careers, 100 year life
From ‘soft’ to ‘human’: what’s in a name?
Human skills, employers
From ‘soft’ to ‘human’: what’s in a name?
Human skills, employers

We have come to accept, however subconsciously, that scientists and engineers deal with hard things, like machines, test tubes and pipes. Solid manly things. Meanwhile, therapists, teachers and nurses deal with soft things, like people and feelings. Feminine, unquantifiable things. Over the decades, society has tended to place more value on professions involving hard skills - value that has seen high salaries and status for those who develop ‘hard’ skills. 

Human skills, employers
AI and job displacement: fanning the flames of fear?
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AI and job displacement: fanning the flames of fear?
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We like to call this the Fire and Anguish Narrative (FAN) surrounding AI, with hyped-up concerns about productivity and job displacement increasingly prevalent in the media and political discourse. Such a narrative FANs (sorry, couldn’t resist) the flames of anxiety for educators, parents and young people, who are completing the preparatory work for entrance into the workforce, which requires some horizon scanning.

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