This document discusses Sky's strategies for attracting and retaining top talent. It addresses challenges like overseas recruitment, mobility vs empowered recruiting, and the competition for quality candidates. Sky aims to go where talent is and establish international development centers. The document also describes Sky's Software Engineering Academy, which gives young people opportunities to start careers in software engineering. It discusses people demand and supply models to support spikes and troughs in demand through graduates, apprenticeships, and augmented models. The goal is continuing flexible operations.

1. Attracting top talent
David Crawford - Sky
The Good Dinosaur

2. Sky’s evolution and associated challenges

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What do we do?

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Overseas recruitment – visas, language, culture –
referendum
What are our people challenges?
Mobility vs. empowered recruiting
Location, location, location Quality of the pool – competition
Cross and up-skill training
Women in Tech – availability
Non-perms vs. perms ratio
Reputation
Train, but no retain….

5. A different approach to recruitment

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Working For Sky YouTube Videos

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Billions

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Morph

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Go where the talent is…..

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HoT
TLE
TLE
Technical
People
Career Pathways
(Blockbuster)

12. Share Scheme

13. Diversity – a brave new world

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Sky Software Engineering Academy
What is the Academy ……
• Launched in 2011
• Give young people the opportunity to start a career with us
• 7 month accelerated scheme
• Learning the fundamental skills to be a Software Engineering professional
• Evolve Graduates into our future engineers
• Supporting all areas of technology
• Creating software engineers who will deliver using our Agile approaches
• Established in Osterley and Leeds

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Mad Men

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18. Holding our hands…….

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People – Demand and Supply - Models
Goal: Continue to operate under a flex-model which support spikes and troughs in demand
1. Graduates &
Apprentices
4. International
Development
Centres ?
2. Augmented
Model
(primary)
3. Augmented
Model
(secondary)
Skills gap
Skills gap
Skills gap

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Supporting people mobility
Working in partnership with Sky
Received 409 vacancies, 165 self sourced
placements, 54 PSL placements across the UK
Communicated with over 172 hiring
managers
Achieved a time-to-fill rate of 20 days
Achieved 100% satisfaction rating from hiring
manager and supplier satisfaction surveys
Delivered cost savings in excess of £1.5 million
over a period of 12 months
Simplified on-boarding
Feel like part of Sky the team!

21. Thank you!
David Crawford
twitter @DC99
david.crawford@sky.uk