You can still apply to be part of The Talent Tap if you will be under 18 at the time of the programme. Although you would not be able to attend residentials yet, The Talent Tap offers many opportunities for support – such as mentoring and bursaries – that you would be eligible for, whatever your age. The Talent Tap is not a “one-off” experience – we provide support throughout your final year of 6^th form and all the way through until you apply for your first “real” job, therefore there is plenty of time to be involved in the residential experiences.

You can still apply to be part of The Talent Tap – we do use some eligibility criteria as part of our application form and so we can easily determine if The Talent Tap is able to help you. We appreciate that where your school is located may not always be the best indicator of your own social mobility barriers, so do include any relevant information on your application form or email us at team@thetalenttap.com.

The Talent Tap focuses on city-based, professional careers which do not have their own designated path of training and work experience. If you are looking at a career area outside of those listed please refer to our eligibility criteria, or drop us an email on team@thetalenttap.com and we will let you know if it is an area we could support you in.

We offer as much support as we can to our student when they are not with us on residential – we have a mentoring programme that connects students with professionals from our business partners, we offer UCAS application and personal statement mentoring for our Year 12s and Year 13s, we have Zoominars produced with our business partners that give insight into many different career areas, we offer bursaries for travel to university open days, and much more. The Talent Tap takes a pastoral approach and you each matter to us individually – and if you need support at any time you can email team@thetalenttap.com.

When you become part of The Talent Tap you are able to sign up to our mentoring programme – we offer both sustained (long-term) and flash (one-off) mentoring sessions with professionals from our business partners.

Our residential programme takes place in the weeks immediately after the end of University and A-level examinations.  Historically this has been the last week in June and the first three weeks in July. We run two, two week programmes over the summer and we aim to fit around both your availability and the availability of the work experience placements suited to you.

We do apply eligibility criteria to our applications – what exactly these are in terms of GCSE/A Level grades depends on the school you have come from. You can find more information in the eligibility section. We are aware, however, that the location of your school and a list of grades on a page is not always the full story, so please do email us with any relevant information or to discuss eligibility on team@thetalenttap.com.