Employability Reimagined

🏡 'Kitchen Table Uni':  Lived Learning Experience

"I created iNeedWork.com because I saw firsthand that important workplace skills aren't always picked up in classroom settings. At home, my son and I fondly called our training ‘the kitchen table’: talking things through and building confidence without making learning feel overwhelming.

Together, we developed our own roadmap: targeting desired roles, researching the exact skills needed to secure them, and decoding market trends. Kitchen Table Uni grew from there."
— Angela Thomas, Founder

By blending 20 years of corporate business and tech transformation expertise with our personal learning journey, we bring a unique, supportive home-style approach straight to the community to address modern employment needs.

🤝 Our Collaboration with Partners

We partner directly with employability providers, community hubs, and forward-thinking employers to seamlessly enrich existing programs. By blending our signature kitchen-table methodology with your services, we help your clients engage deeper and progress faster.

We deliver targeted, lived-experience sessions designed for:

🌱 Young People & NEETs

We deliver engaging, down-to-earth training that strips away classroom boredom and equips young people with the baseline, everyday habits modern employers look for.

🔄 Career Changers, Returners & New to the UK

We use our supportive home-style pacing to help rebuild confidence, bridge work gaps, switch career directions, and quickly understand modern UK workplace expectations.

    💡 Why Organisations Work With Us

    Our sessions are engaging and grounded in lived experiences. They demonstrate that we understand what employers look for and the hurdles learners face—whether navigating major life events, adapting to different learning styles, or overcoming cultural barriers. We know how a confidence knock feels because we've seen it from both sides of the table.

    Consistent workshop feedback confirms that our relaxed, interactive style breaks the classroom mould and successfully keeps participants focused, motivated, and moving forward.

    • ❌ No textbook fog: We strip away classroom lectures and slides. We don't pretend that a standard quiz is interactive. We stick to clear activities and honest conversation.
    • 🧠 Adaptive learning: We shape every single session around the unique needs, gaps, and confidence levels of the people in the room.
    • ⚙️ Zero friction integration: We don’t replace your current support structures—we sit alongside your existing work to help your community impact go deeper.

    🏗️ Let’s Build on What You’re Already Doing

    You know your people, and you know where the support is already working — or where it could land better. We bring a practical, lived, proven style of learning that can sit alongside your work and help it go deeper. If something has not quite worked before — or you know it could work better — we’d love to help you make it land.