Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Amazon’s Upskilling Push: Career Choice, Skilled Hiring, and Supported Internships At a new Amazon fulfillment center, Amazon UK & I Country Manager John Boumphrey discusses job announcements, hiring needs, and major upskilling efforts, including the Career Choice program that funds nationally recognized qualifications up to £3,000 a year in the UK, training about 30,000 people in the UK and 300,0...

Tom Kerridge on Why UK Restaurants Are Failing: Rising Costs, VAT the Problem, and the Fight to Save Hospitality Watch the full documentary: https://youtu.be/LKaEiZ5TE5Q At Tom Kerridge’s Whitehall restaurant, we explores why UK hospitality is struggling despite strong demand: rising utility bills, food inflation, minimum wage and national insurance increases, and business rates have eroded alread...

Lord Matthew Elliott on Vote Leave, Modern Campaigning, AI Microtargeting, and the Jobs Foundation Jimmy interviews Lord Matthew Elliott, former Vote Leave CEO and author of “Ten Years On,” about building and running political campaigns, recruiting and developing talent, and measuring success through objectives, media impact, and interim targets. Elliott contrasts traditional campaigning with toda...

Nihal Arthanayake: From Radio 1 to Corporate Storytelling - Class, Diversity & the BBC’s Blind Spots Nihal Arthanayake, former BBC Radio 1 presenter, joins Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future to trace his career, from promoting rap nights at 16 and fronting Collapsed Lung to being dropped by a major label and pivoting into music journalism and PR before becoming a Radio 1 DJ in 2002. Nihal explains how rad...

Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, Trust, and AI’s Disruptive Future This week's guest, Jimmy Wales, discusses how Wikipedia grew from an experimental, volunteer-edited side project spun out of the failed top-down Nupedia, from early “Hello, world” days and primitive accounts to organic traffic and press, and now a nonprofit with about 650 staff supporting tech, operations, fundraising, legal, and trust-an...

How Adobe Quietly Powers the World (and the AI Fight for Creators)This episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future visits Adobe’s London headquarters to explore how Adobe’s influence extends beyond Photoshop and PDFs into marketing technology that powers personalized experiences for major brands and institutions like Tesco, the Premier League, banks, Channel 4, Sky, Disney, and governments. VP Simon Mor...

Currys CEO Alex Baldock & Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson on Retail, Energy, Regulation and AI Jimmy hosts a panel with Currys CEO Alex Baldock and Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson on how retail and energy drive jobs, growth and prosperity. Baldock outlines Currys’ scale (nearly £10bn sales, 24,000 colleagues) and argues retail employs around 20% of the private sector workforce with rising productivi...

Thanks to Salesforce for Partnering on this episode, check out our new AI report here: https://www.jobsofthefuture.co/salesforce-ai-poll In this episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, Jimmy interviews Zahra at Salesforce’s new AI centre in London’s Devonshire Square, discussing careers, AI adoption, and skills. Zahra shares her first job in a pizza place, an early ambition to become a diplomat blo...

Lord Michael Spencer on the CPS, Conservative Renewal, and Making the Case for Enterprise Jimmy interviews Lord Michael Spencer at the Centre for Policy Studies’ Margaret Thatcher Enterprise Conference in London, discussing Spencer’s career founding ICAP and his current role chairing the CPS as it recruits a new executive director to succeed Robert Colvile. Spencer explains what a think tank and i...

Former Arsenal F.C. midfielder Mathieu Flamini joins Jimmy to talk about life after elite football, building a global biochemical company, and what Arsène Wenger taught him about leadership, pressure, and winning. Mathieu opens up about the reality of playing for Arsenal, the loneliness of elite sport, the mentality required to survive at the top level, and why “footballers die twice”. He explains...

Anthony Scaramucci doesn’t hold back. From Trump’s obsession with legacy (yes, including the “ballroom” idea) to why Keir Starmer’s strategy with Trump might actually be working, this is a rare insider breakdown of power, ego, and what really happens behind the scenes. Scaramucci explains: Why Trump respects King Charles — and what Americans really think of the Royal Family What the next two years...

Note: For transparency, McDonald’s have previously sponsored Jimmy’s Jobs and have been strong supporters of the show. What’s really going on inside McDonald’s? Jimmy sits down with the new UK & Ireland CEO, Lauren Schultz, inside McDonald’s HQ — with a live restaurant running behind them — to break down how one of the world’s biggest brands actually operates. They cover: The real reason McDonald’...

Karishma Vijay on Winning The Apprentice, Explosive Growth & What Lord Alan Sugar Is REALLY Like Behind The Scenes Days after winning The Apprentice, Karishma Vijay sits down with Jimmy’s Jobs to break down what actually happens when you win — from £250K investment decisions to £250K in sales in just 72 hours. She reveals the truth about working with Lord Sugar, how she built skincare brand Kishki...

Our guests need no introduction- Ben Francis & Noel Mack are the founder and Chief Brand Officer of Gymshark.  Setting up their HQ in the Midlands, Gymshark is one of the most exciting brands in the UK and is now valued at over £1 billion.  Ben and Noel would be the first to admit that traditional schooling and academia did not suit their strengths and neither left school with great results- but i...

How to Talk to AI: Prompting, Bias, Creativity, and the Hidden Risks of Chatbots In this episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, Jamie Bartlett returns to discuss his book How to Talk to AI and why the real challenge is not just prompt engineering techniques but learning to ask good questions, spot loaded premises, and stay a critical thinker when faced with fluent machine answers. We explore how s...

Q1 Wrap-Up: 100K Subscribers, Awards, New Show Launch, and What’s Next Jimmy and producer Sunny Winter record a Q1 roundup for “Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future,” reflecting on recent milestones and upcoming plans. Highlights include surpassing 100,000 YouTube subscribers and receiving the silver plaque, winning “Interview of the Year” at the Political Podcast Awards for the Tony Blair episode, securing...

Jamie Bartlett| Internet Subcultures and the Social Media Rage Machine Jimmy interviews writer and podcaster Jamie Bartlett about his hard-to-define career researching internet culture, subcultures, and online-driven movements, shaped by early work at Demos and a fascination with being an early “expert” on emerging online worlds like the darknet. Bartlett explains how he gains access to difficult...

Thank you to McDonald's UK for sponsoring this episode. To check out our episode with Amazon, click here: https://youtu.be/nIXLXoF33dY Pat McFadden on Youth Unemployment, Apprenticeships, and How AI Will Change Work | Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future Pat McFadden, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, joins Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future to discuss the UK’s youth jobs crisis, with nearly a million young...

Tony Blair on AI, Work, and What Governments Get Wrong (Award-Winning Interview) This episode of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future - featuring former Prime Minister Tony Blair - was recently named Best Interview at the Political Podcast Awards, so we’re revisiting the conversation with a fresh edit. Jimmy and Tony discuss how artificial intelligence could reshape government and the economy, why the UK no...

Will Storr on Status Games: Politics, Podcasts, Storytelling, and the Future of AI In the second half of Jimmy’s Jobs to the Future with author Will Storr, they discuss how status works in practice, from status signals inside Number 10 (proximity, key meetings, and especially influence) to modern politics as entertainment and the media’s “gotcha” incentives that push politicians toward soundbites....

Why do humans care so much about what other people think? This week on Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, Jimmy sits down with bestselling author and journalist Will Storr to explore one of the most powerful forces shaping our lives: status. Will has spent years investigating the hidden psychological forces that drive human behaviour. In this conversation, he explains why our brains are wired to seek sta...

Meet London’s “Batman”: Diego Galino on Exposing Pickpockets, Street Safety & Going Viral Support Diego here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-street-filming-against-london-pickpockets Diego Galdino, a.k.a Pickpocket London, explains how he went from a delivery rider to confronting and filming pickpockets to raise public awareness and help victims.  After seeing tourists targeted near Buckingham...

This episode is powered by Linkedin Premium All-in-One. Check it out here. Rachel Allison is the Founder of Multi-Award-Winning Creative Storytelling Agency Axe and Saw. What does the future of PR look like in a world where anyone with a smartphone can be a content creator? In this episode of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future, we sit down with Rachel Allison, the visionary founder of Axe and Saw, to deco...

Dex Hunter-Torricke has worked with some of the most influential people in Tech over the last 15 years. But now he's sounding the alarm.  In this episode of Jobs of the Future, we sit down with a true Silicon Valley insider who has spent the last 15 years at the epicentre of the tech revolution. From serving as the first executive speechwriter for Eric Schmidt at Google to leading communications f...

Unlocking the Secrets of Squiggly Careers with Helen Tupper In this episode of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future, Jimmy interviews Helen Tupper, the co-author of the bestselling book 'Learn Like a Lobster' and developer of the concept of 'Squiggly Careers'. Helen shares her insights on modern career trajectories and the importance of continual learning in the workplace. She explains how squiggly careers...