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We Job Box is heading to Web Summit Lisbon this November after being selected to join the event’s ALPHA startup programme.

We Job Box has been named a finalist in the RTS Technology Centre Awards 2026 for Collaborative Team of the Year, recognising the growing community helping us create better routes into opportunity.

At Connected Britain 2026, We Job Box founder Lalita Taylor explored what happens when employers look beyond previous experience and give people the opportunity to demonstrate what they can do.

We Job Box has been invited to Web Summit Lisbon as an Alpha startup. At Aston University, Irwin Mitchell asked psychology students whether they would consider a career in law, and no hand went up. After case studies and conversations with lawyers who started out in psychology, every hand did. Young people don't lack ambition, they lack exposure, and that is the gap we are determined to close.

The We Job Box Discover Track has been featured in Fishponds Voice. As part of the Digital Futures 50-hour work experience programme for 14 to 15-year-olds, funded by DSIT and evaluated by Aston University, more than 100 Cabot Learning Federation students took part in live employer sessions and workshops with organisations including the NHS, Barclays, HSBC, Deloitte, Spotify, Bosch and the BBC.

Psychology graduates are talented, but often struggle to see how their skills translate into today's workplace. The We Job Box Digital Futures Psychology Accelerator, designed with Aston University, brings 50 undergraduates together with employers including Irwin Mitchell, IBM and Asana for a hands-on workshop, meet-the-employer speed networking and digital literacy and AI skills training.

You need experience to get experience, opportunities go to people who know people, and too many systems filter people out before they can prove themselves. At University College Birmingham, We Job Box talks to undergraduates about the real barriers to entering tech and what industry and students can do now, not when they feel ready or when they graduate.

We Job Box has completed its 4-month government-funded pilot across London, Birmingham and Bristol. More than 250 young people aged 14 to 25 took part in the 50-hour Digital Futures Programme, combining digital skills, employer challenges, mentoring and real-world projects with trackable work experience hours. With only 52% of UK businesses offering work experience, we are now focused on scaling what works.

Invited by Lalita Pinky Taylor FRSA to a House of Lords morning of panels with women in leadership, BBC Radio 1 producer Kiran Nandra reflects on how We Job Box has launched her into a virtual world as an online avatar. Mentoring young hopefuls who want media careers has taught her to communicate in a new language and style that future generations understand.

Since joining the We Job Box programme in January, Rahul Bharadwa, Financial Administrator Apprentice and recent graduate, has gained access to opportunities that have supported his professional development. As part of the inaugural cohort, he attended the House of Lords launch event, an experience he says he would not have imagined possible at the start of the journey.

The response to the We Job Box launch at the UK House of Lords has been overwhelming. When people come together with a shared purpose, ideas spark and momentum builds. Next, we are forming our first We Job Box AI advisory group as we begin building an AI app designed to democratise opportunity in the digital economy, because we cannot stand by while the skills gap widens.

At the We Job Box launch breakfast at the UK House of Lords, trainer Bobbi Trehan-Young saw participants from the January London Launch Track cohort share how the programme transformed their confidence and pathways. Within two months they had secured multiple roles through We Job Box partners, proof of what founder Lalita Pinky Taylor FRSA calls technology-enabled equitable access to real work experience.

Days after launching at the UK House of Lords, We Job Box has joined the Equity 2030 Alliance, a global initiative led by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The alliance brings together leaders from business, academia and government to drive gender equity in science, technology and finance, because access to opportunity shouldn't be determined by where you start.

We Job Box is launching at the House of Lords as part of the Global Thinkers Forum's Women at the Helm event for International Women's Day 2026. More than 70 partners and friends will join a seated breakfast to mark our mission to democratise a work-ready workforce, with an update on the government-funded Digital Futures Work Experience programme, currently being evaluated by Aston University.

CPD-accredited work experience matters, but paid work experience takes the impact further. Ajan joined the We Job Box Digital Futures programme as a participant in January. Since then he has become a paid virtual floor walker, gained mentorship from employer partners and is now running his own paid workshop for 14 and 15-year-olds, showing how entrepreneurship, dance and community can build something sustainable.

Work experience is one of the strongest predictors of employment success, yet many young people never get the chance. Funded by the Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund and delivered with Aston University, the Digital Futures Work Experience Programme supported 250 young people over three months with 30+ employers including the BBC, HSBC and Barclays. We shared the results with Baroness Lloyd of Effra CBE, Minister for the Digital Economy.

Next week we demonstrate We Job Box to the Minister from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, who fund our pilots. At the heart of the demo is "Meet the Employers" speed networking, a virtual avatar experience that gives young people real-world insight into professional life. As Deloitte volunteer Imran Choudhury puts it, he wishes something like it had been around when he was a teenager.

Students from four schools returned for Day 2 of the We Job Box Immersive Accelerator, our third Government-funded pilot in Bristol. Women leaders from the BBC, Barclays UK and beyond shared their journeys in media, technology and storytelling, while sessions on media literacy and financial literacy gave 14 and 15-year-olds tools for spotting fake news and understanding their first paycheque.

Many adults tell young people that AI will take all the jobs. At a We Job Box "Meet the Employer" session with 100 14 and 15-year-olds, the message was different: AI will change work and create new roles, and resilience, adaptability and curiosity are skills employers need. If the future is still being built, young people get to help build it.

For International Women's Day 2026, we spotlight Kanwal Rauf, Head of Computing at University College Birmingham. Her Computing Ambassadors don't just learn theory, they guide and inspire younger students as We Job Box floorwalkers, proving that access to opportunity works best when it is structured, scalable and rooted in belief.