Workplus | Real People, Meaningful Careers

About Workplus | Real People, Meaningful Careers

Workplus uncovers the powerful stories hidden inside ordinary-sounding jobs. Each episode introduces you to the people doing good work and the ripple effects they create for colleagues, customers, and communities. Whether you’re leading a team, exploring apprenticeships, considering a career change, returning to work, teaching 21st-century skills, or shaping policy around the future of work, Workplus offers an authentic glimpse of how real careers are built, how the skills gap is being addressed and how you can be part of it. New episodes every Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

Publisher

Richard Kirk

Category

business · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jul 2025

Latest episode

13 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Construction is Changing | Workplus Ep. 24

   School is meant to be the best days of your life. For Jody Wilkinson, that cliché turned out to be true in a way he never expected. In this episode of Workplus, host Richard Kirk sits down with Jody Wilkinson, Managing Director at Henry Brothers, whose career in construction started, unintentionally, helping the caretakers maintain his old 1700s school building. What followed was a career spanning quantity surveying in London, technical leadership in consultancy, and now managing director of ...

2. 

   30 Jul 2026

   Starting a Career in the Age of AI | Workplus Ep. 23

   What's the wrong question to ask about AI and jobs? "Are the machines going to take all our jobs?" Gareth Hetherington has a better one. In this episode of Workplus, host Richard Kirk sits down with Gareth Hetherington MBE, Director of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre, one of Northern Ireland's leading economists and the person behind some of the most important research on skills, demographics and the future of work in the region. Gareth worked three jobs the summer after his GCSE...

3. 

   16 Jul 2026

   Finding Your Path | Workplus Ep. 22

   What's the best piece of advice Gavin Annon has ever been given? Regret is always harder to deal with than failure. Everything else follows from that. In this episode of Workplus, host Richard Kirk sits down with Gavin Annon, Chief Sales Officer at Mount Charles Group, one of Northern Ireland's top ten employers with over three and a half thousand people across the island of Ireland. Mount Charles started thirty-eight years ago when Gavin's dad was turned down from the police for being a qua...

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