IMPACT AREA GROWING POTENTIAL We believe our industry offers great careers and we invest a lot of time and resources to nurture talent and give people the opportunity to progress their careers with us. For both front and back of house staff, we Our ambition is to help 10,000 individuals enter provide relevant training and an exciting the job market through apprenticeships, internships, career development path for those who want work experience placements, and job and life skills to progress within the business. We prioritise training. We have a strong history of empowering internal development and promotion over external individuals and have already celebrated seven recruitment, aiming for at least 70% of positions to cohorts of successful interns from Entrepreneurial be 昀椀lled by internal candidates. Some of our most Scotland’s Saltire Scholar programme. We also help popular training and development opportunities our talent grow within, with over 30 apprentices in include the ASK Italian Journey and Avanti our 昀椀nance, IT and procurement teams. We believe Leadership Programme, and Zizzi Viaggio. we have a real opportunity to touch people’s lives Coco di Mama is determined to grow the team and open doors to ful昀椀lling careers, just like Coco di internally through these programmes, and also Mama has shown possible with Change Please. supports individuals entering a career in hospitality. In June 2022, Coco di Mama employed three candidates from Change Please, a social enterprise that helps homeless people (or those at high risk) to enter the hospitality industry through barista training.
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