Work Permissions Assistance
Digital Jersey can help your business access the talent it needs to thrive and grow.
Our dedicated team are here to help you obtain working permissions when sourcing specially skilled employees from off-island.
Guidance for applicants
Please note that the Digital Jersey team will use their policy and industry knowledge to establish whether you meet the necessary criteria to be endorsed by Digital Jersey for the scheme.
Please refer to Government of Jersey’s Business License Guidance notes for further details on employment statuses and associated fees.
Eligibility
Whether you are a digital business looking to fill a vacancy, or a non-digital business looking to build up your digital capabilities, we offer our support in accessing the talent you need.
Digital Jerseys’ work permission scheme is aimed at bridging the talent gap for skills that are most needed to support Jerseys’ digital economy. These skills, whether technical or business related, must be growth enablers to talent starved businesses. Working permissions are targeted at roles that will contribute towards the growth and development of the local digital sector, but most importantly those skills that are otherwise unavailable in the local talent pool.
Evaluation
Digital Jersey evaluates applicants based on the following:
Business growth & training
Digital Jersey takes into consideration the balance between Entitled and permissioned staff in the medium-term, as well as the training provision planned to support this. By employment growth we mean changes to the total number of employees, and by training we mean both formal and informal training; this could be through in-house time on accredited courses.
Candidate skills
When evaluating either the candidates’ skills or those required in the job description, Digital Jersey is looking for demonstrable merit. For instance, specified experience, education and soft/technical skills.
Availability of skills locally
Evaluated against industry insights, Digital Jersey takes into consideration the availability of the required skills in the Entitled/Entitled to Work talent pool.
Productivity & innovation
Digital Jersey will consider business productivity. By productivity, we mean the amount of monetised goods and services produced relative to total financial and human input, otherwise known as efficiency. Company innovation is a strong determinant of future productivity, for this reason we are particularly supportive of companies that demonstrate research, development and innovation activity. By this we mean the introduction of new products and services of process within their field.
Testimonials
Revoke (formerly Atam ID Technologies)
“I’ve been working with Digital Jersey on and off since Digital Jersey was formed. It was an obvious choice to go and speak to them and find out how they could help us with licences when we came across a candidate who was exceptional but who didn’t have the right (residential) qualifications.”
Aonghus Fraser, CEO, Revoke
Kulpa (formerly Anatomap)
“As the founder of a fast-growing tech start-up, it is critical that we are able to attract the talent we need. Hiring locally is always the preference but sometimes there is a skills shortage. We found someone suitable who required a Registered work permission and then Digital Jersey helped me to get the licence we needed within a week. They are an incredibly supportive organisation and a real key pillar in Jersey’s drive to build a substantial digital sector.”
– Simon Franc, CEO, Kulpa
Spud
“I first had the amazing assistance of Digital Jersey getting business license and work permission help when I relocated from England to set up a social media company, Spud Agency, on the island. They were so helpful from start to finish, and made the whole relocation much easier, mainly making sure I had everything I needed for my application.
Once settled on the island, the team started to grow and we employed someone locally. Finding people who are trained or understand what we do is vital for our company growth, so when we expanded again, we needed a work permission for someone who had those skills. Digital Jersey gave me all the support I needed right the way from guidance to advertising the job, to help with successfully securing new licenses. It’s enabled our start-up to keep growing, with the right people around us.”
– Becky Sheeran, Founder & CEO, Spud
Codentia
“As a product-development focussed technology agency, one of the greatest challenges we face is finding the right people to grow our team at the right times. The support we’ve received from Digital Jersey has enabled us to make the strategic hires we’ve needed to in order to support our existing clients and to engage with new projects – not just when we’ve needed to, but how we’ve needed to as well. This has allowed us to scale up faster than we would have been able to otherwise, and has helped us to reduce the risk faced in doing so.”
– Matt Chatterley, Owner, Codentia
Key Contacts
Chris Knight
Head of Business Development
Victoria Eastwood
Head of Member and Stakeholder Engagement
Hayley Routier
Member & Stakeholder Engagement Manager