Most of the new appointees are set to be brought on board by April 2024.

The UK colleagues BT plans to onboard (roughly 1,000) will be around BT’s hub sites in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Belfast, Ipswich and London, with the majority of new UK digital talent based outside London.

In India, BT will recruit around 1,800 new colleagues, centred around BT’s hubs in Bengaluru and Gurugram. Wherever possible, colleagues will be based out of one of BT’s new regional workspaces, where they can come together to collaborate when they need to.

BT is also continuing with its programme of up and re-skilling, including the development of an expansive learning resource, the BT Digital Campus, drawing on digital skills platforms as well as proprietary BT learning content, to ensure its existing talent can be at the “cutting edge” of digital technology.

To support the recruitment drive, BT is bolstering its digital recruitment capacity, under director of HR, digital, Mark Murphy, who said: “We’re hard at work transforming the way BT engages with talent as we add to the type of people we want in the heart of this new business unit.

“New arrivals will be immediately contributing to the progressive, collaborative, transformative ‘Digital Way’ at the heart of how it works.”

BT is focusing on entry talent, who could make up as many as 400 of the planned headcount, focused on apprentices, graduates, women returners and others starting their careers in digital.

The company is working with organisations like Code First Girls and 10,000 Black Interns and knows its success lies in working with a diverse range of talent.

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