SONIA SARAH, FROM BRADFORD:

Smart Works clients and single parent Sonia Sarah has been unemployed since taking a career break to have her family. She is now an equality, diversity and inclusion manager for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

“I was welcomed in, and had a coaching exercise before my interview, and it worked wonders. I felt ready, I felt prepared, because I hadn’t had a formal job interview for 15 years, so it was massive for me.

“Life is in a better place. I just thought, no one takes your intellectual capacity away. I am going to go for this job. I am going to try my best.”