From the tools to the classroom. Twenty years in the making.

It starts with a mechanic.

For more than twenty years, our founder's father earned his living as a mechanic. Proper, hands-on, time-served experience. The kind you can't learn from a textbook and can't fake in an interview. He knew engines the way most people know their own street.

Then he made a decision that changed two generations of our family. He walked out of the workshop and into an FE college, and he spent the next twenty years teaching motor vehicle engineering to young people who wanted to do what he'd done.

Twenty years at the front of a classroom.

Growing up, education wasn't an abstract thing in our house. It was dinner-table conversation. It was hearing about the apprentice who finally got it, the student nobody else believed in who passed his Level 3, the ex-pupils who'd stop him in the street years later to say thanks.

We watched what happens when someone who has genuinely done the job teaches it. Students listen differently. They ask different questions. They leave ready for real work, because they were taught by someone who has actually done real work.

And we also saw the other side. Colleges struggling for years to fill posts like his, because the people who could do the job brilliantly were still out on the tools, and nobody was going out to find them.

So that's the business we built.

Pineapple Talent exists to repeat that journey, deliberately and at scale. We find experienced construction and engineering professionals and connect them with the FE colleges that desperately need them, and with the commercial employers building the projects this country depends on.

We're not generalists who added "education" to a long list of sectors last year. This is the world we come from. We know what a workshop sounds like, we know what a curriculum lead is up against, and we know exactly what it takes for someone to swap their site boots for a staff lanyard, because we watched it happen up close for twenty years.