The job market can be hard to navigate, stressful, and exhausting. A long job search can become a vicious circle: stress makes it harder to show up well; poor results then create more stress. We aim to interrupt that cycle.
Creating pathways to income and contribution
Our aim is simple: provide a supportive place to think, learn, and act so people see the value in their own experience, build confidence, and take practical steps towards income, meaningful work, or another positive next step.
Managing the stress of work, job seeking, and career change
We start with the person, not the gap: helping people build confidence and maintain their health and day-to-day life, especially when a career has been interrupted by redundancy, illness, caring, burnout, or a change in direction.
STG core
Employability, productivity, and upskilling
Our workshops and webinars are designed to update digital and remote-working skills, and build everyday habits that boost employability and productivity.
Skills training
Who we help
- Over-50s returners and experienced professionals facing ageism or re-entry barriers.
- People returning after burnout, long-term sickness, caring responsibilities, or redundancy.
- Career changers who need to identify and explain their transferable experience.
- Freelancers, contractors, and small business owners dealing with uncertainty or isolation.
- School leavers and graduates navigating the job market for the first time.
- People with complex, portfolio, or non-linear work histories.
Work with us
We work with organisations that want to help people through work transitions or create fairer routes into paid opportunities. Relevant audiences include:
- Employers considering sponsored places, workshops, or transition support.
- Organisations managing redundancy, restructuring, or return-to-work support.
- Community organisations, charities, and CICs supporting people who face barriers to work.
- Organisations that can offer paid employment, projects, or contract opportunities through a people-centred approach.
Meet the team
The inspiration for founding Surviving The Gap came from witnessing and experiencing the tough times many job seekers of all ages and skill levels are currently experiencing.
Collectively, we have years of experience with personal development, training in various self-help and support techniques, and experience as coaches and mentors to businesses and individuals. We have worked with some of the best facilitators in the world and travelled extensively to help deliver seminars.
Having experienced the same levels of stress in our job searches as everyone else, we feel well placed to do something to help others who are experiencing the same thing.
Funke Adebusuyi MSc, BA, PGCE, MCIPD
Co-founder
Our lead coach, Funke is a passionate Learning and Organisational Development Specialist with many years’ experience in large multi-site public and voluntary sector organisations including children’s charities, local government, education establishments and the NHS.
A life, career, and relationship coach, Funke is a qualified EFT and NLP practitioner in addition to holding a BA, MSc, PGCE and being a full member of the CIPD.
Mark Anfilogoff
Co-founder
Mark is a passionate advocate for personal growth and development with over thirty years’ experience helping individuals and organisations flourish.
Mark holds a BSc in Geophysics, an MSc in Management Consultancy and Organisational Change and is a member of the Institute of Leadership. He has undertaken training in EFT and NLP and is working towards accreditation in those fields.
