Free. Without exception. Without a catch. Ever.
We’re a free resource centre for the people on both sides of recruitment. We give away everything we know because we think the whole process works better when both sides understand each other.
Shout started from a fairly simple observation. The recruitment industry produces a lot of content about itself market reports, whitepapers, thought leadership posts but almost none of it is written for the people on the other side of the process. The candidates. The hiring managers who don’t do this for a living. The people who just want to know what actually happens to their application after they send it.
We’ve worked in and around recruitment long enough to know what a recruiter looks for in the first twelve seconds of reading a CV. What a hiring manager notices in an interview that they’ll never say to a candidate’s face. Why a job advert with fourteen bullet points of requirements gets fewer good applications than one with four. We wrote it down and gave it away.
That’s the whole thing. There’s no subscription, no premium tier, no upsell. The field guides are free because the information is more useful in circulation than behind a paywall.
Practical, personal guides to every stage of the job-search process. From CV architecture to intro videos to interview prep. Written from inside the process, not above it.
Browse the field guides →A weekly email on the recruitment frontline. Features, field notes and a banned-word of the week. Written by people who’ve spent twenty years in the industry. Free to subscribe, free to share.
Subscribe →Market analysis before the brief, not after it. Every Shout brief begins with a Talent Insight Report a salary landscape analysis, candidate pool assessment and employer brand review for the role in question.
Request a sample report →CV templates, the banned-word poster, the reasons-for-leaving cheatsheet. The things we’d hand someone if they walked into the office and asked for help. All free to download and share.
See all tools →The short version. The longer version is available in The Dispatch, in the field guides and in the way we respond to emails.
Questions about the field guides, feedback on something we’ve written, or a polite disagreement about one of our strongly held views we genuinely read every email.
[email protected] →If you’re a business looking to hire either for a one-off role or ongoing recruitment support or if you want to commission a custom Talent Insight Report, this is the conversation to start.
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