Field Guides
Practical, personal guides to every stage of the job-search process, from CV architecture to interview prep. Written from inside the process, not above it.
A free resource centre for the people on both sides of recruitment, marketing, HR, finance, events and operations. Field guides, dispatches, a monthly Loudspeaker email, and now a full stream of plain-English apprenticeship guidance: how to make them work for your business, the 2025-26 funding changes, and the business case. Written by people who've spent twenty years in the industry. No subscription. No premium tier. No catch.
Free for everyone, always, from CVs and interviews for jobseekers, to embedding apprenticeships into your HR strategy for employers. Plus two paid AI tools for anyone who'd rather we just did it.
Field guides and dispatches, free forever. Plus two paid AI tools for anyone who'd rather we just did it.
Practical, personal guides to every stage of the job-search process, from CV architecture to interview prep. Written from inside the process, not above it.
Opinion, data and explainers, AI CVs, the EU AI Act, and why the recruitment model is overdue a rethink.
A monthly email from the recruitment frontline, with an editor's view. Free to subscribe, free to share.
Paste your CV and the job spec. Get back a fully researched, tailored interview prep report, ready in minutes.
Paste your CV and the advert. Get back a rewritten, honesty-checked CV in a design you choose, ready in minutes.
We give it away because the whole process works better when both sides understand each other.
Free, alwaysEverything above is free, and always will be. But if you've got an interview coming up and want it handled properly, company research, sharp questions, a tailored pitch, the lot, we'll build it for you. £15 a report, less in a pack, most of the way there in minutes.
Paste your CV and the advert. We rewrite it to that exact role, in your own words, pulling out the real things you've done that make you right for it. A hard honesty check means nothing is invented, and the usual AI cliches are stripped out. Then you pick from 21 designs and download as Word or PDF. From £5 for 4 CVs. No subscription.
I built it after nine years in recruitment, when I found myself on the other side of the desk. One tool to rewrite my CV, one to prep for the interview. A week later, I'd landed the job. Same tools. Your turn.
The apps are for speed. But if you'd rather talk it through, your CV, an interview you're dreading, or which roles to even go for, book a one-to-one coaching call. Nine years in recruitment, on both sides of the desk. We'll prep your interview or rework your CV together, live.
Why Home Counties businesses are struggling to recruit in 2026, 280 applications per role, an 8-week time-to-hire, and every claim referenced across 28 sources.
Stop treating apprenticeships as a programme filed three folders deep under "Early Careers". The four barriers, how to beat each one, the 2025 and 2026 funding changes and the business case. And why the bold ones already have.
7 min read · 6 sources cited · Free, always
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. No subscription, no premium tier, no upsell.
65% of UK job seekers have been ghosted by a recruiter. 86% say it left them depressed. Our dispatch on why the silence does more damage than the rejection ever could, and what actually needs to change.
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