Describe the role.
See who actually fits.
Glos People reads local CVs for skills and temperament, then ranks people against your brief — including the ones who aren't job hunting. You see the evidence behind every score before you spend a penny on contact.
Reach the people who aren't looking
Most of the good ones are employed, happy enough, and will never answer an advert. They're here in stealth — hidden from their boss, findable by you.
Your offer does the tempting
Write your culture, flexibility and progression once. Every approach leads with it, matched against what that particular person said matters to them. You're not advertising a vacancy, you're making a case.
A brief, not a boolean search
Paste your job spec or describe the role, the team and the kind of person who'd thrive. No keyword syntax, no filters to learn.
Candidates say what move they're after
Same again, step up, step back, new kind of work or new sector. So you can go looking for someone climbing, or someone bringing transferable skills into your world — not just the obvious like-for-like.
Ranked on job match, vibe and salary fit
One Suitability score per person, built from what they've actually done, how they come across, their sector and what they want paid — with the panel showing exactly how it was reached.
Salary fit in plain numbers
Candidates are never hidden for being above budget. You see 'within your budget' or '6–10% above your job's wage', colour-coded, and can filter by band.
Software and tools, hit by hit
Name the software that matters — Xero, Revit, HubSpot or SolidWorks are just examples — and we show which candidates have it and which don't, as chips rather than buried prose.
Shortlists grouped by job
Save candidates against a named job, compare them side by side, and track who's been contacted, who's replied and who's interested.
The person you want isn't reading job adverts.
They're doing the job somewhere else, they're reasonably content, and they'd never risk being seen on a job board. On Glos People they can sit in stealth — hidden from their employer, but still matched to your role and still reachable by you.
Because they're not applying, an advert won't move them. Your offer might. You write your employer story once — culture, flexibility, progression, the honest bits — and every approach leads with the parts that line up with what that person told us they want. They read it under an alias, in their own time, with nothing to lose by saying no.
Every card shows its workings.
This is what a result looks like. One score at the top, the four things that made it underneath, and a band telling you how close the job itself is.
Eight years running the office for a Gloucester engineering firm. Wants a step up into operations. Xero and Sage day to day.
- Suitability
The one big number. Everything below, added together.
- Job match
How closely what they've actually done lines up with your spec.
- Vibe
How well their temperament fits the person you described.
- Industry
How much of their career sits in your sector.
- Salary fit
What they want, against what the job pays.
- Direct match
They've done this job. Adjacent means a close cousin of it; Transferable means the skills carry across. Direct matches always sit above the rest.
Change your mind, the list re-orders.
Above the results are four controls. Industry and Vibe can each be Excluded (shown but ignored), Included (nudges the order) or Required (only those people). Salary fit filters by band. Move intent shows only the people after a step up, a new sector, or a new kind of work using transferable skills. Nothing needs re-searching — the ranking changes as you click.
- Sarah M.84%
- James O.81%
- Copper Thrush 8376%
- Priya N.72%
Industry is shown on every card but doesn't affect the order.
- James O.84%
- Priya N.81%
- Sarah M.76%
- Rowan Finch 4272%
Switch Industry to Required and the list re-orders instantly — no new search, nothing to re-type.
Searching is free. You only pay to make contact.
Search, score and shortlist as much as you like. You only spend credits when you approach a candidate — one approach is 2 credits (£20) — and it unlocks that candidate for good, including their full CV and their contact details once they say they're interested.
Every new employer account starts with 10 credits — five approaches on us.
One approach costs 2 credits, and a credit is £10. It unlocks that candidate permanently.
Bulk top-ups: 10 credits (5 approaches) for £90, 40 credits (20 approaches) for £340.
No subscription, no per-hire fee, no commission. If a candidate says no thanks you get half back (£10) — and if they don't reply within 7 days you get a full refund. If they reply "yes, if…", negotiating costs nothing extra.
Try it with a real brief.
Paste a job spec and see your ranked shortlist in under a minute. Five free approaches are already in your wallet.
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