WHY HATS
For candidates

BRING YOUR WHOLE STORY. FIND YOUR NEXT OPPORTUNITY.

Your skills, experiences and hopes for what comes next all have a place here. Build your WHY Profile once, keep it up to date and use it to apply for roles with workplaces you want to get to know.

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Your WHY Profile

A profile with room for you.

Share what you choose to tell a hiring team. Your profile brings that context together, ready for you to review when you apply.

How you work

Your assessment answers suggest working preferences and conversation themes you can explore in your own words.

Your skills and experiences

Skills you want to share and moments you’re proud of, from work or other parts of your life.

Your working preferences

Availability, venue types and the support or working arrangements that matter to you.

What you're looking for next

Your goals, so employers can see the bigger picture before the first conversation.

How matching works

GET TO KNOW THE OPPORTUNITY

The person, the venue and the role each bring something to the conversation. HATS helps you explore all three.

01

You build your profile.

Share skills, preferences and experiences through short prompts. No CV is required.

02

Venues build theirs.

Explore what employers share about their team, ways of working and available roles.

03

We line up the person, the venue and the role.

See useful context alongside the pay, hours and practical requirements of a role.

04

You see the context, then decide.

Read the opportunity, choose whether to apply and prepare questions about what matters to you.

Your questions and choices matter at every step.

FIND YOUR PLACE

Read what venues share about their team, working environment and open roles. Use that picture to decide which opportunities you would like to explore.

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Support for the conversation ahead

Follow your applications

See your applications, messages and interview arrangements together in your dashboard.

Arrive with your own questions

Interview preparation helps you explore the team, support and role, as well as think about experiences you may want to share.

Know what you’re sharing

On an application, your name, profile photo and email address stay protected until you accept an interview. Accepting a separate connection request shares your name with that venue in People worth meeting. You choose whether employers can discover your anonymised profile.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT CONVERSATION?

Create your free WHY Profile and take the next step towards a workplace you want to be part of.