Stop applying for jobs.
Start creating your own way in.
Screw the Job Boards is a 12-week group coaching programme for creative professionals who know they have more to offer than any job application can show — and are ready to prove it
Most job searches end in silence. This programme shows you a different door; one you build yourself, using your strengths, your research, and real work delivered to real people at the company you want to work for.
The hiring process wasn't designed to find the best person. It was designed to manage volume.
You've done everything right. Tailored your CV, written cover letters, sat for interviews. And in the process you've felt the quiet indignity of compressing yourself into a format designed to make you interchangeable with everyone else.
You're still in the same role. Still scrolling LinkedIn. Still watching people less capable land roles you'd be brilliant in. And the last time you sent something into the void and heard nothing, you thought, "Ah f*ck it. What's the point."
What you want is someone to look at the full picture of what you offer and say: "We need exactly this person, exactly as they are." You want to feel like the author of what comes next. To look back at 85 and know: I did that on purpose.
The problem isn't you. It's the hiring process. Most hiring decisions are made before the role goes live, assembled through relationships, vibes, and inside knowledge. The process was designed to confirm a decision made upstream of it, not to surface the best person.
But there is another way into your dream role. And it's the one you build yourself.
Three hiring managers told me something most job seekers never get to hear.
Before building Screw the Job Boards, I spent several weeks talking to founders and hiring managers.
Darren Cockburn, who built his way into senior roles at the BBC and Travalyst across a thirty-year career. Lauren Jones, fresh off 350 applications for a single role at her 30-person agency. Chris Monk, COO across three companies including Zach D. Films, who sometimes hires ten people in a single week.
The volume is crushing. Lauren had to stop reading résumés and go straight to LinkedIn. Chris described a thousand applications and only thirty seconds for each.
"I'm human," he said. "It could be 8pm. There's a really strong chance that I miss good people just through bad luck."
What breaks through are relationships. The person Lauren was about to hire had reached out a year earlier, just to ask about her work. "Dream job is a long game," she said. "If you build a network of people who work at the places you want to work, and you keep in touch with them, that's when things really work out."
Darren described the same principle with "the informational interview" - the conversation you have not to apply but to understand. "People will talk to you," he said, "if you come with some credibility and a genuine question about what they're dealing with." The advent of AI has only made that rarer and therefore more powerful.
Lauren's closing words are the closest thing to a thesis for this programme: "I want to hire a human being. If your résumé reads like a robot, I'm not interested. The more unique you are as a person, the more you stand out. I stopped thinking of my work self and my real self as separate things. I brought them together. That attracted people to me."
The hiring process doesn't reward the best candidate. It rewards the most visible one. This programme is designed to make you that person.
Introducing
A 12-week group coaching programme for creative professionals who are done with the conventional job search and want to create their own way into a role.
There is always another door into a role. But most people never find it.
Instead of fitting yourself to a role that was probably already filled, you'll learn to build your way in through three moves:
- Getting clear on who you are and what your strengths are
- Building real relationships inside the organisation you want to join
- Creating leverage by delivering work that speaks for itself
By the end of twelve weeks, you won't just have a plan. You'll have done the work, had the conversations, and put something real in front of the people who matter.
Sounds great, sign me upTwelve weeks. Nine modules. One very different job search.
STAGE 1
First, build the foundation that most job searches skip entirely
- Module 1: You’ll build your Professional Signature, clarifying your values, strengths, favourite problems, and the kind of growth you actually want.
- Module 2: You’ll identify a specific target company and role that genuinely fits you.
- Module 3: You’ll map the key decision-makers inside that organisation. The people who actually have the power to let you in.
By the end of this stage, you won’t be aimlessly browsing any more. You’ll be moving with intention towards a specific destination.
STAGE 2
Then, become a known person inside the organisation before any process begins
- Module 4: You’ll research your target organisation with the depth of someone who already works there. You’ll understand its strategy, its pressures, where it actually needs help.
- Module 5: You’ll design an outreach approach that builds genuine credibility, so that every interaction feels intelligent, never desperate.
- Module 6: You’ll have at least three meaningful conversations with the people who influence decisions, so you can gather the insights you need before any formal process begins.
By the end of this stage, you’ll no longer be an anonymous applicant. You’ll be a known person inside the organisation you want to join.
STAGE 3
Finally, deliver real work, propose the role, and negotiate from a position of strength
- Module 7: You’ll design a piece of real work scoped carefully to match your strengths against a genuine need the organisation has.
- Module 8: You’ll deliver it to a professional standard, demonstrating precisely what you can do before anyone has asked you to do it.
- Module 9: You’ll propose a role or a trial engagement from a position of legibility and strength, built around the value you've already demonstrated.
By the end of this stage, you won’t be merely hoping to be chosen. You’ll be showing — with evidence — why you're the inevitable choice.
The job search is one of the loneliest processes there is. But not this one! In Screw the Job Boards you'll work alongside a small, intimate cohort of people who understand exactly where you are because they're there too.
I’m in, let’s do this togetherIf you have questions about the programme, feel free to drop me an email and we can arrange a chat.
By the end of this programme, you'll know:
✅ How hiring decisions are actually made, and why the application process is almost never where they happen.
✅ How influence flows inside organisations, and how to identify and reach the people who actually matter.
✅ How trust is built deliberately, and what outreach looks like when it's designed to feel intelligent rather than desperate.
✅ How to read a company's real needs, not the ones in the job description.
✅ How to translate your strengths into a project your dream company genuinely needs.
✅ How to propose a role from a position of demonstrated strength.
And you'll have stopped believing:
❌ That keeping your head down and applying harder is a strategy.
❌ That the only legitimate way in is through a formal application.
❌ That reaching out to people you haven't met is desperate.
❌ That you have to wait to be chosen.
❌ That putting your best work forward and not getting the role means it wasn't good enough.
Everything you need. Designed around full-time work.
Screw the Job Boards runs for 12 weeks, beginning Wednesday 22 April 2026, and is designed to fit around full-time work. Cohort one has 8 places.
Over the course of the programme, you'll move through nine modules across three phases, including:
- Live group training and coaching sessions with Harrison throughout the 12 weeks.
- Recordings of every live session, so you never miss anything.
- A private podcast feed of those recordings, so you can keep learning on the go.
- Written resources and templates for every stage of the process, including a Professional Signature process, company research guide, a message anatomy framework, and a project scoping methodology.
- A Trello board set up and ready to use, so you have a clear, structured view of where you are in the process at every stage.
- Access to a private community where the cohort works, shares, and supports each other.
- Organised peer coaching sessions with people who are in exactly the same process as you.
Whatever happens, you finish with valuable, reusable assets.
Screw the Job Boards doesn't promise a specific outcome. No programme honestly can. What it promises is that you will show up differently — more clearly, more strategically, more fully yourself — than you have in any job search before. And that everything you produce along the way is yours to keep.
A Professional Signature
clarifying your values, strengths, and direction that most people spend an entire career never building.
A piece of real work
delivered to a professional standard, that exists in the world and can speak for itself.
A reusable methodology
that you can apply to any organisation, at any point in your career, for the rest of your life.
Personally, I have never got a job through a formal application process.
For 10+ years I worked as an electrician and hated it, but it felt like the responsible choice. My creative ambition was there the whole time but I kept it hidden, until I stopped protecting it and started building towards it instead.
I crowdfunded my master's degree when I couldn't afford the tuition. I built my way into roles at the Royal College of Art, at Act Two (a creative accelerator), and at Write of Passage (arguably the most successful writing school on the internet) - all without a formal application process.
At my own startup, I hired people who came to me this way too. I've been on both sides of the hiring equation, and I know how rare and compelling it is when someone shows up with genuine knowledge of your organisation, a clear point of view, and work that speaks for itself.
As I moved into coaching, I kept hearing the same thing from different people. Competent but restless creatives describing the same painted doors, the ghosting, the indignity of the conventional process.
The paths I'd taken shared a common logic. It wasn't luck or personality. There was a method, even if I'd never called it that.
So I decided to test it properly. I worked with my wife Corina on her job search, applying the approach step by step. A framework with clear stages emerged, one that produced real results. That's when I knew it was a programme.
Still have questions? Let's talk.
The coaching experience behind Screw the Job Boards.
This programme runs for the first time in April 2026. There are no alumni yet.
What does exist is over a decade of coaching, mentoring, and working alongside creative professionals at every stage of their journey. The methodology in this programme has been developed, tested, and refined through that work. The people below have been through some version of it.
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"You turned the conversations from focus externally on the space I could inhabit to something a lot more internally focused — where no matter what space I was in, it was going to be a natural extension of me and my instincts and what makes me happy in the way I want to live. The switch was elegant. The switch was surprising. Something really happened. Beyond what I had expected."
— Jerry Johnston, Design Principle
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"Those 'aha' moments that happen during conversation are unique. Just bouncing ideas gave me access to a part of my brain that is usually difficult to access alone."
— Justin Nothling, Entrepreneur
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"His mentorship helped me not only clarify the core concepts behind my project but also find confidence in my own voice and perspectives."
— Jeremy Mathew, Artist
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"Harrison absolutely aced the editor exam during our training, and has helped two cohorts of students around a range of technical and psychological blocks. His experience in art school enables him to give a perspective shift to anyone he works with."
— Michael Dean, Editor-in-Chief, Write of Passage
Ready to build your own way into your dream job? Join cohort one now.
This is the only time Screw the Job Boards will run at the founding price of £1,247. The price increases for cohort two (in September 2026).
30-DAY FULL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
If you begin the programme and decide within the first 30 days that it isn't right for you, you'll receive a full refund.
This programme is for you if:
👍 You're early-to-mid-career, employed, and not in crisis, but aware that something important is being left unused. You have around 5-10 years of accumulated experience that doesn't always fit neatly into a job title.
👍 You think originally, work across domains, and do your best work when you're allowed to bring more of yourself to it.
👍 You're willing to do the inner work alongside the outer work. The programme starts with who you are, not what the market wants. If that order makes sense to you, you're in the right place.
👍 You believe (even faintly) that there might be a more intelligent route into the work you want than submitting an application and hoping.
👍 You're serious enough about your own development to have invested in it before - financially, or in time, or both.
This programme is not for you if:
👎 You want to start your own business. This programme is about finding the right organisation to contribute to, not building your own.
👎 You're super early in your career. Without a meaningful body of work behind you, there's nothing yet to make legible to the market. Come back in a couple years.
👎 You measure success primarily by salary or status. The programme will help you find work that fits, but fit and compensation are different conversations.
👎 You want the tactical playbook without the reflection. The tactics are here, and they're rigorous. But they're built on self-knowledge. One without the other doesn't work.
👎 You already know exactly what you want and have the courage and agency to go and get it. Genuinely, this programme is for the person still finding their way to that, not the person already there.
Who's behind Screw the Job Boards?
Hey—I'm Harrison Moore. I spent my teens and early twenties as a qualified electrician, earning a decent wage but feeling pissed off and ashamed about wasting my potential.
But I didn't wait for permission to change that. I enrolled in a foundation art degree while working nights on the London Underground to cover the cost. A year later, Central Saint Martins. Four years after that, the Royal College of Art – funded by a crowdfunding campaign I ran because student finance wouldn't cover it.
I built a tech startup for five years, raised venture capital, hired a team, and watched it fail. It was humbling in the specific way that only real failure can be. I don't think you can teach what I teach without having lost something that mattered to you.
Since then I've worked as the Dedicated Writing Mentor at David Perell's Write of Passage, as resident coach at Act Two (a creative accelerator), and as a coach to creative professionals navigating significant transitions.
I'm currently undertaking my ICF accreditation in Applied Positive Psychology Coaching under the supervision of Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, one of the leading researchers in the field.
I have been travelling full-time for the last 3.5 years with my wife Corina, which is its own ongoing experiment in building your own road.
None of my path looked like a plan from the inside. But I've come to believe that following your inexplicable interests is a principled way to live, because it's the most accurate compass to a life that's genuinely yours. That's what Screw the Job Boards is all about.
I hope to see you in-session!
— Harrison 👨🎨
Frequently asked questions
The job market is broken. What's the point?
I don't really know what I have to offer.
What if my target company is very large, or very small?
Companies already ask for unpaid take-home assignments. How is this different?
I don't want to look desperate reaching out to people I don't know.
What if I do all this work and nothing happens?
I'm too busy.
How many people are in the programme?
Have you actually led anyone else through this, or is it just what's worked for you?
What gives you the authority to teach this?
Who is this programme designed for (and not for)?
If you still have questions or want to chat about what the programme can do for you, send me an email. Or if you're ready to commit, you can secure your place in cohort one now.
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