62,930 reasons to enter #ShoutOutToHelpOut competition
#ShoutOutToHelpOut is here to help graduates get there work seen by industry titans. Enter our competition to create our 2023 campaign. Open to students, graduates and creatives. DEADLINE: May 4th 2023.
In 2022 62,930 students graduated from creative arts courses. That’s a lot of competition flooding the market, each year, vying for attention. How do graduates stand out?
One way is free for students and graduates. Simply complete our form and get your work featured on ShoutOutToHelpOut as well as a ShoutOut to our social feeds. It’s open to all. There’s no curation, no selection process, no judges, no panel, zero discrimination.
Another way to standout is to enter our competition. Open to any student or graduate or creative team to create a campaign to get the attention of this years cohort of grads to sign-up and get their work on the ShoutOutToHelpOut website.
There will not be one winner, there will be many — because there’s never just one answer to creativity. This gives more of you even more opportunity to have your design seen by industry legends.
Read the brief. Make some awesome. Upload and complete the form.
Why grads should sign-up to ShoutOutToHelpOut?
Numbers don’t lie. Here’s our site Analytics report from the past 12 months:
- 27K Impressions (social alone)
- 5,559 followers (IG, Linkedin, Twitter, Fb combined)
- 1065 Talents shared to all channels
- 3.5K Posted to followers
- 3K Unique visitors
- 938 Engagements (social)
- 25+ Grads employed
What is #ShoutOutToHelpOut?
An online directory promoting students, graduates and creatives work; to help industry leaders and recruiters search for, connect with and hire. Sign-up is a free easy Google form to get your work featured on the site and shared across our social channels (total followers: 5,559).
To increase awareness and attract this years cohort of graduates to sign-up to our site, we’re running a design competition. Open to all; students and graduates. The brief is simple: Design a campaign for social and as an A3 poster (PDF format) to promote the site to graduates and reasons to sign-up (for free). To be emailed to schools and universities and shared online to print out and stick on their walls.
BACKGROUND
I started ShoutOutToHelpOut in July 2020, season one of the global pandemic. I started by sharing links to graduates websites on all my socials. Great, but twitter has the attention span of milli-seconds, I decided we needed an online directory.
Fast forward 12 months to August 2021 and we launched our website, ShoutOutToHelpOut. Currently featuring over 220 graduates from across the UK spanning twenty-two disciplines. Searchable by location or discipline, making it easy to find talent wherever you are.
FOR GRADUATES
Graduates complete a simple Google Form, including their name, Linkedin, website, University, relocation, an interesting fact about themselves and one image to best represent their work. It’s simple and free.
FOR INDUSTRY
Search and filter talent by discipline, location, oldest>latest, Alphabetical making it easier to find talent nearest to you.
FOR EVERYONE — PODCAST
We launched our first series of the #ShoutOutToHelpOut Podcast. Available on Google, Apple and Spotify featuring creative team Charlotte and Lucy from Grey London. Creative partners Mary Buzbee and Lauren Meadows from Kansas City, Copy Chief Vikki Ross, recruiters Emma Head and Anna Smith and Norwegian-based, Polish born Master Puppeteer Dominika Sira.
Series two features Paul Mellor (Mellor&Smith), former Adland turned client side, Clare Petzel, Murray Allan (CD at Grey London), former Tomato founder, designer, artist and author Graham Wood and force du jour Jo Wallace (Global ECD, Media Monks).
