- Role landed
- Senior leadership roles
- Time to offer
- 8 months
- Interviews landed
- 24
Barret came to us out of a senior manager role at Velocity. In his own words, the place was driving him into the ground. He worked around the clock, projects bleeding into the night, the next morning, the weekends. When he raised it with his leadership, what he got back was no more money, no more help, suck it up. He was on $125,000, and the money did not come close to covering what the job was taking out of him.
Over eight months we landed him 24 senior leadership interviews.
Hiring managers told him the outreach was why he got seen
The best part is that this came from the people on the other side of the table, not from us.
“I even had people on interviews be like, oh, you reached out, and this is how your name got moved to the top.”
He had tried on his own first, LinkedIn Premium and all, and he is blunt about how different it felt:
“It was more just wandering for jobs. Y'all really narrowed that down, applied for quality jobs.”
Who he thinks it is actually for
“People that are trying on their own but not getting interviews. The casual applying on LinkedIn here and there, and then saying they can't find another job. People who are just busy and can't spend the time to look at that many jobs, but still want to put in the effort. I couldn't put in as much time as y'all do applying for every job.”
He also told us what he did not like
We asked what he did not like too, because a testimonial with no rough edges in it tells you very little.
“At the beginning I was a little confused about where I needed to put notes, because it was a bit of a different process when I started versus now. The thing I would have recommended, y'all have already fixed.”
What he weighed before signing
“Just the unknown. It wasn't cheap, so you want to make sure it'll be worth it. It's the unknown of, I hope this company does what they say they can do. And at the end, very much, y'all did what you said you could do.”
The search in numbers
- 24 senior leadership interviews over 8 months
- Came from a $125,000 senior manager role with no route to more pay or more help
- Level: Manager and Principal. Function: IT and Enterprise Systems
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