How Daryl landed a Director of Revenue Technology role in 40 days, after a year out of work

Daryl had been out of work for close to a year. He had already paid for other career coaching and given a tough market a real go, with little to show for it. He landed a Director of Revenue Technology role at Anaplan within 40 days of onboarding with us.

A year of effort, then 40 days

Forty days after a year of getting nowhere is a jump that needs explaining, so here is the honest version. Nothing about Daryl's experience changed in those 40 days. What changed was what he was aiming at and how he was being described.

By his own account he had been all over the place with his applications before he came to us. The first thing we did was narrow his value proposition down to a specific niche, and then carry that same story consistently through his resume, his networking and the way he talked about himself in interviews.

Targeted networking beats volume

“Our targeted approach to networking yielded him some key interviews where he was a really strong fit, despite a thousand other candidates competing for the same roles.”

This is the thing so many of our clients end up describing from their own side. Sitting in a queue as one of a thousand applicants is a completely different experience from showing up as a known name with your fit already spelled out.

What he says he would change

“He wished that he had started sooner.”

He actually found us by watching our clients' results roll past on LinkedIn for a while before he ever reached out, which says something, given he had already been burned by other coaching services.

The search in numbers

• Close to a year out of work, including other paid career coaching, with little success
• Director of Revenue Technology at Anaplan, within 40 days of onboarding
• Level: Director. Function: IT and Enterprise Systems