- Role landed
- Senior Director, Infrastructure and Security
- Company
- Allen Distribution
- Time to offer
- about 2 months
Ashok left his role at Symbotic during a stretch of leadership churn and restructuring. He had already run large-scale IT operations in demanding 24/7 environments, so experience was never the issue.
About two months after starting with us he accepted a Senior Director, Infrastructure and Security role at Allen Distribution, a mid-sized third-party logistics company expanding into robotics-based automation across around 30 locations.
Dozens of applications, six weeks, no interviews
It is worth being precise here, because this is the pattern almost every senior candidate describes. Nobody was ignoring Ashok because he lacked seniority. He was applying into a queue and hearing nothing back.
Before he came to us he had sent dozens of applications over about six weeks, got a handful of responses and landed no interviews at all. He also had no idea why.
What changed was leverage, not just effort
“The key here is, I'm not alone. There's a team behind me. Aside from all the other benefits, the volume of applications and the analysis that gets done really puts me on a pedestal. It arms me with all the ammunition I need from an interview standpoint, from an application standpoint, from a preparation standpoint. That raised the level way more than what I could have done on my own.”
What he is pointing at is the difference between doing the same thing harder and changing what the thing actually is. Applying and waiting is one exercise. Volume, real preparation, and someone else carrying the follow-up is a completely different one.
It moved faster than he expected
“To be honest, I wasn’t expecting some things to take this quickly. I thought it would take us 3 months or so.”
His own summary, recorded at the end of the search:
“I engaged with Wolf Mentoring about 2 months ago. They’ve gone above and beyond what they said that they would deliver, and I landed a position as Senior Director, Infrastructure and Security.”
How he found us
This one is worth telling because it was nobody's marketing plan. Someone dropped a link into his old high-school WhatsApp group.
“I am averse to Facebook, but somebody sent me a link in my high school WhatsApp group, and Varun’s comment popped up.”
The search in numbers
- Dozens of applications and zero interviews before starting, over about six weeks
- Senior Director, Infrastructure and Security at Allen Distribution, accepted in about 2 months
- Level: Director. Function: Platform and Infrastructure
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