When this Director of AI first spoke with us, he'd already stepped away from his job search once because the results simply weren't there.
“I did apply a few months ago... I was not hearing back. Especially at the leadership level, it's even more difficult to get good responses.”
Two companies that got him nowhere
To make matters worse, he'd already paid two companies that promised to help. We keep getting reminded of our mediocre competition time and again.
“I've had like two other companies pitch this idea. They said they only charge a thousand or five hundred upfront and then I paid them and they did some work on my resume and profile. But then it didn't get me anywhere.”
After that experience, he wasn't even sure where the problem was.
“I don't know if it's my resume, it's my LinkedIn profile. I don't know what it is.”
Exactly the background companies say they want
The interesting part was that he had exactly the kind of background companies say they want.
He had joined his current firm when there was no data strategy, built the roadmap, secured executive buy-in, and grew the organization from 10 engineers to more than 50 across three geographies.
Now that everything was running smoothly, he was ready for another challenge.
“All of these initiatives are in sort of autopilot... so I am looking out for my next.”
Still, he was understandably skeptical.
Having already been burned by career services, he questioned whether paying upfront would simply lead to another disappointment. But there wasn’t much left to doubt once we offered him a guaranteed service that would continue until we landed him an offer.
38 interviews and a Senior Director of AI role
Once we got started, the difference was immediate.
Over the course of the search, he landed 38 interviews with companies including:
- Netflix
- Atlassian
- JPMorgan Chase
- Mastercard
- HubSpot
- Autodesk
- Waymo
- Capital One
- Dolby Laboratories
- Equinix
- ServiceTitan
- Gilead Sciences
...along with dozens of other Director, Senior Director and VP-level opportunities.
He eventually accepted a Senior Director of AI position at a global Data Analytics firm with a $300,000 base salary. He’ll soon be building a state-of-the-art AI platform from the ground up.
Mission Accomplished.
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