How Krishna left a toxic workplace for a Director of Data Engineering role in four months

Krishna came to us wanting out of a toxic work environment and into something with better work life balance. Her search ran four months, across Q4 2024, and she landed a Director of Data Engineering role at Brown & Brown Insurance.

The quarter that is supposedly dead for hiring

Her search covered October to December, the period most candidates write off. It was not slow for her and it is not slow for our other clients. If anything the assumption helps, because a good share of the competition stops applying.

The questionnaire did work she had not done herself

This is the part she names as most valuable, and it is not the part anyone expects.

“Resume building and the whole LinkedIn profile building, all of that, was really a good experience. When I was answering all the questionnaire, the amount of things that I should have thought about, I hadn’t thought of in the past.”

Being asked structured questions about your own record surfaces material you have stopped noticing. That is the actual mechanism behind a repositioned resume, rather than better wording.

Two of our clients, one offer

An unusual detail worth keeping: another of our clients had been offered the same role and declined it, because they wanted a faster-paced environment. Krishna wanted the opposite, which is exactly why it suited her. The same job is a good outcome for one person and the wrong one for another, which is the argument for calibration rather than volume.

The search in numbers

• 4 months, across Q4 2024
• Director of Data Engineering at Brown & Brown Insurance
• Level: Director. Function: Data and Analytics