- Role landed
- Director-level role
- Time to offer
- within the same month
- Offers
- 2
He was stuck at manager level at FedEx, and approached us during one of the toughest markets there has been for software engineering leadership roles. He was hesitant, and asked us a long list of questions before signing up. He then landed two Director-level offers within the same month.
The gap was confidence at the level, not capability
His problem was not whether he could do a director job. It was whether he could present as a director in an interview, which is a different skill and a trainable one. Interview preparation was aimed squarely at that.
The feedback he started getting back from interviewers is the evidence it worked:
“They clearly told me, looks like you are very experienced in telling about yourself. That's a comment I got.”
The step that actually produced the offer
This is the most concrete tactical detail in any of these interviews, and it is small enough to copy.
“I applied, and then after a week I reached out to the recruiter. Immediately, on the same day she replied back telling me the day we were scheduling for the interview. Otherwise I wouldn't have got the director job.”
An application that had gone nowhere for a week became an interview the same day he followed up directly. The job he took existed only because someone chased it.
His verdict
“I'm 100% satisfied with this program. I feel that I definitely made a great decision.”
“If any of my friends reach out to me for an executive type of role, like a senior manager or director, without any hesitation I will refer them.”
The search in numbers
- Two Director-level offers inside the same month
- Moved up from a manager-level plateau at FedEx
- Level: Director. Function: Engineering
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