I Gave You the Straight Read. Now It’s Your Turn.
Write it the way you’d write a LinkedIn recommendation: what you hired me for, what I told you, and what changed. Specifics beat adjectives. “She was great” doesn’t help the next person. “I’d lost three final rounds and won the fourth” does.
- Where your search stood when you hired me
- Something specific I told you, caught, or changed
- What happened next: interviews, an offer, a higher number, a decision you finally made
- Who you’d tell to hire me
These show the level of detail that helps. Use your own words and your own story.
I’d made it to the final round three times and lost every one. Angela ran a mock panel and showed me exactly where I was losing them: I answered the question they asked and never the one behind it. Two weeks later I got the offer. If you keep coming in second, hire her.
I’d sent out more than 100 applications and heard almost nothing back. Angela’s audit showed me my resume read like a job description instead of a record of results, and she told me which fixes mattered first. Recruiters started calling within a month. Her feedback was blunt, and it was exactly what I needed.
I was ready to take the first number. Angela pulled posted pay for comparable roles, showed me where the offer actually sat, and gave me the words to ask for more. I came out with a higher base and a signing bonus. I never would have asked without her.
After my layoff I couldn’t decide whether to go back to operations or make the jump to something new. Angela compared both paths against real postings and pay, and she was honest that one would take longer than I hoped. That honesty saved me months. She has sat in the rooms where hiring decisions get made, and it shows.
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