17 Years at Cisco. $500K at Google Next.
After 17 years at Cisco, Radhika was laid off and struggling to get noticed with an outdated, responsibility-heavy résumé. By narrowing her target roles, rebuilding her résumé around quantified impact, repositioning LinkedIn, and strengthening her leadership narrative, she secured two senior offers within 90 days, including a ~$500K Engineering Manager role at Google.
Client outcome
- Total compensation$500K+41% vs. previous role
- Competing offers2Both above target band
- Interview loops5Opened after repositioning
- Days to signed offer90From strategy call to signed offer
Where it started
After 17 years at Cisco, Radhika was laid off and struggling to get noticed with an outdated, responsibility-heavy résumé. By narrowing her target roles, rebuilding her résumé around quantified impact, repositioning LinkedIn, and strengthening her leadership narrative, she secured two senior offers within 90 days, including a ~$500K Engineering Manager role at Google.
What we changed
- Rewrote the resume around measurable impact so Radhika's experience led, not the noise recruiters were stuck on.
- Rebuilt LinkedIn for the keywords hiring managers actually search for in engineering management roles.
- Replaced volume applications with targeted outreach to teams researched in advance.
- Ran mock interview loops until the narrative matched the level of the roles being pursued.
How the search ran
- Week 1Positioning reset
Resume and LinkedIn rebuilt around impact, not chronology.
- Week 3Targeted outreach
Warm messages to pre-researched teams instead of mass applying.
- Week 7Loops open
5 interview loops running in parallel.
- Week 13Offers, one signed
Landed at Google at $500K.
