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20 Hired in Data clients on the offers, raises, and pivots they landed. Click anyone below to jump straight to their story.

Mark
Client Story: Mark

From 3 Months Wasted Prep to a £21K Bump in 4 Months: How Mark Became Trainline DS Manager with 100% Inbound Interview Invites

Mark's challenges

  • Spent 3 months on unfocused prep without submitting a single application
  • Balancing fulltime work and an efficient approach
  • Underutilizing LinkedIn to attract interview invites

What we focused on

  • Repositioning his LinkedIn to attract interview requests
  • Cutting focus from 6 potential areas down to 3 core topics for deep prep
  • Installing clear frameworks to structure his thinking and demonstrate strategic value

Results

  • Secured a Trainline manager role with a £21K bump
  • All 5 of his interviews came from inbound recruiter outreach on LinkedIn
  • Massive visibility boost: profile now appears in 200+ searches per week
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Billy
Client Story: Billy

From Dozens of Applications and Almost No Replies to a Senior Data Scientist Offer: Four Times Faster Than Billy Planned

Billy's challenges

  • Applied to dozens of jobs with a conversion rate he called "quite low, if I’m honest"
  • Was not communicating his experience effectively on his CV or LinkedIn profile
  • No real experience handling recruiters or answering the questions they ask

What we focused on

  • How to respond to recruiters, using feedback from the community and directly from Egor
  • Rewriting the CV and LinkedIn profile, including putting revenue numbers on the CV
  • Candid, no-fluff feedback: 10 hours on the first CV rewrite, 20–30 hours on coding practice

Results

  • Senior Data Scientist offer in 1.5 months, when he had given himself six months
  • Revenue numbers on the CV took him from barely any replies to "a lot of interviews", including from big-name companies
  • The role hit every box from his first call: senior title, global company, and deploying machine learning models
Bach
Client Story: Bach

From Stuck and Underpaid to Senior & a 57% Pay Jump: How Bach Broke Career Stagnation in 3 Months

Bach's challenges

  • Stuck on his job for 5 years - underpaid and no promotion path
  • Applied for over a year with only 3 calls and zero offer
  • Demotivated by technical screen difficulty and lost self-esteem due to the long haul

What we focused on

  • Revamped his resume for crystal clarity and tailored impact
  • Interview preparation through modules on ML, A/B testing, statistics, and behavioral questions
  • Empowered him to negotiate for the first time

Results

  • Landed a 130K Senior Data Scientist role - a 57% pay increase
  • Negotiated successfully for the first time
  • Doubled interview conversion rate
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Adel
Client Story: Adel

From Overwhelmed to 2 Offers & a $50K Pay Jump: How Adel Transitioned to The Private Sector

Adel's challenges

  • Drowning in information but unsure how to take action
  • Struggling to transition from the public to private sector
  • Blending in instead of standing out in a crowded job market

What we focused on

  • Building a winner’s mindset to approach interviews with confidence
  • Optimizing his LinkedIn to double recruiter outreach
  • Mastering storytelling frameworks to turn interviews into offers

Results

  • 2 offers, one from a data consultancy and one from a startup
  • $50K salary jump, negotiated a later start date to maximize flexibility
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Masego
Client Story: Masego

From Business Intelligence Analyst to a Data Role at RBC: How Masego Got Hired Into a Job That Was Never Posted

Masego's challenges

  • Working as a business intelligence analyst but wanting to move back into data science
  • A long search with, in her words, “a lot of ups and downs”
  • Interview anxiety — an overthinker who never knew mid-interview how it was going

What we focused on

  • Finding a way into companies through referrals rather than cold applications
  • Rewriting the resume so those referrals actually converted into interviews
  • Posting on LinkedIn as often as possible to pull in inbound
  • Mock interviews for immediate feedback, to take the edge off the nerves

Results

  • Landed a data role at RBC, one of Canada’s biggest banks
  • 22% salary increase
  • Hired through a referral into a role that was never posted
  • Achieved significant inbound traffic from posting on LinkedIn
Teresa
Client Story: Teresa

From Resume Struggles and No Clear Direction to Senior Financial Analyst: How Teresa Landed the Role in 2 Months With a 20% Raise

Teresa's challenges

  • Unsure which specific direction to take the next step of the career
  • Resume writing was the biggest struggle
  • No idea how to set up a LinkedIn profile that works

What we focused on

  • Resume modules plus live rewrite sessions with Mandy: three full rewrites of the resume
  • LinkedIn profile modules and a live LinkedIn session with Egor
  • Interview modules as a refresher on existing interview experience

Results

  • Landed a Senior Financial Analyst role, the job Teresa wanted, about 2 months after joining
  • Around a 20% salary increase
  • The confidence to walk into interviews knowing, in Teresa’s words, “I will get an offer no matter what”
AM
Client Story: Aman

From Uncertainty to $295K at FAANG: How Aman Landed a Senior Data Scientist Role at Meta

Aman's challenges

  • Unclear expectations for different interview rounds
  • Struggling with product analytics questions
  • No structured approach for statistical prep, and not enough time to figure it out

What we focused on

  • Mock product analytics interviews using real FAANG-level questions and frameworks
  • Mastering core statistical concepts to answer with confidence
  • Step-by-step salary negotiation, down to the exact words to use

Results

  • 2 offers: Meta & DoorDash
  • Negotiated an extra $30K in stock + $25K signing bonus
  • Final TC: $295K
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Sehaj
Client Story: Sehaj

From a Year of No Traction to a New Offer & an $18K Raise: How Sehaj Landed a Machine Learning Engineer Job

Sehaj's challenges

  • A full year of job searching in 2024 with zero traction
  • Confidence shattered from constant rejection
  • Stuck in a consulting job with no growth

What we focused on

  • Reframing his consulting experience to match what data hiring managers actually look for
  • Targeted interview strategies to confidently tackle different types of interviews

Results

  • Landed an offer after months of frustration
  • $18K CAD salary increase, $120K TC
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Mansi
Client Story: Mansi

From a Year of Post-Graduation Burnout to FAANG: How Mansi Landed Her Dream Role at Meta

Mansi's challenges

  • Burnt out, overwhelmed, and feeling alone in her job search
  • Spinning her wheels for over a year post-graduation, despite watching every video and reading everything online
  • Fired from her internship with just 3 months left on her visa

What we focused on

  • Shifted from a scattered job search to a focused, FAANG-specific strategy
  • Used word-for-word networking scripts to land high-quality referrals - including Meta
  • Ran targeted mock interviews with detailed, personalized feedback to level up her problem-solving and communication

Results

  • 6-figure offer with Meta in under 3 months
Zack
Client Story: Zack

From 8 Months of Rejection to a $150K Offer: How Zack Landed a Business Analyst Role

Zack's challenges

  • Countless applications and some interviews, but always falling short
  • No clear idea of what to improve
  • Exhausted, frustrated, and doubting himself

What we focused on

  • Reframing his experience in reporting efficiency to match what target companies actually need
  • Mock interviews to sharpen both behavioral and technical skills

Results

  • Final round with eBay
  • $150K TC offer
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Souravi
Client Story: Souravi

From Rejections to Fullstack Senior DS: How Souravi Reinvented Herself After a 1-Year Career Break

Souravi's challenges

  • 1 year of career gap
  • Despite landing occasional interviews, none was converting past the initial stages
  • Endless rejections drained her confidence and she didn’t know what else she could possibly do

What we focused on

  • Confidence building and mindset shift
  • Reframing her stories so they were told from an interviewer’s point of view
  • Communicating with structure in every round to stand out as a must-hire

Results

  • Landed a Senior Data Scientist role at a major online entertainment company
  • Better-than-expected offer with strong salary + benefits
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Atera
Client Story: Atera

From Burnout and Hundreds of Rejections to $88K: How Atera Broke into Data from Biotech in 2 Months

Atera's challenges

  • 1000+ applications but only hearing crickets
  • Struggled to transition from biotech to data in a competitive market
  • Burnt out from 10 months of job search

What we focused on

  • Developing a game-changing mindset that projected confidence in interviews
  • Framing their experience to cater to data positions

Results

  • Landed an offer in under 3 months
  • Negotiated 3% in an entry-level civil services job where salary bands are pretty immovable
Abrar
Client Story: Abrar

From a Year of Rejections to a Post-doc Offer: How Abrar Landed His First Job in 2 Months

Abrar's challenges

  • 300+ applications but unable to grab recruiters’ attention
  • Struggled with coding screens as they were nothing like LeetCode
  • No clue what else he could possibly do

What we focused on

  • Recrafting his resume to get picked from the pile
  • Brushing up on ML core concepts so he knew exactly what to expect in interviews
  • Keeping him motivated and emotionally supported

Results

  • Interviews with 2 universities
  • Post-doc offer with SMU in AI and Machine Learning
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Satyajit
Client Story: Satyajit

From Feeling Lost with Academic Experience to an Industry Role in 3 Months

Satyajit's challenges

  • Translating research into industry language
  • Walking blind into interviews
  • Imposter syndrome - he worried his academic background would be seen as out of touch, or worse, irrelevant

What we focused on

  • Shutting down imposter syndrome
  • Making his resume industry-ready: quantified research experience & reframed results and impact
  • Giving him a full interview playbook - what to say, how to say it
  • Weekly feedback loops

Results

  • 75 job applications → 18 interviews
  • Offer from a SaaS company with a 12K EUR bump
Ahmed
Client Story: Ahmed

From 4 Months of Rejections to an Offer in 82 Days: How Ahmed Landed His First Job as a Data Scientist Consultant in Paris

Ahmed's challenges

  • 4 months of facing a competitive market in France for new grads
  • Feeling overwhelmed by rejections and conflicting advice on the internet
  • Financially tight, thinking about returning to home country

What we focused on

  • Confidence building and mindset shift
  • Tailored his resume, LinkedIn and portfolio to land interviews within 2 weeks
  • Reframed his interview approach to combine technical skills with business acumen to stand out from the crowd

Results

  • Landed a Data Scientist Consultant role in Paris, France at a consulting firm
  • Salary above €40,000 annually
  • Secured the job in under 3 months (82 days)
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Cristina
Client Story: Cristina

From Under 30K and Stuck in Spain to 82K Remote: How Cristina Landed a Senior ML Engineer Role at a Gaming Company

Cristina's challenges

  • Underpaid with no international exposure
  • No experience working in English or in a global environment
  • Job searching without a plan, daily structure, or clear direction
  • No feedback on mock sessions - unsure where to focus her efforts

What we focused on

  • Revamped her resume to lead with business metrics and real impact
  • Mock interviews to build confidence - got live feedback
  • Shifted framing from technical tasks to business outcomes
  • Structured game plan for her to follow

Results

  • Landed a Senior ML Engineer role - full pipeline ownership, fully remote
  • More than doubled base salary: 38K → 82K + negotiated bonus structure
  • Left with a repeatable system and confidence
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Phoebe
Client Story: Phoebe

From Sending Applications Into the Void to a 100K Offer: How Phoebe Made the Jump from Software Engineering to Senior Data Analyst

Phoebe's challenges

  • Stuck in a software engineering role with no clear path into data
  • Built a massive self-study roadmap and burned out before even starting
  • Sending applications into the void with no structured approach or game plan

What we focused on

  • Revamped resume to quantify impact and frame leadership
  • Interview frameworks to replace scripted answers with confident, results-oriented responses
  • Targeted her job search to the right data roles based on her actual skill set
  • Mindset shift

Results

  • Landed a Senior Data Analyst role
  • Salary jumped from 76K to 100K - a 32% increase
  • Interview confidence and frameworks gained
  • Left with clarity on her career direction
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Anthony
Client Story: Anthony

From Applying for Data Analyst Roles with No Results to Landing a Data Scientist Role at Visa: How Anthony Made the Jump in 4 Months

Anthony's challenges

  • Only landing Data Analyst interviews despite targeting Data Scientist roles
  • No strategy or structure behind his job search
  • Losing motivation doing it alone after months of rejections
  • Lacked confidence to believe he could land a DS title without production experience

What we focused on

  • Built two tailored resumes (Data Scientist + Data Analyst)
  • Repositioned his non-technical data experience toward DS roles
  • Interview frameworks and mock interviews
  • LinkedIn networking and outreach strategy
  • Accountability through weekly calls and community

Results

  • Landed Data Scientist role at Visa Inc.
  • $117K AUD base / $148K AUD total comp
  • ~12 interviews, 8-9 for DS roles
  • Went from zero DS interviews to signing a DS offer in 4 months
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Shilpa
Client Story: Shilpa

From +100 Applications and No Results to 4 Job Offers: How Shilpa Landed a Program Manager Role at TikTok Shop

Shilpa's challenges

  • Sent ~100 applications over 6 months, only 3–4 interviews and generic rejections
  • Visa status stalled several interviews once sponsorship came up
  • Stuck with no real feedback loop on what wasn’t working
  • Torn between data/analytics vs. research, on top of feeling undervalued at work

What we focused on

  • Helped her learn to "pitch herself," sharpening her CV and interview narrative
  • Built a structured system and consistent feedback loop through the CTC community
  • Strengthened how she structured her thoughts and communicated in interviews
  • Kept her accountable and consistent over the 4-month search

Results

  • Landed 4 job offers
  • Accepted a Program Manager role at TikTok Shop (Customer Experience - loyalty & trust)
  • Achieved this within 4 months of joining
  • Gained lasting confidence and consistency in her job search
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Aaron
Client Story: Aaron

From Multiple Rejections to Landing a Senior Financial Analyst Offer: How Aaron Got Upleveled Because of His Interview Performance

Aaron's challenges

  • Diverse background that didn’t read as "data" on paper
  • Real entry-level DA/DS postings were scarce, so he broadened toward SQL-heavy ops and analyst roles
  • Unsure whether to chase DS titles or build up through analyst roles first
  • Lacked a clear script for cold networking outreach

What we focused on

  • Rebuilt resume to surface the data/analytics angle across every past role, with quantified metrics
  • Targeted analyst-track roles (BA/DA/financial/ops) with JD-based tailoring
  • Optimized LinkedIn for data keywords
  • Networking templates + daily outreach cadence, plus mock interview practice

Results

  • Applied for a Financial Analyst role (posted range $74K–$94K)
  • After 5 interview rounds + a take-home assignment, was upleveled by the employer into a Senior Financial Analyst offer (posted range $87K–$117K)
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