I've seen a lot of candidates 1.5X their annual income.
What did they have in common?
They all identified a way to take their existing skillset to create more value in a different industry or role.
A few examples:
Have experience doing machine learning research as a professor?
Try a machine learning role at a healthcare company.
Example of a Relentless alum who did this: Neal R's success story
Have experience doing statistics research at a government institution?
Try a data analytics role in tech.
Example of a Relentless alum who did this: Subhomoy G's success story
Have experience in sales for an insurance company?
Try a sales job in tech.
Example of a Relentless alum who did this: Marshall C's Success story
Here's a broken-down-case-study of a real candidate who did this:
(For privacy reasons, we've changed details about the candidate, but the concepts we use are accurate).
Meet John.
John was born in SF and got into selling clothing in retail after graduating from College.
He was promoted quickly into a sales manager role within a few years months of starting the job.
The problem is John was unhappy with how much he was making.
As an SF resident, he was pulling in $45K which was barely enough to cover rent and child payments.
John knew he had the potential to make more, but negotiating with his current employer wasn't working.
Here's how we got John a $100K compensation increase:
We identified a role which creates more value for employers:
In order for you to land a role that pays $XXXK+ you need to create 5X more than that for your employer.
The problem with selling clothing is the contract values on clothing items are not high.
Every customer you sell to, even in SF, is probably averaging $50 per spend.
In tech sales however, contract values can be as high as $1MN+.We identified a role that John was good at:
This means you are likely to be able to deliver on the results needed to deliver on the value of that role.
Selling is a transferable skill-set and getting good at selling one product means you're likely to be good at selling another.
This meant that John was likely to be good at selling technology products.We identified a role that a lot of people are hiring for:
The more a role is being hired for, the more companies you can interview with, which means you get more interview attempts, which means you are more likely to get a high quality and quantity of offers.
There are several sales roles in tech which is why it was the right target.
We then generated a bunch of interviews for John using this process: https://kareemabukhadra.substack.com/p/ive-been-publishing-a-series-of-posts
We then helped John pass those interviews using this process: https://kareemabukhadra.substack.com/p/the-1-interviewing-approach
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1.5x is massive when it comes to salary, thanks for the tips