Sep 7 / Richa Bansal

My Client Landed Her Dream Role with a $35k Raise

My first ever coaching client was a 50+ old single mom.

She had just sent her daughter to the top medical school in the US.

Life had been hard for her.

She had jumped from one consulting role to the next, moving cities and saving every penny to get her daughter the best education possible.

So, after prioritizing her family for 18 years, she was ready to prioritize herself.

And get a permanent role as a Sr. Business Analyst at a company that respected her 20+ years of experience.

When we started working together, she confessed, “what if I can never land my dream job because of my age?”

Here’s what we did to help her land a Sr. Business Analyst offer and negotiate a $35k salary raise.

1. Remove Age Bias from Resume

Regardless of the best intentions of recruiters and companies, age bias is real.
We reduced age bias from her Resume through:
  • Removing her year of graduation
  • Combining her first 10 years of experience under a single job header
  • Simplifying the Resume format by adding white space, using simple modern fonts, and removing redundant sections like references.

2. Communicate Impact During Interviews

Next we worked together to prepare her for behavioral interviews.

Having jumped from one consulting role to another, she struggled with seeing the big-picture impact of her work on business results.

Through our coaching sessions, she learned to talk about her work as impact instead of tasks, which positioned her as a senior candidate for the roles she was interviewing for.

3. Negotiate the Offer

In less than 60 days of working together, she landed her first offer. And the next day, she landed her second.

She then used my proven word-by-word script to pitch one offer against the other and increase her total compensation by $35k, significantly above the maximum posted range on the job description.

Her new role has allowed her to move back closer to friends and family, and spend mentoring young adults through college applications.

To date, she sends me pictures of her volunteering her heart out.

And I couldn’t be more proud of her.
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Why? Because she decided to prioritize herself despite the fear of ageism, wrong timing, or wrong market.
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