Case Study #4
Adam: 5★ on Trustpilot
Adam
HiringFunnel client
“Extremely personalized — you won't get this quality of service anywhere else.”
In Adam's own words
“Jared Rocks.”
Jared's service is extremely personalized. You will not get the quality personalized service Jared is offering from anyone. Very competent software developer and a motivated personable person. I strongly recommend utilizing Jared's services.
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The result
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How Adam went from practicing law to interviewing as a software engineer
Adam came from a legal career and had never held a job in tech. No prior software engineer title on his resume, no internal referrals, no obvious way in. We built the market-facing engineer version of him from scratch and put him in front of the kind of companies most career-changers can't get past the resume filter at.
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The starting point: lawyer, zero tech experience on paper
Adam had a legal career behind him and was making a full career change into software engineering. The technical skills were real — the resume signal was not. Every ATS in the market was going to bounce a lawyer applying to engineering roles unless the framing changed.
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Rebuild the resume around the engineer, not the lawyer
We rewrote the resume for ATS keyword pass-through against a specific target engineering band. The legal background stayed as a differentiator — analytical thinking, high-stakes ownership, client communication — but the top of the page read as an engineer's page, not a career changer's.
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Pipeline volume to beat the pattern-match filter
Career-changers lose on odds: even a great candidate gets filtered on a first pass. We ran the automated LinkedIn pipeline daily to put him in front of enough recruiters that the good ones would slow down and actually read the resume — the only way past the pattern-match filter is at-bats.
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Interviews at real companies as an engineer
He landed interview loops at strong companies — the kind of names that most lawyers-turned-engineers don't get to talk to on a first career switch. The system did what it was supposed to do: convert an unlikely candidate into a real pipeline of engineering conversations.
How we worked with Adam
HiringFunnel runs the same 4-phase playbook for every member. The specifics vary by stack, seniority, and target compensation, but the shape stays constant: target, generate pipeline, prep the interviews, negotiate the offer.
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Phase 1 — Targeting and resume calibration
Before any applications go out, we lock down the target: seniority band (senior, staff, or principal), tech stack focus, salary floor, and a do-not-target list of company shapes that historically waste time. The resume is rewritten for ATS keyword pass-through against that target — once, calibrated, not per-application.
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Phase 2 — Pipeline volume on autopilot
Automated LinkedIn applications run daily at 20–50 per day, exclusively to roles matching the targeting profile. The dashboard surfaces every application sent, every response, and the current pipeline stage. The member spends zero time on Easy Apply busywork — that time goes to interview prep.
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Phase 3 — Live interview coaching
Once recruiter replies come in, we run weekly 1-on-1 prep: technical screen rehearsal, system design under live whiteboard, behavioral STAR drilling for the actual companies on the calendar. The goal isn't generic prep — it's company-specific reps for the next 7 days of interviews.
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Phase 4 — Offer negotiation
When offers land, we run the counter-offer playbook: competing offers, base/equity/sign-on splits, leveling conversations, and the exact scripts that have pushed offers $30K–$80K higher. Most members recover the full subscription cost in a single negotiation conversation.
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