Think Your Job Is Safe? I Thought So Too - Until I Was Escorted Out in 30 Minutes

Think your job is safe?

I thought so too - until I was escorted out of the building in 30 minutes flat.

I know what it feels like to go from "Rockstar Employee" to unemployed. Overnight.

I spent the next 18 months trying to navigate one of the worst recessions in history. The Great Recession. The one that left millions of people exactly where I was - doing everything right and getting nothing back.

I sent out thousands of applications.

I barely heard back.

This was the moment I learned that the traditional job search is broken. Not because the people searching are broken. Because the system is built for a market that no longer exists.

The One Thing That Changed Everything

With my savings and unemployment running out, I did the one thing I now teach every client to do.

I sent ONE email.

To someone I had met at a conference the previous year.

That's it. One email. One relationship I'd invested in before I needed anything from it.

Within two months, not only did I have a job - I was making more money than I ever had in my career.

It completely changed the trajectory of my life.

The Birth of Intentional Career Design™

That moment didn't just save my career. It revealed the system.

I called it Intentional Career Design™ - a framework that removes the guesswork, bad advice, and luck from your career.

It's built on a simple truth: the professionals who win in this market aren't the ones who apply the most. They're the ones who've made themselves impossible to overlook before the opportunity ever opens.

Relationships over applications. Positioning over persistence.

Everything I build in my business comes back to that 30-minute escort out of the building. To the 18 months of rejection. To the one email that taught me how it actually works.

The Candidate of Choice™

What I teach now is the system I needed then.

How to become the Candidate of Choice™ - the person that hiring managers already know, already trust, and are already asking about before the job is even posted.

How to get on the shortlist without submitting a single application.

How to build a career that isn't vulnerable to a 30-minute escort and a cardboard box.

I built the Theory of Hireability™ around this origin story - because if it happened to me, with everything I knew about recruiting, it can happen to anyone.

And more importantly: the way out is learnable.

You can design the career that protects you. I did it. Thousands of my clients have done it.

Start here: TheoryOfHireability.com

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