Reverse Recruiting for IT Leaders Land the Right Role Faster
You don’t need more job postings. You need a better process.
I give IT leaders an efficient, structured process to land the right role faster.
Instead of doing everything yourself, you’ll have support sourcing opportunities, positioning yourself effectively, and executing the right actions at the right time.
Senior IT Leaders Face a Different Kind of Search
You can’t search for IT leadership roles the same way other leaders find jobs. Systems vary from one place to the next, methodologies differ, the IT to Business interactions are unique, but you must convey that your experience (although different than what they currently have) is exactly what they need. The rules are different in IT, technical scope must be accounted for, cross-functional expectations are specific, and leadership style matters most of all.
You’re managing teams, projects, and priorities. The problem is not motivation. It’s that a serious job search requires structure, consistency, and follow-through that is hard to sustain alone.
What worked earlier in your career may not work now. At the senior level, applying online without a clear strategy often creates more activity than traction.
Trying random approaches and hoping one sticks is expensive. Every week spent testing weak strategies is a week when better opportunities can quietly pass by.
Many strong leaders are more qualified than their materials suggest. If your positioning is not aligned with the level you want, you can be overlooked long before anyone speaks with you.
There’s a Better Way.
Most senior-level searches break down because good candidates are left to manage a high-stakes process alone. You do not need more advice. You need a structured system and the right support behind it.
Structured Execution, Not Just Advice
Most career services stop at guidance. They give you feedback, suggest changes, and send you back into the market to figure it out on your own.
This works differently. You get a structured process with real execution behind it, so your search moves forward with more clarity, better positioning, and less wasted effort.
Define Your Brand & Target
We clarify your next move, identify the right role targets, and make sure your positioning supports the level you want to reach.
Build Your Executive Profile
Your resume, messaging, and supporting materials are refined so they communicate leadership, scope, and value more effectively.
Surface Hidden Opportunities
We focus on better-fit roles, strategic targeting, and outreach opportunities that are often missed in a traditional search.
Warm Outreach & Applications
Instead of relying only on cold applications, your search includes stronger positioning, targeted submissions, and outreach that creates traction.
Interview Prep & Offer Strategy
Once interviews begin, we shift toward preparation, executive-level positioning, and help evaluating the opportunities that emerge.
Our Process
This is not a typical job search. This is a structured system designed to help IT leaders move with clarity, precision, and momentum from start to offer.
What You Get that
You Can’t Easily Do Yourself
Yes, you can write your resume yourself, but can you do it as well as a professional resume writer who specializes in IT leadership resumes?
Yes, you could write a custom cover letter and customize your resume before applying to every job yourself, but would you do it as effectively as a professional recruiter? Do you have the time or interest to try?
Yes, you could connect with hiring managers to tell them how great you are, but would it have as much impact as someone with expertise evaluating IT leaders telling them how great you are?
We leverage tools like LinkedIn Recruiter ATS, our own large ATS databases that we’ve carefully built and nurtured over 25+ years filled with IT leadership resumes, hiring organizations, and company contacts, our professional resume writing services, hundreds of hours of training videos, market research strategies, advanced interview training, network building structure, and job search process that gets results.
Yes, you can purchase an ATS seat license, get training to use it, and execute a trial & error search strategy, but wouldn’t you get better results from an experienced expert who uses a proven search strategy and who already owns multiple ATS seat licenses? Would you be able to apply the same level of recruiter judgment, market analysis, and hiring expertise as a professional who specializes in this process?
The question is, if getting the right job is important for the next step in your career, do you want a novice to volunteer their help or do you want to hire an expert?
Recruiter-Level Strategy
We identify your personal brand, clarify your target roles, strengthen your resume and LinkedIn strategy, improve your outreach, prepare you for interviews, and keep you accountable so the search does not drift.
Access and Research
We find targeted job leads, identify hiring managers, use recruiter tools and internal contact research, and give you customized outreach language so you know who to contact and what to say.
Execution and Advocacy
We pursue approved opportunities for you, customize materials, apply, follow up, and reach out on your behalf. You are not just telling employers you are qualified, you have an IT recruiting expert positioning you.
Plus a $3K success fee (if an offer is accepted within the 3 months)
(No success fee after initial 3 months)
Success Fee Only If You Accept an Offer
Gold includes a performance-based success fee because incentives should be aligned. You invest in the process up front, and the success fee is only earned when the process helps produce an accepted offer.
If you accept an offer from an opportunity we helped identify, pursue, apply to, follow up on, or prepare you for during your initial 3-month Gold engagement, the $3,000 success fee is due.
If you are actively working with us and do not accept an offer from our work during those first 3 months, you do not owe the success fee.
When you have a better process, you get better results, faster.
Shared Commitment
This process works best when both sides execute consistently. We handle the search strategy, lead sourcing, applications, and preparation. You stay engaged by responding, participating, and taking action when needed.
Why are you obligated to stay involved?
• If we identify and present a qualified job lead and you don’t respond to us, we can’t pursue it to help you get an offer.
• If we write a cover letter, customize your resume, and apply to a job for you, and but you don’t take the employer’s call, the opportunity is lost.
• If an interview is scheduled and you don’t let us help you prepare or if you don’t show up, we can’t help convert it into an offer.
We will set the conditions in your favor, but you still need to engage with employers, participate in interviews, and follow through at each stage to keep momentum moving.
As a result, Speed Up My Search reserves the right to void the Success Fee Guarantee if your actions prevent us from executing the process effectively. This includes, but is not limited to, not responding to qualified opportunities, missing interviews, or not following the process we use to consistently generate results.
If you remain engaged and follow the process, and a job offer is not secured during your initial 3-month engagement, no success fee will be due. This remains true even if you continue working with us beyond the initial term.
An accepted job offer is defined as an offer of employment from an employer that you have formally accept. Speed Up My Search retains discretion in determining whether an offer qualifies under this guarantee.
If the shared commitment outlined above is not met, the Success Fee Guarantee does not apply, and the success fee will be due at the end of the initial term.
What the guarantee means
The Gold success fee is performance-based. If our work helps lead to job offer that you accept during your initial 3-month engagement, then the success fee applies. If you stay engaged and responsive during the process and our work does NOT produce a job offer you accept, the success fee is not owed, ever, even if you continue working with us beyond the initial 3-month engagement.
What counts as “our work”
This includes opportunities we helped source, research, pursue, apply to, follow up on, introduce you to, or prepare you to interview for during your initial 3-month engagement with us.
What counts as an accepted offer
An accepted offer means you formally accept a job offer from an employer. The success fee is not triggered by interviews, verbal interest, promises of future offers, or offers you choose not to accept.
What happens after 3 months
If you like our approach and can see it will get results if you just keep going, you may continue the Gold Reverse Recruiting engagement for $1,500/month for any length of time. No additional success fee applies after the initial 3-month Gold engagement.
What you need to do to qualify
This guarantee is built on shared execution. We handle as much of the process as possible, but your participation is required to create strong outcomes.
To qualify for the Success Fee Guarantee, you agree to:
• Stay actively engaged in the process throughout the 3-month engagement
• Respond to job lead approvals, feedback requests, and questions within 48 hours
• Use the mutually agreed upon professional resume we create for you
• Attend at least three of the weekly coaching sessions each month
• Attend all interview preparation meetings prior to your scheduled interviews
• Show up to all interviews scheduled at mutually agreed upon times with employers
• Send any direct outreach when required using the guidance we provide
These are not extra requirements. They are the actions that consistently lead to results. When both sides execute, the process works significantly better.
What this is not
This is not a mass-application service or a promise that any specific employer will make an offer. It is a targeted, recruiter-led process designed to improve positioning, increase traction, and create better opportunities. We will not be hurrying, rushing, flailing, or frantic to find your next role, we will purposeful and intentional in every step to ensure a quality match, not to pile a quantity of positions on you.
When you’re always improving, you can’t help but succeed.
More than any other type of leader, IT leaders understand that consistently performing Agile-based retrospectives weekly and making the necessary adjustments, you cannot help but to gain velocity.
We use a highly structured job search process with clearly defined steps. We track your data, review which steps are getting the best results, then adjust the steps that don’t work while emphasizing the ones that do. Done weekly, how can you not get better results faster? Weaknesses are identified and corrected quickly, and strengths are leveraged regularly.
When you have a better process, you get better results, faster.
Who this is for
Senior IT leaders who want a more efficient, structured approach and process to find their next job. Whether you are a senior architect trying to break into leadership, or you are a senior director trying to move up to the C-suite, or if you’re already a C-level leader but want to find a better culture or an environment where you can make a bigger impact, we can help you get there.
Is the writing on the wall? Recently, a Senior Director of IT Engineering at a globally known company knew a layoff was looming, so she reached out to us to help her prepare. Two months later her company announced 40% of the senior leadership team would be laid off, including her, but unbeknownst to them earlier that same week she accepted an offer with an equally well-known global brand in her local area thanks to this program. If you see a layoff coming, decide to leave on your terms, not theirs.
What makes this different
Most services stop at advice. This combines recruiter-level strategy, execution support, and coaching so the search moves with more clarity and less wasted effort. Plus, it is exclusively designed for IT leaders and run by an executive IT recruiting leader with over 20 years of experience.
Frequently Asked
The Gold, Reverse Recruiting package is offered by application and invite only. Since we will be reaching out to employers on our clients’ behalf, we thorough vet our clients to ensure we are representing top tier talent. Not everyone will be accepted. To apply, just click the ‘Apply Now’ button and complete the short application and we will reach out to you soon. We review every application to ensure it’s a good fit for both parties. If selected or invited, we can get started right away. Our first session will be to identify your personal brand statement as we will build out your strategy from there.
– Resume Mastery
– LinkedIn Mastery
– Search Mastery
– Interview Mastery
– Networking Mastery
– Job Club Archive
– Apply Faster
– AI Mastery for Job Search
– New Job Onboarding
Ready to Land Your Next Great Role?
You’ve built an impressive career. Now let’s make sure the right opportunities see it clearly, and that your next move is approached with more structure, stronger positioning, and less wasted time.
Apply Now, Spaces Are LimitedSome leaders say they don’t have time to search for a new job. What they really don’t have is time to guess, backtrack, and test strategies while opportunities pass by. We help by replacing uncertainty with structure. Many of our clients haven’t put a resume together in 10+ years because they were always recruited!
IT leaders can’t search for new roles the same way they did as individual contributors.
- Relationships matter more than resumes
- Positioning matters more than volume
- Targeting matters more than effort
The company hiring you wants to feel lucky to have found you. They want to announce, “Look who we got!” The “lucky break” that brought you together can be orchestrated intentionally. That’s why I built this system. It’s not just guidance, it’s structured execution and support.
Instead of doing everything yourself, you have support in:
- identifying the right opportunities
- positioning yourself effectively
- executing applications and outreach
- keeping your search focused and moving forward
You’re still involved, but you’re no longer carrying the load by yourself. Availability is limited, but there are still a few slots open right now!
Apply for Gold Here
Invited VIPs:
How do I get an invitation?
Reach out to Paul directly via LinkedIn or email and set up an discovery call. You both will be able to evaluate the fit and determine if this is the right approach for you. Paul has limited availability and will start a waiting list once all spots are full, so reach out today if you are interested.
