Reverse recruiting, done by hand
A resume variant per role, applications submitted inside five days, and the hiring manager and recruiter contacted on each one.
How this is different from a resume mill
The first question most people have is whether this is one of the services that fires several hundred generic applications at a keyword feed and reports the volume back as progress. That business exists, and it is easy to run, because almost nobody audits the output.
So audit the output. Ask any provider for the tracker. A real one lists the role, the company, the date the posting went live, the date the application went in, the name and title of the person contacted, and the date of each follow-up. If what comes back is a count, you are buying volume. If it names people and dates, someone did the work.
Run that check on me. Your tracker is live from the first week and you can open it whenever you want, without asking me for a summary.
What happens on each role
Every role goes through the same sequence, and the outreach is written and sent by a person.
- Sourcing against the target you set: level, function, company type, compensation floor, location and work authorisation. Not a saved keyword alert.
- A resume variant for that specific posting. The top third gets rewritten in the language the posting uses, so the first thing on the page carries the same words the role does.
- The application submitted inside the first five days the posting is live.
- Direct outreach to the hiring manager and to the internal recruiter. Both, on every role, not whichever one was easier to find.
- Follow-up on day four and again on day eight, each one recorded against the role.
The first two weeks, by day
| Day | What happens |
|---|---|
| 0 | Intake call. The target goes down in writing: level, function, company type, compensation floor, location, authorisation. |
| 1 to 3 | Sourcing, and the first shortlist. You see the list before anything is sent. |
| 1 to 5 | Applications go in, each with its own resume variant, inside five days of the posting going live. |
| 4 | First follow-up on every role already submitted. |
| 8 | Second follow-up. The role is then either closed out or kept warm with a reason recorded. |
Week three onward, and what I do when a posting keeps getting reposted, is set out in how it works.
Who should not hire me
If you want help deciding what career to pursue, that is a coaching problem and I do not solve it. I execute a search against a target you have already chosen, and if the target is still open the work has nothing to aim at.
If you are running your own search competently and you are getting interviews from it, paying me to do it will not add much. I would rather say that on the call than three weeks into a retainer.
If you are out of work with no savings behind you, a monthly retainer is the wrong risk to carry. A search takes as long as it takes, I cannot tell you in advance how long that is, and I am not going to imply otherwise to get you to sign.
The tracker
You get a link in the first week. It lists every role, every person contacted, and the date of every follow-up. Nothing is aggregated into a weekly email and nothing is held back until a review call.
Interviews generated since 2020
This work has generated more than 2,200 interviews for clients since 2020. Those clients are in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Zee Careers has operated as a company since 2023.
I do not publish placement rates, salary increases or time-to-offer averages. I would be estimating them, and you would have no way to check the estimate.
If you are a career coach or you run a small search firm, and you want this delivered under your own brand, the arrangement is different. It is set out on for career coaches.
What the call is
Twenty minutes. Bring your target role and your last four weeks of activity: what you sent, who you sent it to, and what came back. You will get a specific read on where the search is breaking, whether or not you hire me.