How was your job search?

It took me a solid 9 months and was quite brutal indeed. I went through 16 rounds with one big healthcare tech company that would have been my dream job, only for them to be incredibly disrespectful the entire time the process unfolded, over the course of four months. Not sure I'm your poster child for this but I'm happy that I did eventually land something that aligns with my areas of strength, even if I had to switch industries.

Switching industries is a success story in itself these days. How did you make the case that your past experience was relevant to this new category?

My new company's customers were all staffing agencies so switching into staffing wasn't a hard sell, since I already understood and had lots of relationships within the industry.