#TBCResults: From burnout to breakthrough - how a network engineer landed a ₱65K offer in just 58 days
#TBCResults - 048 - Mikee: From burnout to breakthrough - how a network engineer landed a ₱65K offer in just 58 days
Mikee’s Problem:
“How do I get companies to notice my application even though I'm not a stellar student/employee?”
”Land a job in a company with better working conditions and better pay”
Mikee was 1 step away from being burnt out.
She was doing the workload of 3 people for the salary of 1.
Even though she kept asking for support from her manager to solve this, no help was coming.
She was in a toxic work environment and felt like she was getting taken advantage of. She was growing resentful and wanted to get out.
But that was the problem.
“She was so busy at work that she had no idea how she’d make the time to get out of this job.
She didn’t want to spend a lot of time preparing for applications that wouldn’t turn into offers. She didn’t have a lot of free time to begin with.
Mikee wanted a new job offer that came with a better salary and a better work environment. And she wanted it fast.
But she didn’t know how she’d get it. So that’s why she wanted to work with me.”
Once you get urgency paralysis, it gets hard to take action as you’re worrying about whether this is the right use of your time. That’s why I built a standardized job hunting framework to combat this.
The Bumpy Career’s Proposed Solution:
Mikee’s situation is the most common for me to solve, that I built my standard framework around it.
How do you get the same type of job at a higher pay and in the shortest amount of time?
I call it The Bumpy Career’s Status Shift Method and it comprises of 4 steps.
1️⃣ Audit & Align (Get Clear and Set the Goal)
You tell me what you want — no matter how vague, ambitious, or uncertain it feels right now. I’ll assess whether it’s feasible based on your background, goals, and current situation during our scoping call.
You’ll also gather your career map, which includes:
A Masterfile resume with everything you’ve done so far
An Ideal Job List divided into Dream Companies, Great Companies, and Safety Nets
An Ideal Offer Checklist broken down into Must-Haves, Nice-to-Haves, and Red Flags
Together, we’ll identify the gaps and misalignments between where you are and where you want to go.
2️⃣ Optimize & Strategize (Build the Roadmap)
Next, we rework your “career map” into something sharper and more strategic:
A targeted resume, an optimized LinkedIn, and a weekly job hunt system
Addressing skill gaps or possible portfolio pieces
Aligning your positioning with what your ideal employers actually want to see
Every move from here on is intentional.
3️⃣ Sharpen & Showcase (Boost Visibility and Make Your Case)
Here’s where we make you visible to the right people:
A LinkedIn networking plan with clear scripts and targets
Custom portfolios or case studies (if applicable)
Interview prep that tells the right story: how you got here and why you’re the right fit
A tight elevator pitch that makes you sound like the obvious candidate
We only get one shot to make the best impression. We’re not wasting it.
4️⃣ Execute & Secure (Apply, Interview, Win)
You’ll apply strategically, focusing only on high-impact roles.
Then we prep for interviews, negotiate offers, and secure a role that fits the vision we clarified in Step 1.
We also course-correct as needed — your strategy evolves based on market feedback, and we’ll adjust through optional catch-up calls.
And we do all of this in < 4 hours of live coaching.
💡 Why The Bumpy Career’s Status Shift Method™ Works
✅ You get clear on the right job. No more random applications and hoping for the best.
✅ You stay strategic, not reactive. Every step is mapped, not improvised.
✅ You move fast and efficiently. No overthinking or second-guessing.
✅ You land offers with confidence. Because you know you’re showing up as your sharpest self.
Back to Mikee.
To me, it was very straightforward. First, I wanted Mikee to quiet quit her job. Just focus on getting the minimum done for the day so she’d have energy leftover for finding a way out of there.
Second, she had to focus her energies on the right aspects of her job hunt.
In my opinion, she only had to document all her skills and experiences, then train for interviews especially on how to figure out what the work environment would be like. I felt she was already highly skilled and it wouldn’t take long to get her out of this job. She just needed to know what to look for and accept.
Timeline and Deliverables:
Across 16 days, we had 2 1-hour calls where we:
✅ Redid her entire resume, highlighting her network engineer skills
✅ Built out her ideal offer checklist, where we made it clear what her next workplace had to offer before she considered accepting the role
✅ Built out her job hunting tracker to make it clear what skills she needed to highlight to get into similar roles ASAP
✅ Built her LinkedIn
✅ Interview practiced, especially on asking about the new workplace's current workload and setup
✅ Salary negotiation practice especially if she was expected to be on-call
✅ !! Most important !! Worked on reminding Mikee that this schedule and level of work she had to accomplish was only just for now. Soon enough, this would end but only if she finished the work we had to do.
Outcome:
Mikee came out of our calls with a strong resume and interview skill set. She was ready to negotiate on her salary and more importantly, her work environment needs.
The real issue was, would she have time to go through all the job openings and send in her applications?
That, I couldn’t help as much with.
She needed to find that time herself and I reminded her that the work would always be there but these job openings wouldn’t. I could only hope that she’d prioritize accordingly.
Thankfully, she did!
58 days after signing on to work together, Mikee signed a job offer with a company widely considered as a top WFH employer.
Even better, she negotiated her start date so that she could receive her bonus with no issue and get a 2 week break in between the roles. That only came about because we strategized that this was an important issue to her so she had to make it clear in the interview process that it was non-negotiable.
Some words from Mikee herself:
I never doubted that Mikee would land her next role quickly. She followed the framework perfectly and put it into practice immediately, leading to her success in hitting the goals we aligned on when we started working together.
My greatest wish is that her new company treats her right because if not, she’s more than capable of walking away for a higher price anytime now~
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The Bumpy Career is the career coach for the confused high achiever.
Meaning you're the type of person that if you know where to go and what you had to do, you'd be number 1 in an instant. But you're a bit confused today on exactly that: where to go and what to do.
That's where I come in.
We'll work together to give you a actionable roadmap to make your career live up to your expectations. If that sounds great to you, then book a call here and let's talk soon~