Nelson was the best sales executive in his company for three years running. So when the Sales Manager role opened, nobody was surprised when he got it. Eight months later, his team had missed target twice, two of his strongest people had
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Rose had been Head of Customer Experience for 6 years when her role was eliminated in a restructure. She spent the first three weeks sending her old CV to every vacancy she saw. Nothing came back and her confidence dropped with every
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Nafula reached the interview stage for an INGO Country Programme Manager role. She knew the STAR method. She still did not get the job. Her answers had a Situation, a Task, an Action and a Result — but the panel could not
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David had fourteen years of experience managing logistics operations across East Africa, and a track record he was proud of: cutting warehousing costs, redesigning distribution routes, and leading teams through two major systems migrations. When he decided to pursue roles with international
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Josephine had been a Head of Finance for seven years at a Kenyan manufacturer, and by every reasonable measure she was ready for a CFO seat. She had rebuilt the finance function, taken the business through two audits and a banking restructure,
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Samuel led supply chain operations across three African markets but had never worked with a multinational headquartered outside the continent. Once his LinkedIn and CV spoke the language of global mandates: cross-border compliance, multi-currency budgets, matrixed reporting two international recruiters reached out
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Samuel led supply chain operations across three African markets but had never worked with a multinational headquartered outside the continent. Once his LinkedIn and CV spoke the language of global mandates: cross-border compliance, multi-currency budgets, matrixed reporting two international recruiters reached out
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Njeri was offered a regional finance role and nearly accepted the first figure out of relief. A short negotiation conversation, backed by market data we helped her prepare, added 22% to her base pay before she signed anything, a single conversation that
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Titus’s LinkedIn headline read “Sales Executive” the same title he’d held eight years earlier. Recruiters searching for “Regional Sales Manager” never found him, even though that was exactly the work he was doing. Once we rewrote his headline, About section, and Featured
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Amara had been doing director-level work for two years while carrying a manager’s title and salary. She wasn’t overlooked because she lacked ability she was overlooked because no one above her had documented proof of what she was actually delivering. When she
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