Penny works around a full-time job — a targeted search instead of a scattershot one, on evenings and weekends. Sign up with a personal email and nothing touches your work account.
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Session twoTargeting
Penny
You've got maybe three hours a week for this. Let's not spend them on applications that were never going to land.
You
That's honestly most of what I've been doing.
Penny
Then we cut the list. Six roles you'd actually take, and one version of your resume built for those six — not for everything.
Why it's hard
You're doing it in the margins. Evenings, lunch breaks, the odd quiet hour. A scattershot search doesn't survive that budget.
You can't ask around. The people best placed to help you are precisely the ones you can't tell.
Comfortable is a trap. A job that's merely fine is the easiest thing in the world to stay in for another three years.
How it works
Step one
One conversation, whenever suits — including at 11pm on a Sunday, which is when most of this actually happens.
Step two
Your skill set written up as bullet points with the examples behind them, then aimed at the roles you would actually take.
Step three
Six roles worth your time instead of sixty, prep before each conversation, and a session that takes fifteen minutes when that is all you have. Plus a morning affirmation, for the weeks when the search slips down the list.
Straight answers
Not through Penny. It doesn't connect to your calendar or your LinkedIn account, and it never posts anything anywhere. The one thing to watch is the email address you sign up with: use a personal one, and nothing from Penny ever lands in your work inbox.
It's enough for a targeted search and nowhere near enough for a scattershot one. Narrowing the list is most of what changes here.
Then you'll know what you're worth elsewhere, which is the strongest position anyone has ever walked into a pay conversation with.