Adam 🇬🇧

Commercial Controller

"You Have To Invest In Yourself"

Adam's Story

Adam had been job hunting for about a year before joining Remote Rebellion. He was 100% office-based, watching his wife get more flexibility in her own work, and wanting the same for himself. The problem wasn't a lack of effort. He didn't know what a strong CV looked like, was firing off applications without much strategy, and got almost nothing back for it. One interview in a year, in a market where hundreds of people compete for the same role.

The first three months in the course weren't about applying at all. He worked through the modules, rebuilt his CV, and got it in front of the community for feedback, several rounds of it. When he did start applying, his first instinct was to spray applications out the same way he had before, and it didn't work any better than it had pre-course. Going back through the networking modules changed that. Once he shifted how he approached recruiters, he started getting specific about what he actually wanted: the right culture, the right flexibility, the right pay.

Seven months after starting, he had a new job lined up, a six-figure salary, and his resignation already handed in.

What surprised him was what the course actually gave him. He'd expected to be handed job opportunities to pick from. Instead, it was about getting job-search ready himself: sharpening his profile, thinking through who to talk to, being proactive instead of waiting for something relevant to land in his inbox. He also points to the community itself as part of the value, not just for the direct feedback but for the sense that the ups and downs of the search were normal, something other people were going through too.

The bigger shift is what the flexibility means day to day. No more commuting, more time with family, the ability to work alongside his wife from home instead of splitting life into five days of office and two days of everything else.