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Project Leadership

"This Is The Currency Of How To Get Roles"

Dr Yvette Henry's Story

Yvette is from the UK and currently lives in Spain, working as a project leader in pharma and biotech. She'd had a year-long contract with Astellenica, took a short pause afterward, and expected stepping back into the industry to be straightforward. Six months later it wasn't. She'd sent 15-20 applications and, for the first time in her career, wasn't even getting interviews. No feedback, no connections, nothing to work with.

She held off another four or five months before joining Remote Rebellion, having decided she needed a different approach to figure out why nothing was landing. Her initial assumption was that she just needed to tweak a few things given she was working remotely from Spain in a genuinely competitive industry. What actually shifted was how she thought about her own positioning. The course pushed her to identify her unique selling points, and further research she did as a result of that process surfaced something specific: companies in her field actually want an "athlete mindset," agile but focused and goal-oriented. That reframe became a turning point.

She'd been apprehensive going in about whether a general course could speak to a niche field like pharma and biotech. It turned out she could adapt what she learned to fit her specific industry rather than needing industry-specific content handed to her.

LinkedIn was the bigger revelation. She'd been using it as a glorified CV format, nothing more. The course reframed her profile as her actual personal brand, worth reworking properly, and taught her how algorithms, commenting, and group participation function as real currency for connections, recruiters included. She distinguishes between the conventional path (someone finds your profile, you connect or apply) and having enough of a platform that people start reaching out to her directly.

She rebuilt her CV properly and got an interview within two weeks. Her first offer was hybrid, and she turned it down rather than take on a commute. The same company came back afterward with a fully remote offer instead, the outcome she'd actually been after.

Her advice: get clear on why you're joining something before you start, and know what you want out of it. She found the course thorough enough to cover CV, LinkedIn, and interview prep in full, and credits that comprehensiveness with equipping her for a remote job market she says is still evolving under her.