Success stories
18 experienced IT professionals who stopped applying and waiting, and started hustling. Here's where they landed and how they got there.
"It's my new year's resolution to change my job search strategy because it's not working."
"Travis, I've just received a new vacancy and I thought of you first."
"Just keep pushing forward, and it will happen. It will happen."
All 18 stories
Senior Program Manager, UNSW
The cohort's lowest starting score became its most dramatic transformation.
After a redundancy from Telstra, David rebuilt his LinkedIn around personal stories, tracked every relationship in a pipeline and moved his effort to Levels 1 to 4. He went from the lowest first-week score in his cohort to an 18-month contract at UNSW, six weeks after his coaching began.
CareerAGILITY VIP + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Dulux
Seven months of quiet groundwork, sharpened into a three-week sprint to Dulux.
A quiet achiever whose market presence didn't match his depth, Jamie ran a 13-week LinkedIn storytelling campaign and shifted from job seeker to consultant. The Hustle Game compressed the final stretch, and he was one of Season 1's first two winners.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Senior Project Manager, Customer Experience, Bupa
One new year's resolution and five weeks turned into three offers and a new career at Bupa.
Susan repositioned herself from generalist project manager to CX Transformation Specialist and swapped job board scrolling for coffee chats inside target companies. Five weeks later she had three offers at once.
"It's my new year's resolution to change my job search strategy because it's not working."
Strategy session + The Hustle Game · Season 1
NSW Health
Proof that age is no barrier when structure meets speed.
David stayed in the game through the quiet Christmas and January period and a family break. That steady momentum turned seven months of coaching into an offer from NSW Health in Week 7.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Senior Technology Leader, Equip Super
Built enough trust that a recruiter called him first.
Travis stopped the death scroll, sharpened his specialist positioning and built genuine relationships with his key contacts and recruiters. His momentum got to the point where the market came to him.
"Travis, I've just received a new vacancy and I thought of you first."
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Woolworths
Never once had to job search before, and turned a blank canvas into a new career.
After leaving Dell, Kevin, who had never needed to look for a job, ran a structured LinkedIn campaign that took him from a blank-canvas profile to a confident, market-ready candidate and a new role at Woolworths.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Contract, Fragile to Agile
A year of quiet community goodwill turned into a role that came looking for him.
Roger spent a year in the community before joining The Hustle Game. By Week 4 a CEO contact called him unprompted, proof his relationship-led approach was working. Continued key contact discipline led to his contract with Fragile to Agile.
Community + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Digital Transformation Executive, Ausgrid
Rebuilt an international executive career for the Australian market, one relationship at a time.
Rather than relying on his international track record to speak for itself, Mahmoud rebuilt his Australian market presence from the ground up. Visibility created the opportunity, and he landed at Ausgrid.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Magnetica
Fifteen months of persistence turned a lonely search into a network-led win.
Phil shifted from perfecting his CV to building human connections. His new manager later confirmed he was chosen over other candidates because he was more personable.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 1
Change Manager, SEQ Water
Arrived in Brisbane knowing no one, and became known as the city's next Change Manager.
Rachel built a specialist Change Manager position, a recognised personal brand and a real Brisbane network from scratch in a single program cycle, then started at SEQ Water.
CareerAGILITY VIP
GPK Services
Fast and steady: four weeks from joining Season 2 to one of our quickest results.
Alby secured his offer at GPK Services in Week 4 of Season 2. Recruiters were reaching out again before he'd even updated his LinkedIn profile.
"Just keep pushing forward, and it will happen. It will happen."
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 2
Project Manager, NBN Co
Twelve months of coming second gave way to the real Daniel.
Daniel had narrowly missed an NBN Co role after five interview rounds. Months later the hiring manager came back to him, and this time he landed a 12-month contract.
"I just have confidence, turning up as the genuine Daniel."
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 2
Technical Lead, Roadhouse Digital
A stagnant, reactive search became a targeted hustle, and a Technical Lead role in five weeks.
A year after his redundancy from Foxtel, Tim swapped volume applications for a targeted, network-based hustle and joined the Trophy Cabinet five weeks into Season 2.
Community + The Hustle Game · Season 2
Head of Portfolio, SVHA
An offer before his first week of play was even over.
Michael joined The Hustle Game mid-season as a CareerAGENT client and had his offer confirmed within his first week, one of the quickest turnarounds anyone in the program can remember.
CareerAGENT + The Hustle Game · Season 2
Olympus
The grit story of the season, with the highest key contact output in the cohort.
One of the original Job Seeker Café regulars, David kept a pipeline half a dozen opportunities deep and a high volume of interviews, and signed with Olympus in Week 8 of Season 2.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Seasons 1 and 2
TVS Supply Chain Solutions
Two searches, two landings. Redundancy couldn't stop her twice.
Made redundant just months into a new role, Chiru rejoined The Hustle Game instead of starting from scratch, and landed for the second time with TVS Supply Chain Solutions in Week 9.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 2
New role (employer to be announced)
The debut nobody saw coming: the highest single week the cohort saw all season.
Karen treated her job search like an operational role. Seven weeks after her first Job Seeker Café, she signed her new contract.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 2
Sharon AI
No fireworks, just ten straight weeks of steady build, and an offer from Sharon AI.
After Equinix, Rachel stopped waiting and started hustling: managing a pipeline, building a human brand and keeping up steady activity. The result was a genuine step up with Sharon AI.
CareerAGILITY + The Hustle Game · Season 2
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