People ATX Academy · Austin, Texas

Don't get replaced. Drive.

Most people don't know what happens to their application after they hit submit. Thirty years of insider knowledge from both sides of the desk, distilled into the strategy that actually works when the rules have already changed.

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75^%

of resumes never reach a human

80^%

of jobs filled before they're posted

30⁺

years behind the recruiting desk

75% of resumes filtered before a human sees them 80% of jobs never publicly posted 250+ applications per open role 30% of entry-level roles at risk from AI 50+ combined years behind the recruiting desk The visible job market is the leftover market 75% of resumes filtered before a human sees them 80% of jobs never publicly posted 250+ applications per open role 30% of entry-level roles at risk from AI 50+ combined years behind the recruiting desk The visible job market is the leftover market

The data nobody shows you

The job market doesn't run on one clock.

There are three distinct cohorts, and most students don't know which one they're in. The strategy changes completely based on the answer.

September — November

The early movers

Finance. Consulting. Big Tech. These industries recruit nine to twelve months in advance. Offers land by November. By December those seats are filled. If this was your target, the window opened last July.

Goldman · McKinsey · Google

December — March

The waiting zone

This is where most students live, sending applications into the void and refreshing email. The silence is not random. Seventy-five percent of resumes are deleted by an algorithm before a human reads a name.

Where most students get stuck

You are here

April — June

The reframe

You are not late. You are in a different market. Startups. Agencies. Austin-based companies. These organizations hire on 30 to 60 day cycles. April is their season — if you know how to find them before the posting exists.

Startups · Agencies · Austin ecosystem

The executive search lens

What we look for in a $500K executive — and what that means if you're 22.

Executive search is the most rigorous hiring process that exists. Understand what it demands at the top, and you can reverse-engineer what to build right now.

The broken path — what most people do

Send fifty applications

LinkedIn. Indeed. Company websites. Send everything. Hope someone notices.

Wait. Check email. Wait more.

The algorithm already filtered you out. You'll never know why.

Pray for a response

One automated rejection. Then silence. Then more silence.

Panic. Start over.

Same approach, same result. The loop continues until graduation arrives.

Predictable outcome: nothing

The strategy — what we teach

Define where you want to be in ten years

Not a job title. A version of yourself with specific impact, income, and trajectory. Start there.

Work backwards to today

What roles, companies, and relationships build toward that goal? What do you need to do this semester, this month?

Build the foundation before you need it

Network before you're desperate. Build a portfolio before you're applying. Know your story before the interview.

Execute with precision

Target five companies aligned to the ten-year goal. Get inside through people, not portals. The call comes.

The call comes.

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What AI cannot touch

The human skills. The ones we teach.

Your degree is a filter. Your GPA is table stakes. What makes you unforgettable, what has always separated the people who got the call from the ones who didn't, is human.

Emotional intelligence

Reading the room. Knowing when to speak and when to listen. Managing your own nerves and responding to what's really being asked.

Communication

Presence. Clarity. The confidence to tell your story without apologizing for it. Communication is not what you say — it's what the other person hears.

Networking

Not collecting contacts — building relationships before you need them. We teach you how to enter rooms, follow up, and stay remembered.

Resilience

The job search is a rejection sport. Everyone who got the offer first got the no. What separates them is the ability to stay in motion after a door closes.

Personal brand

What are you known for when you're not in the room? Every strong candidate owns one thing in someone's mind. We help you find that thing and build toward it.

Self-awareness

The candidates who get placed know what they don't know. That kind of honesty isn't weakness — it's the fastest signal that this person is worth investing in.

Real people. Real jobs. Same framework.

I'm a professional triathlete. I've raced at Kona twice. I know performance gear better than most people who sell it. What I didn't know was how to walk into a room and translate all of that into something a hiring manager could act on. The Academy taught me how to tell my story without apologizing for it. ROKA was always the dream. Now it's the job.

Will Watson

Sales · ROKA · 2× Ironman World Championship Finisher

How to work with us

Three ways in. One standard.

This is not a subscription. Not a course library. Not a certification you hang on a wall. Every path leads to the same place: a real strategy, built by people who have been inside the process for thirty years. You will not find this at a career center.

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The First Move

Free · Coming soon

Job search fundamentals for an AI-disrupted world. What we hand to every person who comes through the Academy. The map before the journey.

Complete job search playbook
How AI screening actually works
Build a network before you need one
What recruiters look for — and quietly ignore
Email list: be the first when it drops

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The Seminar Series

Limited · By enrollment

Live sessions covering the full methodology: the hidden job market, compensation literacy, IC vs. leadership track, and guest professionals from the desk.

Full curriculum, live and recorded
Startup vs. enterprise: what actually differs
Equity, RSUs, and compensation literacy
IC vs. leadership track: decide early
Austin events and rotating cities

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Private work

One on One

By application only

Two sessions directly with Andrés or Jami. Your story, your market, your strategy, built entirely for you. Not a resume review. Thirty years pointed in one direction.

Two 60-minute private sessions
Personalized market strategy
Resume and positioning review
Direct introductions where relevant

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Your instructors

Built by people who have been on both sides of the desk.

Andrés Traslaviña

Executive recruiter · 25 years

Before he ever sat behind a recruiting desk, Andrés was a Colombian kid trying to figure out how America worked. He interned at Disney World while his classmates were still picking their majors. He lived in Japan. He learned early that real human connection is the only thing that survives every economic wave and every wave of technology that promises to make people unnecessary.

Twenty-five years later, that hasn't changed. He has placed senior leaders at companies most people recognize. He has sat across from thousands of candidates, the ones who got the job and the ones who didn't, and he has seen exactly what made the difference. It was almost never the resume.

International recruiting Organizational design Structured talent assessments Leadership succession planning

Author of · A book by Andrés HAMBRE — The Latin American Professional's Edge

Jami Adkins

Executive search · talent leader

Jami graduated and walked straight into a branch manager seat at Adecco. No warm-up. No assistant title. No one holding her hand. She learned how hiring actually works before most of her peers had written their first cover letter.

From Adecco to Ajilon, then six years as managing partner at Green Leaf Search Group running executive search placements across engineering, finance, and sales. Then the corporate side: Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition at Office Depot, talent and diversity leader at Amazon, and executive search placements across some of the most competitive hiring environments in the country.

Jami knows what the people screening your resume are actually thinking. And it is not what career centers are teaching.

Leadership development Leadership retention Executive coaching Talent strategy

Author of · A book by Jami RARRE — From Imposter to Exceptional

Coming soon

The first move: a job search guide for a world that's changing.

Thirty years of recruiting. Two people who have been on both sides of every desk that exists. Distilled into the moves that actually work when the rules have changed and nobody told you. The guide drops soon. Join the email list and be the first to get it.

How to approach a job search when AI has changed who is screening you
The real difference between a resume that gets read and one that gets filtered
How to build a network before you need one, and why waiting is the mistake
What experienced recruiters actually look for, and what they quietly ignore
How to use AI to build a portfolio, website, and assets that showcase you
The one conversation that opens doors no application ever does