Career coaching · senior tech & digital · Manchester
The next role is a route, not a leap.
Ascent is the career practice of Daniel Okorie — twelve years inside tech recruitment, now on your side of the table. For senior tech and digital professionals changing direction, level, or both.
- Professionals
- 400+
- In recruitment
- 12 yrs
- Median transition
- 6 mo
The guide
Twelve years on the other side of the hiring table.
Daniel spent twelve years in tech recruitment — the last five placing heads-of and directors into the companies you’re applying to. He has read your CV the way they read it, sat in the debriefs where candidates get cut, and knows exactly which signals move a senior application from “maybe” to “meet them”.
Ascent exists because the best route advice he ever gave was to candidates he couldn’t place — and that advice kept working.
The method
Four waypoints. One route card.
- WP 01
Base
Where you actually are: skills audit, market read, honest gaps.
- WP 02
Line
The target chosen properly — role, level, sector — not the first recruiter ping.
- WP 03
Climb
Positioning, CV, LinkedIn, interviews — run like a campaign, not a lottery.
- WP 04
Summit
Offer, negotiation, and the first 90 days planned before day one.
The elevation log
Real names. Real title changes.
- Sophie Drummond Marketing Manager became Head of Brand 9 mo +£18k
- Imran Hussain Senior Engineer became Engineering Manager 5 mo —
- Kate Nowak Agency Account Director became Client-side Product Lead 7 mo —
Names used with written consent
The full logRoutes & prices
Three routes. Prices on the page.
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Route Review
£140
90 minutes, one-off
Where you are, where the market is, and a written route card. The starting point for everyone.
Route detail -
The Ascent
£1,100
8 weeks · weekly sessions
The full climb: positioning, CV and LinkedIn rebuilt, interview rehearsal, live application campaign.
Route detail -
Summit Partnership
£2,400
4 months · exec transitions
For director-level moves: search strategy, board-level positioning, negotiation, first-90-days plan.
Route detail