You rehearse your answers. You know your resume inside and out. But when they ask, "Tell me about a time when..." you freeze. Or worse, you ramble through a generic story that doesn't land. You walk out thinking, "I'm better than how I showed up today."
The problem isn't your experience. It's that you've never been asked to articulate your value as stories, and no one taught you how.
I'm Maqbul Khan. I spent 20 years in software, built three startups, led engineering at Nutanix for 6+ years, scaled SaaS products, and built teams from scratch. By every measure, I was "qualified." Then I left Nutanix in mid-2024 and entered the job market. What I saw shocked me.
Talented professionals, engineers, product leaders, designers, were getting rejected despite having exactly what companies needed. They'd spend weeks perfecting resumes, applying everywhere, getting nowhere. When they finally landed interviews, they'd stumble through answers that didn't reflect their actual impact.
I spent thousands on career coaching. I tried every technique. And slowly, I realized: The entire process is backwards.
The real challenge, professionals do not understand their unique value and fail to articulate business impact of their work
After coaching 300+ professionals in meetups and 1-on-1 sessions, I saw the pattern clearly. The ones who succeeded weren't the ones with the best-formatted resumes. They were the ones who could tell their career stories with conviction.
So I flipped the approach. I started my training program with: "Stop. Don't touch your resume yet. First, let's uncover your impact and build your stories."
The results spoke for themselves. Out of 20 job seekers who went through the paid program, 9 landed jobs. Not because I wrote their resumes, because they finally understood what made them valuable.
Intentful.Work is an AI career reflection coach designed to solve this at the root.
Here's how it works:
First, we guide you through deep, career-specific reflection. Our AI asks questions you wouldn't ask yourself, uncovering your real strengths, the impact you've created, the stories only you can tell.
Second, we transform those reflections into authentic, impactful stories using the STAR framework.
Third, we analyze fit for roles you're targeting and help you position yourself perfectly.
Finally, we keep everything organized, your stories, your applications, your progress, in one place.
The result? You walk into interviews knowing exactly why you're different, and you can communicate it with conviction.
We're on a purposeful journey to help every professional uncover their true value and empower them to convey their business impact.
This is just the beginning. We're building more AI companions to support professionals throughout their career journey, not just job search, but growth, transitions, and long-term success.
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