Ready Aim Interview, a communications coaching company, helps individuals turn up to their next tech interview with the confidence and preparation needed to ace every stage and assert their true value. Founded by Jonathan Corrales, a software industry veteran with 20 years of experience, the company puts to use his career of mentorship for clients to succeed at the highest-level interviews at the biggest tech companies on the planet. Jonathan’s coaching services began in late 2024 with a mission for tech workers to reclaim their confidence in today’s shaky job market.
As an ambitious computer science student at university, Jonathan belonged to both the prestigious international honor society Upsilon Pi Epsilon and his school’s chapter of the Association for Computer Machinery. Meanwhile, the rest of his department was experiencing a serious attrition issue with the number of students dropping out of college, a result of the sheer difficulty of his major. So, when his professors began a voluntary tutoring program that required 20 unpaid hours a week, Jonathan jumped at the opportunity to help his peers out.
“I got so much positive feedback in my time as a tutor. I was mentoring students, interns, colleagues, even people that were in the year above me.” Looking at the current state of the job economy in his graduate field, Jonathan reminisces, “I was learning about the layoffs, and I just remembered how rewarding it was to help people succeed at these high-stakes goals like passing finals.”
As he moves through this trajectory of collecting skills he could offer guidance on, Jonathan learns that he’s quite good at interviews. Right out of college in 2006, he started working at the US Patent and Trademark Office. He then worked as a software engineer in federal defense contracting and state government from 2007 to 2021. Afterward, he transitioned to private companies, working as a program manager at three startups and a Fortune 500 company. And in 15 out of those 20 years, Jonathan worked as a hiring manager, interviewing over 600 applicants for technical positions that ranged from systems administrator to project manager.
In 2022, the mass tech layoffs started and haven’t stopped since. It was one such layoff that sparked his dire need to found Ready Aim Interview. “Last year, a good friend of mine was let go right before Thanksgiving. Right before the holidays. That’s when I thought: I wanted to help people that were laid off to get back to work quickly, even if it’s just in getting people through the door,” he recalls. So, in late 2023, Jonathan started his company. His first client, a woman who had just entered her H-1B visa’s grace period after being laid off, got a new job in 8 weeks. He states, “That’s when I decided to stick with this.”
His company coaches individuals with any amount of experience in the tech industry, from business analysts to software engineers to UX designers, from juniors to senior developers, and from people in their mid-20s to their early 70s. Through his vast and varied decade-and-a-half experience in hiring, Jonathan knows he can precisely guide his clients through the ins and outs of any product-centered tech position. What galvanizes him into action is his first-hand experience of the distraught and self-dissolution people experience when they lose their jobs, and the self-doubt embedded within the process of searching for a new one.
“I’ve had people unable to advocate for themselves and negotiate their worths. I’ve spoken to individuals who report feelings of worthlessness when they receive no feedback after interviews. I’ve had people cry on calls with me after rejections,” says Jonathan, “People are being destroyed by this job market. It kills their confidence.” In response, his coaching strategies revolve around rebuilding his clients’ confidence— both in communicating their value during interviews and in achieving that next step in their careers.
Ready Aim Interview’s services run the gamut of the job-search process, from CV and cover letter writing to the behavioral and technical interview stages. Offering a holistic, white glove service, the company provides salary negotiation, networking, and search strategies as well. “Though, for me, the most fun part is in interview preparation. That’s where I know I can make the most difference because that’s where people show their worth,” notes Jonathan.
Sticking with his clients until they get that ‘Congratulations!...’ email, Jonathan is dedicated to achieving his clients’ missions and continuing their lasting careers. As he concludes, “I teach them all of the things that have worked for me for years, throughout my career. That’s my way of making a small dent in the job market, getting people back to work, and getting people their confidence back.”
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