A Better Way to Navigate What Comes Next After Verizon

Leaving Verizon, particularly when it wasn't your choice, can be disorienting and frustrating.

You go from being part of a company with established systems, resources, relationships, and a huge internal network to suddenly having to navigate an unfamiliar job market largely on your own.

While there's certainly no shortage of job-search advice online, that's part of the problem.

What should you actually be doing? Who should you listen to? Where should you spend your time? And how do you get in front of the right people?

That's why we're building the Goalster Verizon Career Community: a private ecosystem designed specifically to help former Verizon employees navigate what's next.

Key Takeaways

• Follow a proven plan. Know what to focus on each week instead of trying to piece together your own job-search strategy.

• Get closer to recruiters. Learn directly from Talent Acquisition professionals—many of them former Verizon employees themselves.

  
  

• Tap into the Verizon alumni advantage. Connect with people and companies that understand the experience, training, and standards that come from Verizon.

  
  

• Get practical tools you can use immediately. Resume templates, job-search trackers, outreach scripts, resources, and more.

  
  

• Learn from real people every week. Live sessions focused on practical questions, recruiter insights, interviews, networking, LinkedIn, resumes, and other important topics.

  
  

• Don't navigate it alone. Join a private community of people who understand where you've come from and want to help one another move forward.

The Career Ecosystem

The goal isn't to provide another library of content or a networking group.

It's to surround people with the structure, tools, expertise, connections, and

accountability that can make a difficult job search significantly easier to navigate.

1. Your Job Search Roadmap

Know what to do next.

One of the hardest parts of a job search is determining where to focus your time.

Inside the Goalster app, members receive a structured 90-day job-search roadmap that breaks the process into the activities that matter.

Rather than simply saying "find a new job," you'll have specific actions to work through and track.

That includes things like:

• Building your target company list

• Strengthening your resume and LinkedIn presence

• Identifying and activating your network

• Creating a consistent outreach cadence

• Preparing for recruiter conversations

• Practicing interviews

• Tracking applications and follow-ups

• Maintaining weekly activity and momentum

You'll also find coaching, guidance, resources, and links embedded directly into the plan.

The objective is simple: when you start your week, you should know what you need to do and by the end of it, you should feel good about what you've accomplished.

2. A Private Verizon Career Community

A place to ask questions without broadcasting them to the world.

LinkedIn is incredibly valuable, but not every conversation belongs on LinkedIn.

Our community gives former Verizon employees a private environment where they can ask questions, share experiences, exchange ideas, celebrate progress, and help one another.

• Ask the question you're hesitant to post publicly.

• Share something that worked.

• Get feedback from someone who's been through it.

• Help another V-Teamer make a connection.

And because this is a managed community, it isn't an open marketplace for people to spam members or constantly pitch their services.

The objective is to create a genuinely useful environment built around helping people move forward.

3. A Growing Network of Recruiters

Get closer to the people who understand how hiring actually works.

We're building a network of Talent Acquisition professionals who can contribute directly to the community.

Many are former Verizon recruiters who now recruit for other organizations.

That's particularly valuable.

They understand Verizon. They understand the caliber and experience of its people. And they're now inside companies where that experience may carry significant value.

The network will continue to grow across different:

• Companies

• Industries

• Functions

• Geographies

• Levels of seniority

• Recruiting specialties

The objective isn't to promise anyone a job.

It's to reduce the distance between talented Verizon alumni and people who understand both where they've come from and how hiring actually happens.

4. Live Weekly Sessions

Learn from people who are actually doing the work.

There is an enormous amount of job-search advice online.

We'd rather give you access to people.

Each week we'll host live sessions designed around the questions and challenges members are actually facing.

Sessions may include:

• Ask-a-Recruiter Q&As

• Resume and LinkedIn tips

• Interview preparation

• Recruiter panels

• Networking strategies

• Personal branding

• Job-search strategy

• Working effectively with recruiters

• Using AI in your job search

• Hiring-manager perspectives

• Industry-specific discussions

Where possible, these sessions will be led by recruiters, Talent Acquisition leaders, hiring experts, and other practitioners with firsthand experience.

Bring your questions.

5. Practical Job-Search Tools

Don't waste time rebuilding things that already exist.

Members also get access to practical resources designed to help them execute.

That includes:

Resume Template - A clean, recruiter-friendly framework you can customize for your own experience.

Job Search Tracker - Keep target companies, applications, contacts, conversations, interviews, and follow-ups organized.

LinkedIn & Outreach Scripts - Practical examples for reconnecting with former colleagues, approaching recruiters, requesting introductions, and expanding your network.

Job Search Resources - Additional templates, guides, recordings, examples, and tools will continue to be added as the community grows.

The point isn't more content, but proven, useful tools that enable you to spend more time executing.

6. Opportunities From Within the Network

Make it easier for the right opportunities to find the right people.

As our recruiter and employer network grows, we'll also surface relevant job opportunities within the community.

Recruiters participating in the ecosystem will be able to make members aware of roles they're hiring for, and we'll highlight opportunities we believe could be particularly relevant to Verizon alumni.

We're not trying to build another giant public job board.

LinkedIn, Indeed, and others already do that exceptionally well.

We're interested in creating a more focused bridge between this community and organizations that value the talent within it.

Why Put All of This Together?

Because none of these things individually solves the problem.

A resume template doesn't solve it.

A job board doesn't solve it.

A coaching session doesn't solve it.

A networking group doesn't solve it.

An app doesn't solve it.

But combine a clear plan + practical tools + recruiter expertise + live support + community + relevant opportunities + accountability and you have something much more useful.

You have an ecosystem designed to help people execute their job search more effectively.

Why Isn't It Free?

Membership is $20/month. We intentionally kept it accessible, but we also made a deliberate decision not to make it free.

Building, operating, moderating, and continually expanding an ecosystem like this requires real work.

But there's another reason that's just as important: we want to protect the quality of the community.

Open, unrestricted communities inevitably become harder to manage. Spam appears. Solicitation increases. Coaches, resume writers, and others join primarily to find customers. Eventually, the people the community was created to help become someone else's sales leads.

We don't want that in Goalster. We'll leave that to LinkedIn.

Your membership helps us maintain the platform, organize live programming, build new resources, recruit contributors, moderate the community, and continually improve what's available.

It also creates a small barrier that helps us protect the environment we're trying to build: a private community of people who are here to help, learn, connect, and move forward.

If you're navigating a difficult career transition, you shouldn't have to wonder whether the people offering to help you are real, or are just trying to sell you something.

This is intended to be a place where Verizon alumni can get real support from people who understand where they've come from, value their experience, and genuinely want to help them get where they're going next.

Built for V-Teamers. Supported by V-Teamers.

The Verizon network doesn't disappear when you leave the company.

In many ways, it gets bigger.

Former Verizon employees are now leading teams, recruiting talent, building businesses, advising companies, and working across thousands of organizations.

Our goal is to make that network easier to access and then combine it with the structure and support required to turn connections into progress.

You still have to do the work, but the ecosystem is designed to help make that work easier by focusing you on what work matters, how to do it well, and help you along the way.

Get Started With No Long Term Commitments

We've officially launched the service and would invite you to check out our job search hub to get started.

We'd love to support your career journey.

Darren Webster is the Founder and CEO of Goalster, a technology and services company helping people and organizations achieve their most important goals through better execution, performance enablement, and ongoing development.

A former world championship-level athlete for Australia in sprint canoeing, Darren spent 15 years leading large teams at Verizon, where he developed a deep understanding of organizational performance, talent development, and goal achievement.

Driven by a passion for helping people and teams reach their full potential, Darren built Goalster as a performance enablement platform designed to drive better results through execution, coaching, training, and accountability.