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The problem
Entry-level hiring has gotten harder. Fewer roles, more applicants.
52%
of graduates are underemployed a year after they finish.
73%
of those are still underemployed a decade later.
2×
as many applications for every opening as in 2022.
What's changing in entry-level hiring
One
Entry-level jobs got promoted.
Employers rewrote job descriptions to add more seniority. The same title now asks for experience and judgment a new graduate hasn't had a chance to build, and AI now does the routine work that used to teach it.
Textbooks
One Textbook, personalized.
Investment banking's entry-level roles shifted in different ways than product management's did. Your student's Textbook covers how the work is shifting and what to do each semester to prepare. Each semester it's updated with feedback from mentors in the field.
Two
The apprenticeship is gone.
The first two years of a career used to be where you learned the job, with someone senior correcting your work. That structure has thinned. Graduates are now expected to arrive already knowing the job.
Coaching
One Coach, twice a month.
One person who knows your student, term after term: building the plan, asking what an interviewer will ask, and noticing when your student drifts. It's the apprenticeship, starting four years before the job instead of after it.
Three
The application pile is too big to read.
AI makes applying almost free, so openings now draw more than twice as many applications as in 2022, and software filters most of them. To get through, an application has to stand out to a computer, or the student has to know someone.
Connections
One Mentor Network, at least twice a semester.
Your student talks with people doing the job now, from new hires to executives. Mentors give real feedback, explain the job from the inside, and get to know your student and their work.
Sources: 52% and 73%, Burning Glass Institute and Strada (2024). Fewer roles, more applicants, Handshake (2025). Twice as many applications, Greenhouse (2026): 116 per job in 2022, 244 in 2025.
Every Textbook covers up to four years, from the first conversation to three months into the first job. Each Textbook has several tracks, and each track runs on its own calendar: its hiring windows, its interviews, the people your student needs to meet. Pick an area to see a typical plan, term by term.
Too many families wait until too late in their college career. By then too many of the decisions on this page have already been made.
Students join any time from First Year through Third Year, and the work compresses to fit. A later start is more intensive, and in some fields the earliest windows will already have closed.
It's your student. You should be able to see it working.
Parents get an update from the coach after each session: what your student worked on, what's next, where they stand against the calendar. What your student says in a session doesn't go home. Your student chooses how much detail you see.
Session update · SampleOn track
Maya · Second Year · Finance & Professional Services
Finished the networking lesson and sent four outreach notes
Mentor conversation with an investment banking associate
Mock interview with her coach: strong story, technicals next
Next up
Applications for the summer after Third Year open in November. Resume final by mid-October.
John Sheffield, Founder and CEO
Who's behind it
I graduated from Yale after four years of varsity football, with a degree and no real career plan. It took a mentor who made the time, vouched for me, and opened doors until I found my footing.
That crossing has gotten much harder. It's easier than ever to send in an application and harder than ever to talk to a person. Causeway is the help I wish I'd had: a coach, a plan, and connections to people already doing the work, from the first semester to the first job.
Tuition and payment options are covered on the call.
Finance & Professional Services
Tech & AI
Entrepreneurship
Entertainment & Media
Real Estate
Sports Industry
Exploratory
Example shown:the Investment Banking track, one of 7 in this Textbook.See every track
What students aim for
The analyst internship in the summer after Third Year is the most direct route to a full-time banking offer, and banks fill it during Second Year, a full year earlier than one might expect. The networking and technical preparation has to be done before the window opens.
When one door closes...
Management consulting, wealth management, accounting, corporate finance programs, private equity, and venture capital, the other tracks in this Textbook, each hire on their own clock, often later in the year and through smaller, more personal processes. Middle-market banks, regional banks, and smaller boutique firms recruit on their own timelines too, often with a handful of seats filled through people they already know, and the technical skills carry across all of them.
TermHiring windowsMentor conversations
First YearFirst Year
EntryGetting started
Finance & Professional ServicesFirst Year · entry
Getting started
Where your student is starting, how much runway they have in a field that recruits a year earlier than families expect, and how banking differs from the other finance tracks.
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Compare the Five Finance Tracks
No mentor conversations this term
SpringThe foundation
Finance & Professional ServicesFirst Year · spring
The foundation
Accounting on the schedule, the coffee chat as the industry's basic unit, a first résumé in its strict format, and two tracks seen from the inside.
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Track Contacts and Follow-Ups
2 mentor conversations this term
SummerTechnical summer
Finance & Professional ServicesFirst summer
Technical summer
A week-by-week technical plan for the summer, alongside whatever work the summer holds, and a first wave of outreach to alumni and analysts at the banks on the list.
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Build Your First Finance Work Sample
No mentor conversations this term
IB Technical Drills: the weekly quiz bank
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Applications and Plan Summer Recruiting
2 mentor conversations this term
Making the Summer Matter
No mentor conversations this term
Compare Three Career Paths
2 mentor conversations this term
Negotiate Scope When Salary Is Fixed
2 mentor conversations this term
Planning the Summer Before Fall Recruiting
No mentor conversations this term
Run Your Full-Time Job Search
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Your Graduation Plan
2 mentor conversations this term
Check-In (month 2)
No mentor conversations this term
A typical year in the Investment Banking track of the Finance & Professional Services Textbook.
the Product Management (AI-Era PM) track, one of 4 in this Textbook.
Every Recruiting Deadline in Your First Year
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Compare the Four Tech Tracks
2 mentor conversations this term
Check-In (x2)
No mentor conversations this term
the Venture-Scale Founder track, one of 4 in this Textbook.
Five Ways to Own a Business, and the Path to Test Next
No mentor conversations this term
Customer Discovery and the Interview
2 mentor conversations this term
Setting Up the Summer, and the Debrief You Are Building Toward
No mentor conversations this term
the The Representation Path (Agencies & Management) track, one of 5 in this Textbook.
Build Your Entertainment Recruiting Calendar
No mentor conversations this term
The Assistant Desk, and the Five Entertainment Tracks
2 mentor conversations this term
The Summer Check-In, Twice
No mentor conversations this term
the Real Estate Private Equity and Investment track, one of 5 in this Textbook.
Your Time Before Graduation, and What It Costs You
No mentor conversations this term
Real-Estate Fundamentals, the Five Tracks and the Track Decision
2 mentor conversations this term
Review the Semester and Plan the Summer
No mentor conversations this term
the Franchise Management & Operations track, one of 4 in this Textbook.
The Athletic Department Is Your Closest Employer
No mentor conversations this term
Coursework and Outreach That Serve Your Track
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Progress During the Summer
No mentor conversations this term
Count your remaining terms and map your recruiting deadlines
No mentor conversations this term
Networking 101 and the Informational Interview
2 mentor conversations this term
Debriefing Your First Summer While the Details Are Fresh
No mentor conversations this term
Plan Applications Around Verified Deadlines
2 mentor conversations this term
Associate PM Programs: the Calendar, the Application and the Other Routes
2 mentor conversations this term
Making the Summer Special (Tech)
No mentor conversations this term
The Full-Time Campaign and the Startup Search (Tech)
2 mentor conversations this term
Choose Your Next Employers to Contact
2 mentor conversations this term
Bridge Check-In (x2)
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Work Through Your Current Application Deadlines
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Progress and Resolve the Next Obstacle
2 mentor conversations this term
The Gap Between Signing and Starting (Tech)
No mentor conversations this term
A typical year in the Product Management (AI-Era PM) track of the Tech & AI Textbook.
Workshop 7: Getting Your First Customers
2 mentor conversations this term
Workshop 12: Pitch Day (the event kit)
2 mentor conversations this term
Summer 2 for Entrepreneurship: Set Your Own Standard
No mentor conversations this term
Deal Terms and Structuring
2 mentor conversations this term
Plan a Fundraising or Loan Process
2 mentor conversations this term
Finish and Review Your Summer Business Project
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The First 100 Days
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Progress and the Next Obstacle
2 mentor conversations this term
The First Three Months of Actually Owning It
No mentor conversations this term
A typical year in the Venture-Scale Founder track of the Entrepreneurship Textbook.
Plan Applications Around Verified Deadlines
2 mentor conversations this term
How the Training Programs Actually Work
2 mentor conversations this term
Plan Useful Work During Your Internship
No mentor conversations this term
The Full-Time Campaign (Entertainment)
2 mentor conversations this term
When Autumn Seats Are Decided
2 mentor conversations this term
Planning the Last Summer Before Autumn Hiring
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Converting a Summer Into a Seat
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Progress and Resolve the Next Obstacle
2 mentor conversations this term
Planning the Weeks Before Your Start Date, and the Move
No mentor conversations this term
A typical year in the The Representation Path (Agencies & Management) track of the Entertainment & Media Textbook.
Plan Applications Around Verified Deadlines, and Reconnect Before You Ask
2 mentor conversations this term
The REPE Modeling Test
2 mentor conversations this term
Plan Useful Work During Your Internship
No mentor conversations this term
The Investment Committee Memo
2 mentor conversations this term
Choose Your Next Employers to Contact
2 mentor conversations this term
Planning the summer before your job search
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Deciding, and Moving
2 mentor conversations this term
Every Check-In Ends With One Dated Action
2 mentor conversations this term
The Gap Between Signing and Starting
No mentor conversations this term
A typical year in the Real Estate Private Equity and Investment track of the Real Estate Textbook.
Present Your Work and Share One Useful Example
2 mentor conversations this term
The Sports Interview
2 mentor conversations this term
The last three weeks: leaving well, and asking about coming back
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When Roles Actually Open
2 mentor conversations this term
Choose Employers and Schedule Your Outreach
2 mentor conversations this term
The summer before the hiring season
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Finding Roles Before They Are Posted
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Progress and Resolve the Next Obstacle
2 mentor conversations this term
The handoff, and a career-long network
No mentor conversations this term
A typical year in the Franchise Management & Operations track of the Sports Industry Textbook.
Share One Useful Example of Your Work
2 mentor conversations this term
Explain What You Have Tested in an Interview
2 mentor conversations this term
Debriefing the Summer and Choosing the Direction to Pursue Next
No mentor conversations this term
Workshop 13: Mapping Your Destination's Application Process
2 mentor conversations this term
Choose Your Next Employers to Contact
2 mentor conversations this term
Planning the Summer Before Hiring Opens
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Select and Explain Your Best Work
2 mentor conversations this term
Review Progress and Resolve the Next Obstacle
2 mentor conversations this term
Your First Ninety Days
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A typical year in the Exploratory Textbook.
Second Year
Second Year
Fall
Ready before the window
Third Year summer recruiting
Finance & Professional Services
Second Year · fall
Ready before the window
Coffee chats with analysts and associates at every target firm, so the relationships and referrals are in place before applications open; weekly technical drills; the automated screens; and every firm's calendar mapped. Apply the day a window opens to both Second Year insight programs and internships for the summer after Third Year.
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Spring
The campaign
Finance & Professional Services
Second Year · spring
The campaign
Recruiting for the summer after Third Year: interviews drilled to a standard, preparation firm by firm, and an honest read from a mentor while it can still change the plan. It ends with a re-plan, whatever came back.
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Summer
Second Year summer
Finance & Professional Services
Second summer
Second Year summer
A boutique, wealth, corporate finance, or research role that builds the record, coached like any internship.
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Third Year
Third Year
Fall
The long view
Later-moving firms
Finance & Professional Services
Third Year · fall
The long view
Later-moving firms still recruiting, where first seats lead over ten years, and graduate school timed right.
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Spring
Lock the list
Finance & Professional Services
Third Year · spring
Lock the list
The post-graduation list locked, relationships kept warm without asking for anything, and the launch plan drafted.
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Summer
Third Year summer
Third Year summer internship
Finance & Professional Services
Third summer
Third Year summer
For most, the summer that decides the offer: the work done well, and the return-offer conversation handled right. Coached through the summer.
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Fourth Year
Fourth Year
Fall
Offers, or the backstop
Offers, or backstop search
Finance & Professional Services
Fourth Year · fall
Offers, or the backstop
Deciding on a return offer, or a full-time search for students without one.
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Spring
Support
Finance & Professional Services
Fourth Year · spring
Support
A standing monthly session against the launch plan, through a semester when everything else competes for attention.
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After
After graduation
3 months
Start
Finance & Professional Services
After graduation
Start
The gap between signing and starting, the first ninety days on a desk, or a search that's still going. Later tracks are still hiring.
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Main application window
Other hiring
What most students aim for
Mentor conversation
Hiring calendars shift from year to year and firm to firm, so the exact dates live inside the program: your student's coach tracks the live calendar and changes the plan when it moves.
Example shown:
See every track
What students aim for
Google's and Meta's associate product manager programs take applications once a year, in a window of a few weeks each fall of Fourth Year, and each takes very few people. The internship in the summer after Third Year is the larger route to a full-time seat. Large tech companies post more than a third of their internships in September and October.
When one door closes...
Software engineering, technical sales, and the founder track are the other tracks in this Textbook. Engineering hires on a rolling basis all year, and sales hires continuously. A founder's start date is the day the product exists. Banks, retailers, airlines, and hospital systems hire product managers too. Financial firms' internships draw fewer applicants per posting than tech companies' do. Product analyst, product operations, and technical program manager roles are jobs a new graduate can apply to, and each leads into product management. Smaller companies keep hiring into spring and after graduation.
Term
Hiring windows
Mentor conversations
First Year
First Year
Entry
Getting started
First-year programs
Tech & AI
First Year · entry
Getting started
The kickoff conversation, a count of the terms and summers left, and every first-year recruiting deadline, some of which pass before your student arrives.
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Spring
Four tracks
Tech & AI
First Year · spring
Four tracks
The four tracks compared by first job and how it hires, courses picked before registration, first public work, and mentor conversations in two different tracks.
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Summer
Build in summer
Tech & AI
First summer
Build in summer
Technical work finished and published by September, when postings return, a summer role from three lists of options, and two sessions with the coach.
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Second Year
Second Year
Fall
The track and the work
Second-summer recruiting
Tech & AI
Second Year · fall
The track and the work
The track confirmed, one piece of work a stranger can open, every target sorted as fixed, rolling, or relationship-only, and first introductions. Large tech companies post more internships in September and October than in any other months.
Example shown:
See every track
What students aim for
A venture-scale company needs a live product, real users, and honest growth numbers before investors say yes, and investors back very few companies. Accelerators publish their deadlines. Y Combinator's close the semester before each batch. The average founder of the fastest-growing new U.S. companies is 45, so the college years are for evidence: something small built, sold, and tested.
When one door closes...
Bootstrapped ownership, the family enterprise, and the Operator Track are the other tracks in this Textbook. A bootstrapped business needs one paying customer and can start this semester. A family enterprise runs on the family's calendar. The Operator Track is a job search at small and early-stage companies, which hire when a need comes up, through people they already know. A student who wants to buy a company later reads the Operator Track. With less than about two years left, the venture path narrows to a live product with real users and honest numbers.
Term
Hiring windows
Mentor conversations
First Year
First Year
Entry
Getting started
Entrepreneurship
First Year · entry
Getting started
The kickoff conversation, the terms and summers left, and the five ways to own a business, each on its own timeline.
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Spring
A real problem
Entrepreneurship
First Year · spring
A real problem
One real problem tested in customer interviews, a first unit priced and costed, an ownership path chosen, and mentor hours on two different paths.
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Summer
First summer
Entrepreneurship
First summer
First summer
Summer options from three lists, including one your student can start alone, with outside deadlines found first. Some accelerator deadlines fall in July.
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Second Year
Second Year
Fall
First customers
Entrepreneurship
Second Year · fall
First customers
The Capstone, your student's own venture, scoped for the year. Five real people asked to buy, one channel tested for two weeks, and an operator's read of the plan.
Previous term
Example shown:
See every track
What students aim for
In representation, the first seat this track prepares for is an agency training program after graduation: reception, the mailroom, then a floating assistant. Some agencies post a dated class with a short window, in late fall of Fourth Year or in June after graduation. Others keep a posting up year-round. Agents fill open desks from the assistants already working there.
When one door closes...
Studio and streamer corporate, creative development, music and live, and production technology, the other tracks in this Textbook, each hire on their own calendar. Studio internships post from fall through winter for the next summer and take only enrolled students. The live lane hires most in summer. Management and small production companies post close to nothing, and many fill seats through someone who has seen the student's work.
Term
Hiring windows
Mentor conversations
First Year
First Year
Entry
Getting started
Entertainment & Media
First Year · entry
Getting started
The kickoff and a door calendar: each program's date checked at its source, with a preparation date six to eight weeks ahead.
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Spring
The landscape
Entertainment & Media
First Year · spring
The landscape
The nine businesses inside entertainment, a choice among five tracks, how an assistant desk and the mailroom work, script coverage, and first mentor conversations.
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Summer
First summer
Entertainment & Media
First summer
First summer
Work in or next to the business: an agency program, or a boutique management company, a literary agency, or an entertainment law office.
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Second Year
Second Year
Fall
Build the case
Summer internship applications
Entertainment & Media
Second Year · fall
Build the case
The track confirmed, coverage with a call on each piece read, the target list checked and dated against three kinds of calendar, and first introductions.
Example shown:
See every track
What students aim for
The direct route to a real estate private equity fund is the summer analyst internship after Third Year. Large funds take applications for it in Second Year spring. The modeling, underwriting, and conversations behind an application are built in First Year spring and Second Year fall. Some funds use that internship to choose their full-time analysts.
When one door closes...
Development and acquisitions, the two brokerage routes, and lending and capital markets, the other tracks in this Textbook, each hire on their own clock. A student can also reach a fund after a first seat in brokerage, lending, asset management, or real estate banking. That route is open at every entry point. Smaller funds hire off-cycle, by referral, when a deal or a fund closes. Most real estate businesses have fewer than five employees.
Term
Hiring windows
Mentor conversations
First Year
First Year
Entry
Getting started
Real Estate
First Year · entry
Getting started
The kickoff, and a count of the terms and summers left before graduation. For a student aiming at a fund, Causeway uses that count to decide whether it can still run the direct route.
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Spring
The foundation
Real Estate
First Year · spring
The foundation
Real estate fundamentals, a first pro forma, the map of who does what with a property, first mentor conversations, and the track decision. Causeway asks a student on the direct fund route to choose it by the end of this term.
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Summer
First summer
Real Estate
First summer
First summer
Real work that puts numbers on the page: a regional owner-operator, asset management at a listed owner, or valuation at an appraisal firm.
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Second Year
Second Year
Fall
Ready before the window
Real Estate
Second Year · fall
Ready before the window
Full underwriting and the capital stack, returns and the waterfall, the automated screens, the track locked, and every fund's dates mapped before applications open.
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See every track
What students aim for
There's no single deadline. Team and league front offices hire against the season, with few published windows and hundreds of applicants for each opening. Introductions matter more than applications, and many front-office careers start in ticket or inside sales, or in a paid seasonal role after graduation.
When one door closes...
Athlete representation, analytics, and sports law, the other tracks in this Textbook, each hire their own way, and college athletics, minor-league clubs, venues, and brands hire throughout the year. Sales and game-day roles are real starting points, and the experience travels across the industry.
Term
Hiring windows
Mentor conversations
First Year
First Year
Entry
Getting started
Athletic department
Sports Industry
First Year · entry
Getting started
The kickoff conversation, and the first place to look for work: the athletic department a short walk from the dorm.
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Spring
The landscape
Sports Industry
First Year · spring
The landscape
How a team's business actually runs, where operations sits in it, ticket and inside sales as a front door, and first mentor conversations for listening.
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Summer
First summer
Sports Industry
First summer
First summer
Real work around sports: the athletic department, a ticket office, a minor-league club.
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Second Year
Second Year
Fall
Build the case
Sports Industry
Second Year · fall
Build the case
One real project someone in the business would take seriously, a target list mapped against each organization's season, and first introductions.
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the Exploratory Textbook
, for students who haven't chosen a field yet. Students move into a field Textbook when they're ready, or stay in Exploratory for a field outside our Textbooks.
See every Textbook
What students aim for
Choosing a field by the end of Third Year fall, with the deadlines that matter kept in view. In fields like investment banking and tech, the earliest internship cycles start in Second Year, so the plan keeps those doors in sight while your student explores. Fields that hire through relationships give more time, but the relationships take years to build, so exploring starts now.
When one door closes...
Every field Textbook is open to an Exploratory student, and changing course later is expected. A student headed for a field we don't have a Textbook for can stay in Exploratory: the textbook is more general, but the coaching continues and we find mentors in that field. What carries over: the habits, the way your student talks to people who do the work, and a record of what they tried and why they moved.
Term
Hiring windows
Mentor conversations
First Year
First Year
Entry
Getting started
Exploratory
First Year · entry
Getting started
Where your student is starting and what they already know about themselves. No career decision is made yet, and starting undecided is the normal place to begin.
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Spring
Try and test
First-year programs
Exploratory
First Year · spring
Try and test
Testing fields against your student's own evidence, and first mentor conversations across fields.
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Summer
A first real test
Exploratory
First summer
A first real test
A summer job, project, or shadowing chosen to test one field, not to impress.
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Second Year
Second Year
Fall
Narrowing
Exploratory
Second Year · fall
Narrowing
Fields narrowed to two or three, each checked against its calendar: which deadlines are coming, and what it takes to be ready for them.
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Spring
The campaign
Tech & AI
Second Year · spring
The campaign
Applications run from one tracker, the product interview drilled with mocks, a written teardown and spec, and every product program logged with its dates. Smaller companies are still hiring in spring.
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Summer
Second Year summer
Tech & AI
Second summer
Second Year summer
An internship or project, coached: a standard set in week one, three people met outside the team, and one question about coming back.
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Third Year
Third Year
Fall
Third Year summer applications
Third Year summer recruiting
Tech & AI
Third Year · fall
Third Year summer applications
The return-offer conversation, intern versions of the product programs searched for in September, a ten-year map from three real careers, and graduate school weighed.
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Spring
Lock the list
Tech & AI
Third Year · spring
Lock the list
The post-graduation list locked at 15 to 25 employers, contacts planned back from the week hiring opens, and the launch plan drafted.
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Summer
Third Year summer
Third Year summer internship
Tech & AI
Third summer
Third Year summer
For many, an internship that leads to a full-time offer. Coached through the summer, with application materials finished in August and five things dated before September.
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Fourth Year
Fourth Year
Fall
The window
Full-time hiring and product programs
Tech & AI
Fourth Year · fall
The window
Full-time hiring opens, and the product programs take applications for two to four weeks. The return-offer ask, one ledger of every window, and preparation for each interview.
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Spring
Support
Smaller companies still hiring
Tech & AI
Fourth Year · spring
Support
A monthly session against the launch plan. Smaller companies keep hiring through spring and after graduation.
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After
After graduation
3 months
Start
Tech & AI
After graduation
Start
The gap between signing and starting, the first ninety days, or a search that's still going. Six in ten tech jobs are at banks, hospitals, insurers, retailers, and other employers outside tech.
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Main application window
Other hiring
What most students aim for
Mentor conversation
Hiring calendars shift from year to year and firm to firm, so the exact dates live inside the program: your student's coach tracks the live calendar and changes the plan when it moves.
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Spring
Pitch Day
Pitch Day
Entrepreneurship
Second Year · spring
Pitch Day
Pricing and cash flow, how equity and debt work, and a first contractor or co-founder. Pitch Day: the Capstone presented to a panel of operators, who each give three lines of feedback.
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Summer
Second Year summer
Accelerator batch, for some
Entrepreneurship
Second summer
Second Year summer
Full time on the Capstone, or inside an accelerator batch for some. A standard set in week one, since no supervisor reviews the work, and three people met outside the venture.
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Third Year
Third Year
Fall
Systems and terms
Entrepreneurship
Third Year · fall
Systems and terms
Recurring work turned into systems, how a term sheet divides the money, a negotiation practiced against a mentor, and a ten-year map.
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Raise, or wait
Raise or accelerator deadline
Entrepreneurship
Third Year · spring
Raise, or wait
A dated decision on raising money, borrowing, or neither this year, with the investor list and materials if raising. A launch plan with months of runway and the month to change course.
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Summer
Third Year summer
Entrepreneurship
Third summer
Third Year summer
The Capstone finished: one growth number moved toward a dated raise or accelerator deadline, with the investor or accelerator who will see it named.
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Fourth Year
Fourth Year
Fall
Launch
Going full time
Entrepreneurship
Fourth Year · fall
Launch
The first hundred days of running the company full time planned, the launch plan checked against what happened, and the last mentor hours.
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Support
Entrepreneurship
Fourth Year · spring
Support
A standing session against the launch plan your student already wrote, with one dated action each time.
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After
After graduation
3 months
Start
Entrepreneurship
After graduation
Start
The first three months as an owner, one session a month. Each starts with the cash number and names the sign that the business is not working.
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Other hiring
What most students aim for
Mentor conversation
Hiring calendars shift from year to year and firm to firm, so the exact dates live inside the program: your student's coach tracks the live calendar and changes the plan when it moves.
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Spring
The campaign
Entertainment & Media
Second Year · spring
The campaign
Summer applications, plus mocks and taste tests with people who hire. Your student also learns how agency training programs assess people, a year or two before applying.
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Summer
Second Year summer
Entertainment & Media
Second summer
Second Year summer
An internship, coached: a standard set in the first two weeks, the task nobody wants, people met outside the team, and the return conversation.
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Third Year
Third Year
Fall
The long view
Summer internship applications
Entertainment & Media
Third Year · fall
The long view
The ten-year plan, graduate school weighed, the full-time search drawn across four channels, and how roles circulate before they post.
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Spring
Lock the list
Entertainment & Media
Third Year · spring
Lock the list
The post-graduation list locked, the people to ask and when, the launch plan built, and the month fall seats are decided.
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Summer
Third Year summer
Entertainment & Media
Third summer
Third Year summer
The last summer before fall hiring, with a weekly work slot on a named day and two sessions with the coach. The cost of a move to Los Angeles or New York is worked out here.
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Fourth Year
Fourth Year
Fall
The window
Agency training class deadlines
Entertainment & Media
Fourth Year · fall
The window
Applications to agency classes with late-fall deadlines, turning a summer into a seat, preparation for each real interview, and deciding on an offer.
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Support
Year-round postings, and a June class
Entertainment & Media
Fourth Year · spring
Support
A standing monthly session against the launch plan. Agencies with year-round postings take applications in any month.
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After
After graduation
3 months
Start
Entertainment & Media
After graduation
Start
The weeks before a start date and the move, the first ninety days on a desk, or a search that's still going. An agency's June class deadline can fall inside these three months.
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Main application window
Other hiring
What most students aim for
Mentor conversation
Hiring calendars shift from year to year and firm to firm, so the exact dates live inside the program: your student's coach tracks the live calendar and changes the plan when it moves.
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Spring
The campaign
Fund summer analyst applications
Real Estate
Second Year · spring
The campaign
Applications to large funds' summer analyst programs, the timed modeling test practiced twice, mock deal reviews with a principal, and preparation firm by firm.
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Summer
Second Year summer
Real Estate
Second summer
Second Year summer
An internship that builds the record: output logged weekly with numbers, three people met outside the team, and the unwanted work taken on.
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Third Year
Third Year
Fall
The long view
Other firms' summer programs
Real Estate
Third Year · fall
The long view
The investment committee memo, structuring and joint ventures, the ten-year map, and the full-time search drawn across four channels. Brokerage and real estate banking summer programs post this term, and those seats also lead to funds.
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Spring
Lock the list
Real Estate
Third Year · spring
Lock the list
Acquisitions end to end, the post-graduation list locked, graduate school weighed, and the launch plan drafted.
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Summer
Third Year summer
Third Year summer internship
Real Estate
Third summer
Third Year summer
For a student on the direct route, the fund internship. The plan names what the summer is for and dates everything that has to exist before Fourth Year fall.
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Fourth Year
Fourth Year
Fall
Offers, or the window
Full-time analyst classes
Real Estate
Fourth Year · fall
Offers, or the window
Deciding on an offer, or applying to the full-time analyst classes large funds post in Fourth Year fall. The capstone is defended to a practitioner in the track.
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Spring
Support
Real Estate
Fourth Year · spring
Support
A standing monthly session against the launch plan. Small firms hire when a deal closes or someone leaves, on no campus calendar.
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After
After graduation
3 months
Start
Real Estate
After graduation
Start
The gap between signing and starting, the first ninety days, or a search that's still going. Until there is a start date, a session runs each month.
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Main application window
Other hiring
What most students aim for
Mentor conversation
Hiring calendars shift from year to year and firm to firm, so the exact dates live inside the program: your student's coach tracks the live calendar and changes the plan when it moves.
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Spring
First internships
Internship applications
Sports Industry
Second Year · spring
First internships
Internship applications, many posted in spring; the conversational sports interview; mocks with people who hire. It ends with a re-plan.
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Summer
Second Year summer
Sports Industry
Second summer
Second Year summer
An internship or seasonal role, coached: do the work, build relationships across departments, ask about coming back.
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Third Year
Third Year
Fall
The long view
Sports Industry
Third Year · fall
The long view
Sports ladders are long: the ten-year map, when roles actually open, and the full-time plan.
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Spring
Second internships
Internship applications
Sports Industry
Third Year · spring
Second internships
A second round of applications, and a post-graduation list that includes seasonal roles as a planned route.
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Third Year summer
Sports Industry
Third summer
Third Year summer
A second, more advanced placement, coached through the summer.
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Fourth Year
Fourth Year
Fall
The window
Entry-level hiring, by season
Sports Industry
Fourth Year · fall
The window
Asking a former manager for the job, finding roles before they're posted, and preparing for each real interview.
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Spring
Support
Sports Industry
Fourth Year · spring
Support
Monthly sessions against the launch plan. Hiring keeps moving with the seasons.
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After graduation
3 months
Start
Sports Industry
After graduation
Start
Jobs start against a season rather than a date. Coaching continues through the first ninety days, or through the search.
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Main application window
Other hiring
What most students aim for
Mentor conversation
Hiring calendars shift from year to year and firm to firm, so the exact dates live inside the program: your student's coach tracks the live calendar and changes the plan when it moves.
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Spring
Testing up close
Earliest internship cycles
Exploratory
Second Year · spring
Testing up close
Each remaining field tested up close through a project, a short program, or a shadow day, with a mentor conversation in each.
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Summer
A summer in the leading field
Exploratory
Second summer
A summer in the leading field
Work in the field your student is leaning toward, coached like any internship and chosen to confirm it or rule it out.
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Third Year
Third Year
Fall
The choice
Field chosen
Exploratory
Third Year · fall
The choice
A field Textbook and track chosen by the end of the term, or a decision to stay in Exploratory for a field outside our Textbooks, with a plan to catch up wherever the field's calendar is already moving.
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Telling the story
The field's own calendar takes over
Exploratory
Third Year · spring
Telling the story
Applications in the chosen field, with the exploring framed as a strength rather than a delay.
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Summer
Third Year summer
Exploratory
Third summer
Third Year summer
For many, the summer that leads to an offer, coached through the summer.
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Fourth Year
Fourth Year
Fall
Offers, or the search
Exploratory
Fourth Year · fall
Offers, or the search
Deciding on an offer, or a full-time search run on the chosen field's calendar.
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Spring
Support
Exploratory
Fourth Year · spring
Support
A standing monthly session against the launch plan, through a semester when everything else competes for attention.
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After
After graduation
3 months
Start
Exploratory
After graduation
Start
The first ninety days of the new job, or a search that's still going.
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Main application window
Other hiring
What most students aim for
Mentor conversation
Hiring calendars shift from year to year and firm to firm, so the exact dates live inside the program: your student's coach tracks the live calendar and changes the plan when it moves.
