The Program

A plan, and the team to see it through

Most students treat their career like a paper due at the end of the semester. They intend to start, and by the time it feels urgent, the best time to approach it has passed.

Causeway gives your student a plan someone else is holding, and a person who holds them to it.

Find out if Causeway is right for your student

Coaching

One Coach, twice a month

A Causeway coach is an experienced professional who has been on both sides of hiring processes, not someone whose career has only been giving advice about it. They've read the stack of resumes, asked the hard questions, made the call, and seen the results. They understand the specific problem your student now has: how a twenty-something with no track record fits into a process built to filter on past performance. They know what their field's bar is becoming and they're here to help your student break into it.

Each term starts with a plan. The coach builds it from your student's Textbook and fits it to where your student actually is: which chapters, which work, which people to connect with, and what their particular field's calendar demands this term.

Your student has work between meetings. In sessions the coach pushes your student like an interviewer and then debriefs like a coach.

Twice a month during the school year, once a month in summer. Designed to teach, support, and hold accountable.

About two hours a week in most terms, more during recruiting season.

Curriculum

One Textbook, personalized

A Textbook is the curriculum for each career field: what the job of that career actually looks like, how people get hired into it, what skills are necessary during the interview, what the calendar runs on, and what your student should be building each term to be ready. One for each field, each with Editions underneath for different routes inside the broader career field (for example, Investment banking within Finance & Professional Services, or Sports analytics within Sports Industry). Nobody gets handed the whole Textbook; instead it's curated each semester by your student's coach for the chapters, lessons, and resources most necessary for where they are today and what they need for tomorrow.

Where it comes from. We built these on three things: published research on how entry-level hiring is actually changing, which we keep current as new work comes out; conversations with people currently working in these fields; and conversations with people whose job is getting students hired, who watch the same mistakes repeat.

Why it never sits still. Every Textbook is designed to keep evolving and improving. Coaches add to it after each recruiting cycle. Mentors working in the field read it and tell us what to sharpen. Research comes out constantly about how AI is changing hiring. Hiring calendars and expectations shift every year. A static textbook is a dated textbook.

See the Textbooks

Connections

One Mentor Network, at least twice a semester

In a world where many job applications don't make it past a computer, we work to build authentic connections between your student and professionals in their desired industry.

At least twice a semester your student sits down with someone doing the job now. Your student will meet with new hires and executives within their industry field to validate their interest in the work and connect with others in the industry.

The conversations move with the calendar. Freshman year they center on what work is really like, because many students are choosing between fields they've only seen on television. Sophomore year they're largely about how to get in. By junior year, your student is talking to people who have cleared their firm's process recently enough to remember what the second round dives into. The network spans the whole ladder deliberately. A CEO and a new hire are both important conversations, which each tell you different things.

We also focus on building skills and structure so that the network your student is building is not just for getting one job, but in background and available for the career shifts that come 5, 10, 25 years later.

Read about the Mentor Network

One Textbook, one term

A semester, in detail

To comeThe sample semester, one Textbook and one term session by session, is being made.

Session	When	What happens

What we're not

We don't place students in jobs. We're not a replacement for the career center, and we'll send your student there for what it does well. We don't write applications, resumes, or essays. The work is the student's, which is the only way any of it counts.

Getting started

The first thirty days

Your student gets a welcome email and books a discovery session with their coach. Together they work through what your student is drawn to, what they’ve already done, and what else is on their plate, and agree on a starting Textbook. From there, the coach builds the first term’s plan and walks through it at a kickoff session. Your student starts getting matched to mentors and they're off!

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A plan, and the team to see it through

Most students treat their career like a paper due at the end of the semester. They intend to start, and by the time it feels urgent, the best time to approach it has passed.

Causeway gives your student a plan someone else is holding, and a person who holds them to it.

Session

When

What happens

The first thirty days