The honest answer: they can. Plenty of students recruit successfully without any outside support. This program doesn't claim to be the only path.

What it changes is the odds, and the cost of getting it wrong.

Here's the situation most students are actually in when they come to me: they're motivated, capable, and working hard – but they're guessing. They don't know which firms to target, whether their resume is actually competitive, how many people they should be networking with, or what a good case interview even looks like. They find out what they got wrong only after they've already missed the recruiting window for the year – and in consulting, there often isn't a second chance until the next full cycle, sometimes a year later.

The program doesn't do the work for your child. It removes the guessing – replacing trial and error with a system that's already been tested across dozens of students, so the time they do spend is spent on the right things the first time.

If they try it entirely on their own and it works out, that's a fine outcome too. What this protects against is the far more common outcome: months of effort, and nothing to show for it, discovered too late to fix. 

This isn't a "pay and you're in" program. Every student goes through a free mentorship interview first – a conversation where I assess their background, goals, and specific gaps before anyone is invited to join. Some students I recommend not join yet, and point them toward what to work on first instead.

If your child has been invited to enroll, it's because I've already assessed that this is a good use of both their time and your investment.

I've made that assessment based on: their commitment to consulting over other career paths, their grades, their extra-curriculars, their professional experiences, their communication skills, and my read on their coachability. 

If you're reading this page, I believe your child has what it takes to break in. 

Career centers offer general resume review and interview prep for all careers, which is genuinely useful. What they typically don't offer is a system built specifically for consulting recruiting – a referral-based networking process, consulting-specific case interview practice, or someone who has personally reviewed consulting applications on the hiring side. Many students in this program use both. 

Additionally, in consulting recruiting, it's all about how you compare to your peers. In the application pile. In your networking. In your interview performance. So while their schools will likely set them up well, if they're only using the resources provided there, it can be tough to stand out above other students who are using the same resources. 

This program helps give them the edge they need to tip the scales in their favour. 

Support isn't limited to 1:1 time with me alone. Students have access to a community of other students in the program, group coaching sessions, and recorded mock interviews from other students to learn from – so support doesn't bottleneck entirely on my personal calendar.

The baseline time commitment is roughly 5–7 hours a week, increasing during active interview periods. Most students find this manageable alongside coursework, though it's a real time investment and worth planning around, not something that happens passively in the background.

If your family's financial situation is a barrier, I'm happy to have an open conversation about it – book a call with me at the bottom of the page and we can talk through the options.

Absolutely you can. 100%. 

If you know someone at McKinsey, Deloitte, or BCG, that's huge. Have your child reach out. A warm intro from a parent's contact beats a cold LinkedIn message every time.

Here's the part that connection doesn't cover:

One contact gets one conversation. Maybe one referral, if it goes well. It doesn't teach your child how to build the other 15 to 20 relationships they'll need across different firms. It doesn't touch their resume, their case interview prep, or their behavioral answers. And it doesn't help if that one contact goes quiet, changes teams, or just doesn't have time to advocate for them, or give them the support they want or need.

There's also the question of what your child does with that connection once they have it. That contact is going to remember the conversation. If your child shows up unprepared, fumbles a case, or can't speak clearly about why they want consulting, that impression sticks. If they show up sharp, already thinking in frameworks, already sounding like someone who's done the work, your contact walks away impressed, maybe impressed enough to mention it back to you directly. A mock interview or two with your contact isn't just practice, it's a bit of an interview. They'll be evaluating whether your child is worth advocating for. This program will help them make sure they're ready to impress.

Most of the interviews students in this program get, come through referrals. But that's not from one connection. It's from a system: reaching out to the right people at each target firm, running the conversation well, and turning it into someone willing to put their name on the line, and then being ready enough in the room to make that referral worth it.

Your contact can open one door. This program teaches your child how to open all of them, and how to walk through the ones that matter.

If your contact is willing to help, that's amazing. Have your child use it alongside the program, not instead of it. Just make sure they're worth the introduction by the time they use it.