The Program

A plan, and the team to see it through

Many 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 hiring decisions, 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 track's Textbook says how the field hires and what to be able to do by when. Your student's tasks between sessions are built backward from that list. Every two weeks the coach reviews the work, sets the next tasks and marks where your student stands: Not Yet, Developing, Ready, Standout. After every call you get a recap, and your own page shows the plan and where your student stands.

In sessions the coach pushes your student like an interviewer and then debriefs like a coach.

Coaches meet with your student twice a month during the school year, once a month in summer. The sessions are designed to teach, support, and hold accountable.

The coach works out the hours a week at the kickoff and your student agrees to the number. It rises in recruiting season.

Curriculum

Career guides, templates, and reference materials supporting your individualized coaching.

One Textbook, personalized

Built for the field your student is aiming at. Each track's Textbook says how the field hires and what to be able to do by when. Every task your student gets names the lesson it comes from. Finance looks nothing like entertainment, and neither looks like generic career advice.

Where it comes from. They're built 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. In First Year they center on what work is really like, because many students are choosing between fields they've never seen up close. In Second Year they're largely about how to break in. By Third 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 exists in the background and is available for the career shifts that come 5, 10, or 25 years later.

Read about the Mentor Network

One track, one call to the next

Two weeks, in detail

To comeThe sample two weeks, one student's tasks from one call to the next, is being made.

Task	Due	Why it matters

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 always the student's.

Getting started

The first thirty days

In the first week the welcome email arrives with your student's sign-in, and they book the kickoff call with their coach. John is on the first call with every family. On that call your student answers the kickoff questions themselves: what they are drawn to, what they have already done, how much time they have. The next morning the first two weeks of tasks are drafted. By the end of the month your student has a coach who knows them and tasks with dates.

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A plan, and the team to see it through

Many 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.

Task

Due

Why it matters

The first thirty days