How we can help you.
The things people actually bring us, and what someone who sat the same process a year ago can tell you about each one.
If you are at university
- 01
Spring weeks and internships
Which ones to go for, when they open, and what each process is really like once you are in it. Most close on a rolling basis rather than on the advertised deadline, which nobody tells you and which is the single most expensive thing not to know.
- 02
Applications that get past the first screen
CVs and application forms, read properly and marked up, by people who were filling in the same forms last year and can tell you which parts nobody reads.
- 03
Online tests and video interviews
What the formats are, how to practise for them, and the technical basics for quant and tech roles.
- 04
Mock interviews
With a mentor who sat one in the last year. We will be honest afterwards, which is the only part that is worth anything.
- 05
What to do when you get rejected
Rejections land in waves from late October and most people quietly give up around the fourth one. That is the point at which the people who get a spring week do something different.
If you are in sixth form
- 06
Working out where to apply
Five choices, and an honest conversation about whether they are realistic. We will tell you if we think one of them is not, and we will tell you if we think you are aiming too low, which happens more often.
- 07
The UCAS application
Three questions now, not one essay. We go through it draft by draft until it sounds like you. We will not write it. Universities check, and a statement that is not yours falls apart at interview anyway.
- 08
Planning the year
What to do beyond the syllabus, when to do it, which competitions are worth entering, and how to write about any of it later without it sounding like a list.
- 09
Getting the grades
Revision that works rather than revision that feels productive, past papers, and what to do in the fortnight after a mock has gone badly.
- 10
Interviews
What actually happens in the room, and practice with a mentor who sat them recently enough to remember what it felt like.
- 11
Results day and after
Offers, Clearing, retaking, applying again. Our mentors have been through the worst version of that morning, so it is not theoretical advice.
Start whenever
An hour to get on with it, fifteen free minutes if you would rather talk first, or a message if you would rather write.