Internships
Providing holistic, in-depth advising to obtain internships during college.
The Premier Career Advisors for College Students and Early Career Professionals
NextGen Advising provides comprehensive coaching and white-glove service to help college students and young professionals navigate the future of work and pursue their dream career. We are uniquely focused on helping them explore career options, obtain internships and first jobs, and advance their careers.
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Why Choose NextGen Advising?
We help students and young professionals gain clarity, confidence, and skills—earlier in their journey—so they can successfully navigate their career options and develop a comprehensive plan to achieve their goals.
Career Advice
- Personalized career exploration based on your personality, interests, values, and skills
- Set achievable career goals and detailed plans, anticipating AI disruption in the job market
Career Confidence Coaching
- Emotional support for job search and work challenges
- Personalized cheerleading to build lasting confidence
- Targeted resolution of underlying emotional barriers
Lifelong, Professional Skills
- Learn storytelling and how to market yourself
- Develop interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
- Strengthen communication and presentation skills
- Improve relationship building and networking
- Gain subject matter expertise
- Assess and ameliorate both strengths and weaknesses
- Set clear, achievable goals and effectively manage time
Meet the Co-Founders
Work directly with our co-founders who have 50 years of combined experience in coaching, hiring, management, and executive leadership. They have successfully guided students and young professionals on possible career paths and helped them obtain internships and jobs in investment banking, management consulting, biotechnology, high-technology, nonprofit and many other industries.
With MBAs from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, they have held senior management and board director roles at public, private, and non-profit companies such as Google and Disney, as well as founded, scaled and sold a coaching business to private equity, while coaching thousands of students and early career professionals.
Rachel Blankstein & Caroline Sheu, Co-Founders
Client Advisory Board
To stay on the cutting edge of current hiring practices and the rapidly evolving job market, NextGen maintains a Client Advisory Board that includes members from the following organizations:
Industries
We support clients pursuing internships and jobs in a wide range of industries–such as investment banking, management consulting, entertainment, high tech, nonprofit and more.
Functions
We also help clients identify and pursue specialized functions–such as finance, marketing, engineering, creative arts and more – that run across industries.
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Ready to Get Your Dream Job or Internship?
We provide the support, skills and confidence needed to reach your goals.