THE
HIRED SIDE
Launching Great Careers
It's a tough market.
Even tougher for students and recent grads.
More competition. Fewer entry-level roles. A bar that keeps rising, and AI accelerating the trend. 52% of graduates are underemployed a full year after leaving school. Not because they aren't talented. Because they were trained for a different game.
Students spend years in a system built to win admissions. Test prep. Essays. A checklist for everything. Then they arrive on campus and the game changes. Now it's about selling yourself. Finding opportunities no one points you towards. Building relationships before you need them. No rules. No checklist.
Employers call it being "desk ready." What they mean is initiative, discipline, and grit. Juggling priorities, reading the room, navigating ambiguity. Few students are taught these skills. Fewer employers will teach them on the job.
The degree alone no longer closes the deal. Employers are looking beyond where you went to school and asking what you built while you were there.
Your school has more to offer than you know.
Colleges invest heavily in career centers, faculty research, tutoring, clubs, study abroad, and alumni networks. But those resources are often fragmented, siloed across departments, and easy to miss. Most students never find them, and the ones who do often find them too late.
The students who get the most out of college don't always have the most resources. They know where to look, and they start early.
We show you how to maximize the opportunities you've already paid for, and you how to turn them into a story an employer can't ignore.
Already graduated? Many schools keep career services and alumni networks open to graduates, and most alumni never ask.
This gap is what we built The Hired Side to close.
We know college. We know hiring. We build your bridge to The Hired Side.
We are three Harvard MBAs who have worked from every seat that matters.
Stef knows the inside of colleges and the programs, offices, and people most students never find. Sara knows how to research a market, find an edge, and position you to win. Eva knows how to sell and close. All three of us have sat across the table from candidates and made the hiring decision.
College can be a $400K investment. We help you get the most out of every semester and turn it into the internships and job offers that will launch a successful career.
This is more than career coaching.
It is maximizing your college experience and learning how to sell yourself.
The skills that close a billion-dollar deal also close a job offer.
Differentiation. Storytelling. Objection handling. Follow-through.
Your interview is not a test of your past.
It's your chance to prove you are the solution to their problem.
Your application isn't a history of what you have done.
It is a showcase of what you have done and what you will deliver.
We build that case with you.
We stay with you until the offer is signed. Your career is launched.
