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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.

Comprehensive Career Development Services

Internships

Providing holistic, in-depth advising to obtain internships during college and grad school.

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First Jobs

Working with students and recent grads to obtain their first professional full-time job.

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Career Changes

Guiding young professionals through career pivots and transitions.

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Career Advancement

Helping young professionals develop the roadmap and skills needed to 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
Why Career Coaching

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, biotech, high tech, 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, while coaching thousands of students and early career professionals.

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Co-founders of NextGen Advising with 50 years of combined experience in executive leadership and career coaching.
Rachel Blankstein & Caroline Sheu, Co-Founders

In the News

Our career coaching expertise for college students and early career professionals has been featured in the news:

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

Professionals working in key sectors such as high technology and non-profit organizations.

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.

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Functions

Professionals performing specialized functions such as finance, marketing, and engineering in various sectors.

We also help clients identify and pursue specialized functions across industries–such as finance, marketing, engineering, analytics and more.

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Client Testimonials

Rachel advised my son how to present himself in ways he had never thought of. She understood exactly what he needed to do at an extremely meticulous level to guide him to reach his goals of obtaining an internship at a top-tier investment bank. She was always available and made all of the difference. My wife and I could not recommend her more highly.

Parent of Student in Junior Summer Analyst Program at Bulge Bracket Investment Bank

As an economics major, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do upon graduation, but I knew I needed to get a really good internship for junior summer. Caroline helped me identify and evaluate multiple career paths based on my interests and skills and guided me through every step of the process. I learned how to network, how to present myself differently based upon the type of job I was interviewing for, and she helped me grow my confidence. There’s no way I would have gotten my junior year internship without her help! She’s amazing!

College Student with Summer Internship at Fortune 500 Company

Our son has learned skills from Rachel that we know will take him far in life. I felt that regardless of what happened with his outcome, working with you changed his life for the better.  He would never have felt comfortable or known how to effectively do so much outreach and networking without working with you. As a result, he was able to get an internship for his freshman summer of college and we believe his future career opportunities will be so much better because of you, and we look forward to continuing to work with you throughout his college experience.

Parent of Ivy League Student with Freshman Internship in Regional Consulting Firm

I had no idea how to guide my daughter on her career options, since she was interested in going into a field that I had no experience in and the recruiting process was very different and far more competitive than when I went to school. I also knew she would actually listen to an expert career coach vs. her own parents. I was also smart enough to have her start with Caroline the summer before her junior year. Caroline helped support and advise my daughter on how best to approach this highly stressful and highly competitive process. This investment in my daughter’s future was worth every penny.

Parent of Student-Athlete at Top Small Liberal Arts College

Rachel worked with me to help me get an internship in management consulting. Working with her closely helped me to learn all of the frameworks I needed to excel in the case study interviews. I also loved practicing with her for case study interviews and for the behavioral interviews, which she also helped me prepare for. Rachel was my go to person and I LOVED working with her!

Incoming Junior Year Intern at Boston Consulting Group, attending Top 25 University

As a transfer student, I was at a major disadvantage for the investment banking internship recruiting process, since I couldn’t get into the investment banking club at my school. Caroline helped me confidently network and prepare for the many rounds of interviewing involving behavioral, technical, and mini-case study questions. I was so happy to have someone I could trust and help me through every step of the process.

Transfer Student at Top 10 National University

I started with Rachel during my freshman year of college. I attend an Ivy League college and I was overwhelmed when everyone was already talking about their careers as soon as I got to campus. I was very stressed out and immediately felt better after starting to work with Rachel. She helped me to learn more about how my interests translated into jobs. She helped me direct my interests into the right types of internships and helped me with the internship interviewing process. I just got my first offer for an internship for the summer after my freshman year of college.

Student at Ivy League College

I am a junior at a large state university and needed help finding a job with a major that was no longer in demand. Caroline worked with me to reposition my background and gain new skills to make me more marketable for roles that I might be interested in. She also helped me build my network, which eventually led me to my ideal junior summer internship. Working with Caroline was invaluable.

Student at Large State University, with a Major in Education & Minor in Data Science

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