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  Match Made in Mission

  From a Table in the Back to a Career in Consulting

  How One Student’s Decision to Show Up Led to an Unexpected Career Path  When Caroline Chou walked into the Forté Emerging Leaders Conference, most of the tables were already full. So she took a seat in the back. The prospect of attending a conference initially felt intimidating. “I was feeling rather lost in my business […]

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  Match Made in Mission

  Foundations Matter: How One Student Found Her Home in Real Estate Finance

  Featuring Hines and Deja Alfaro, NYU Stern Before Deja Alfaro found herself working in fund management in London, she was a first-generation college student at NYU trying to figure out where she fit in finance. Like many business students going to school in New York, the path seemed to point in one direction. “Everyone just […]

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  Career Advancement

  “I was basically a chair”: 5 tips for telling your career story

  Yesterday, my daughter texted a picture from work. Two tiny preschoolers, both perched squarely in her lap, grinning at the camera. It was adorable. She’s spending her gap year at a preschool, before she starts graduate school in the fall. I’ve gotten a lot of texts like this.   But it was her caption that made […]

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  Impact Stories

  How One Conference Helped Anuva Wardah See a Future for Herself in Finance

  When Anuva Wardah arrived at the College Fast Track to Finance Conference, she wasn’t sure how her background in Political Science and Sociology would translate into a finance career. As someone deeply involved in civic engagement, global affairs, and social impact work, she had always been curious about the industry — but also unsure whether […]

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  Latest Research

  The AI Gender Gap Isn’t What You Think

  If you’ve been paying attention, a familiar story is already starting to settle in. You’ve probably seen the headline: as generative AI reshapes how work gets done, women are falling behind. Adoption is lower. Engagement is lower. And if that gap holds, it compounds.  The data behind that claim is real. A recent global analysis* […]

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  College Success

  How She Went from Prepared to Memorable

  Forum Patel, a junior majoring in Computer Science & Business at Lehigh University, thought she was interested in consulting, especially tech consulting. Like a lot of students, she knew the buzzwords: travel, big clients, problem-solving, long hours. What she didn’t know was what consultants actually do. Enter Forté’s Career Ready Certificate. Through the Career Ready […]

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