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  Impact Stories

  Alexandra Hanley on Stepping Into Her Role in a Competitive Industry

  As a Business Management major with a Finance specialization — and a 3.98 GPA — Alexandra Hanley is no stranger to hard work. At Stony Brook University, she’s a teaching assistant for Business Communications, a Forté Campus Ambassador, and a leader in Women in Business. She’s built a strong academic and leadership foundation, but like […]

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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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  Forté Signals

  The Myth Of The Career Ladder

  A colleague of mine said something the other day that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. We were talking about career ladders, the metaphor, the model, the whole idea, and she paused and said: Why did we all assume the ladder went up? I mean, what are ladders for, other than to get […]

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  ERGs in Action

  What the Employee Handbook Doesn’t Say

  Companies will tell you that career advancement is driven by performance.  To some extent, that’s true. But ask employees how advancement actually works in any given company and the answers get murky fast. You need visibility. You need an advocate. You need to speak up more. You should stay long enough to build relationships. You […]

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  Articles

  The Virtual Career Fair That Felt Surprisingly Human

  Most people do not hear the words virtual career fair and think ‘warm’ or ‘personal’, or ‘human.’ They think awkward networking, a sea of resumes, carefully rehearsed elevator pitches, and recruiters bouncing between conversations while candidates try to stand out in tiny squares on a screen. And why not?  Career fairs often feel transactional even […]

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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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