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EARLY

CAREER

LAUNCH

Career Consulting

Early Career Launch professionals help students and young adults be successful in their first several career moves — from internships to landing their “first job” and through early career changes.

About Us

Mary Bloomer founded Early Career Launch in 2010, drawing upon her experiences working in the Career Development office at the Yale School of Management and after a long career in investment banking. Since it's founding, we have successfully helped hundreds of clients find exciting internships and jobs. Our clients come to us with wide ranging experiences, academic backgrounds, and levels of understanding and focus on their career goals. We guide and prepare them to find opportunities suited to their talents, skills and interests.

Career Advisory Services

We begin our work together with a new client with a complimentary 30 minute phone conversation. During this conversation, we will talk about your past work and academic experiences, your skills and interests, and your career objectives going forward.

Many clients are at the beginning stages of exploring possible career paths and come to us to build an understanding of varied industries and roles, develop a comprehensive search process and market themselves most effectively. Others are very focused on a particular path and work with us to most effectively obtain an offer in industries and roles. Because of our varied clients, our work with each is highly tailored to best meet individual needs.

Services Include:

Professional skills and interests assessments
Career exploration, research, and targeting
Structuring an achievable step by step job/internship search plan
Impactful resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn and online presence, correspondence, and other marketing materials
Ongoing sourcing and identifying specific job/internship opportunities
Networking skills and tactics
Interview preparation, including extensive mock interviews
Offer assessment and negotiation
Onboarding tips

Landing a great job or internship requires effectiveness in each of the above. While time spent with each client in these areas varies depending on their needs, we dedicate our efforts to ensuring every client has the knowledge and skills to achieve success in their job search.

Advising Services and Packages

In each of the service packages below, clients benefit from direct in person time together as well as behind the scenes sourcing, researching, content creation and the development of continuously evolving and personalized career strategies. In certain circumstance, when appropriate, we work on hourly basis.

The Launch

This plan best suits current students, at an early stage of career exploration. It comprises a package of 20 Sessions (either in person, phone, or video conversation) thoroughly covering all of the critical services detailed above. Often students who have never done a comprehensive internship or job search before and have had little experience and exposure to structuring a career search process.

In Flight

This plan is tailored to meet the needs of current students or recent graduates who have begun to define their career interests and who have some experience in professionally marketing themselves, communicating their qualifications, and in targeting companies and opportunities. It is a package of 12 Sessions addressing services requiring development and attention. Most of the services detailed above are addressed under this package, however not as comprehensively as The Launch.

Cruising Altitude

This plan is designed for students and recent graduates who have well-developed career interests; have held professional positions; and/or have had experience targeting positions, interviewing, and selling themselves. It is a package of 8 Sessions focused on the client’s defined search goals, addressing services as needed above.

Career Paths

Advertising/Marketing/PR/Corporate Communications

Business Development

Commercial Banking

Consulting

Consumer Products/Brand Marketing

Data Analytics

E-Commerce/Merchandising/Retail

Education

Energy

Engineering

Entrepreneurship

Fashion

Finance

General Management/Development Programs

Government/Politics/Law

Healthcare

Hospitality

Human Resources

Investment Banking

Investment Management/Hedge Funds

Investment Research

Manufacturing

Media/Entertainment

Non-Profits/NGOs

Operations/Supply Chain

Private Equity

Real Estate

Research/Think Tanks

Sales

Sales and Trading

Strategic Planning/

Corporate Development

Sustainability/Environmental

Technology

Client Schools

American University

Amherst College

Bates College

Boston College

Boston University

Bowdoin College

Brown University

Bryant University

Bucknell University

Case Western University

Claremont McKenna College

Colby College

Colgate University

College of Charleston

Colorado College

Columbia University

Connecticut College

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Dickinson College

Duke University

Elon University

Fordham University

Furman University

Georgetown University

George Washington University

Gettysburg College

Hamilton College

Harvard University

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Indiana University

Manhattanville College

Middlebury College

New York University

Northwestern University

Ohio Wesleyan University

Penn State University

Princeton University

Providence College

Rhodes College

Santa Clara University

Southern Methodist University

Stanford University

St. Lawrence University

Texas Christian University

Trinity College

Tufts University

Tulane University

University of Alabama

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Chicago

University of Denver

University of Miami

University of Michigan

University of North Carolina

University of Notre Dame

University of Pennsylvania

University of Richmond

University of Southern California

University of Tennessee

University of Victoria

University of Virginia

University of Wisconsin

Wake Forest University

Washington and Lee University

Washington University

Williams College

Vanderbilt University

Villanova University

Yale University

Our clients have received offers from these and other organizations. Many organizations have made offers to multiple clients.

Employment Offers

Iqvia

ISeeCars

Jet.Com

JP Morgan

Kenrich Group

Kepler Group

Kiewit

KippsDeSanto

Kleinfelder

KPMG

L'Oreal

Lazard

L.E.K. Consulting

Macquarie

Magellan

Malk Partners

McKinsey

Meridian Capital

Mindshare

Moelis

Morgan Stanley

MSG

Mullen Lowe

NBC Sports

NERA Economics

Newmark Knight Frank

NISA Investments

Nielsen

Northwestern University Foundation

Novantas

NPV Advisors

Oak Hill

Oliver Wyman

OMD/Omnicom

Optimizley

Oracle

Parthenon

Pfizer

Cox Communications

Credit Suisse

Cushman and Wakefield

Deloitte

Deutsch Agency

Deutsche Bank

Dior

Drinker Biddle & Reath

East Harlem School

Eaton Vance

Estee Lauder

Evercore

Exelon

EY- Parthenon

Facebook

Factset

Fidelity Investments

Fifth Third Bank

Fitch Ratings

Fox Networks

FTI Consulting

Gartland & Mellina

Gartner Group

GLG

Goldman Sachs

Google

Greenhill & Co.

GroupM

Grove Street

GrubHub

Guggenheim Partners

Harbor Research

Hines

Horizon Media

Hunter Hotels

Insight Ventures

Interactive Brokers

Intermix

Ipsos

Accenture

Aerotek

AlphaSights

Alvarez and Marsal

American Family Insurance

Analysis Group

A.T. Kearney

Audax Group

Bain & Company

Bank of America

Barclays

BBDO

Bed Bath and Beyond

Bessemer Ventures

Blackrock

Blackstone

Bloomingdales

Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Blueprint Consulting Group

BMO Capital Markets

BoomLab

Boost Media

Booz Allen Hamilton

Boston Consulting Group

Brevet Capital

Brookfield Properties

Cambridge Associates

Capital One

Cardinal Health

Catalant

Centerview Partners

Charles River

Citibank

Clearview Health

Comcast NBC Universal

Competitive Power Ventures

Converse

Cornerstone Research

Coursedog

PitchBook

PJ Solomon

PJT

Proctor & Gamble

Putnam Investments

PwC

Qatalyst Partners

Remi

Russell Reynolds

Saks Fifth Avenue

Salesforce

Santander Bank

Semler Brossy

SIA Partners

Simon-Kucher

Spencer Stuart

Square

Standard Chartered

Stanford University

Starwood

Stifel

Strategy&

Success Academy

Terra Group

Third Bridge

Tiffany

Tory Burch

UBS

Under Armour

Unilever

Vayner Media

W.P. Carey

Wasserstein Perella

Wayfair

Wells Fargo

WeWork

Wine Enthusiast

ZS Associates

Team

Mary Bloomer,

Founder

Prior to starting Early Career Launch, Mary was a Senior Director in the Career Development Office at Yale School of Management, assisting students with career interests across a wide range of sectors, with a focus in all aspects of financial services, general management and leadership development roles, manufacturing, and the government sector.

Mary spent over 15 years working on Wall Street as an investment banker. She spent the majority of her career at Lehman Brothers in the Private Placement Group and later as a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Private Placement Group at Nesbitt Burns Securities, Inc., one of the largest Canadian investment banks. She later worked as a Managing Director with the Ivy Group.

Mary holds an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Business and a BA with honors in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Debbie Murray,

Career Consultant

Prior to joining Early Career Launch, Debbie held numerous volunteer positions including President of several national and local volunteer organizations, Head of the college center at her local high school and successfully ran several fundraisers.

In her early career Debbie worked as a banker and business development officer with Citibank’s Private Bank. She also spent 12 years working for Sotheby’s in their Impressionist and Modern Department as well as the Press Office and Investor Relations.

Debbie holds a BA in Art History and Economics and Business from Lafayette College.