Get Clear on Your Path to Quant Finance
Designed for professionals with work experience who are pivoting into quantitative finance. I’ve supported 300+ students and career changers from fields like software engineering, aerospace, risk, and fundamental finance. You’ll get step-by-step, personalized support to clarify your goals, build a technical upskilling plan, rebrand your experience across resume and LinkedIn, practice interviews, and navigate every stage of the recruitment process — with a focus on fit, strategy, confidence building, and reviewing your results. Coaching focus areas include: - Career fit: Identify roles, firms, and work environments that align with your strengths and interests - Skill development: Build your portfolio and technical skills with a plan to help you develop projects and prepare for online assessments and technical interviews - Networking: Create tailored outreach scripts, a target list, and follow up strategy - Search strategy: Stay organized with timelines, application tracking, and ongoing feedback - Application materials: Optimize resume, LinkedIn, and cover letter to showcase your technical value - Interview prep: Practice HR, behavioral, and technical interviews (including market views & industry-specific questions) If you are in a MFE program (or other grad program), you may also use coaching sessions to support you in balancing recruitment & intense academic studies.
What's included
Life never goes according to plan. While we'll create a timeline and structure, and it's ideal to meet every other week, we can meet up to twice per week if needed to build your momentum and confidence. If we're meeting every other week, I'll text/message you in between sessions to check-in: helping you troubleshoot challenges or pivot strategies as new things come up. These check-ins are equivalent to 15mins of asynchronous coaching.
- Clarity on career path and professional & technical skills needed to succeed
- Networking strategy on who to talk to, what to say, customizable templates for outreach, and support in follow up
- Timeline and personalized curriculum to support both short-term and long-term goals for career change
- Guidance for upskilling and highlighting relevant projects
- Reviews and strategies to optimize resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn for targeted role
- Specific ways to use AI to support completing, tracking, and tailoring applications
- Interview prep and mock interviews
Meet your expert
Ash C.
Quant Recruiting & MFE Coach | Ex-Carnegie Mellon MSCF | 350+ Placements
Throughout the past 12 yrs, I've worked in higher ed and freelanced as a Career Coach - reviewing resumes & conducting mock interviews for college/grad students in finance, engineering, and marketing, to mid-level professionals changing careers in healthcare, hospitality, and creative arts, to ex-directors from Deloitte, BCG, JPM, and Amazon. I originally went to school to become a child/family therapist and spent 5yrs post-grad earning my hours toward licensure. But during grad school, I realized how much I enjoyed working in career services. My clients could see progress after just one resume review! I've been a career coach ever since, freelancing up until this year where I took my practice full-time and had 20 clients in my first month! My favorite role was at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where I worked for some of the toughest grad programs in the country - MSCF (MFE program heavy in stats, finance, data science, ML, and math) and 16 Master's Engineering programs. At MSCF, I met with employers globally, hosted workshops, and individually career coached 300+ students with 100% internship placement with 95% receiving full-time jobs by graduation. I loved working with my international students and neurodivergent students, while reviewing resumes for Executives on the side.
