This presentation will reveal experience-informed findings on how to support first-generation students pursuing careers with demanding timelines. After five years of teaching a seminar to students pursuing careers in business, the presenter has learned of a distinct set of challenges that first-generation students face. Competitive careers in finance, investment banking, and consulting require an early start that proves challenging without informational support from students’ families and pre-existing networks. Students need to demonstrate a record of achievement that is expected to have started before first-gen students even become aware that they should be developing it to secure entry-level positions in competitive fields. This webinar will share ideas on how this inconsistency can be remedied.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Understand the unique challenges that first-gen students face when pursuing careers with demanding application timelines;
- Understand how to advise and support first-gen students in pursuing challenging careers, such as those in consulting and finance; and
- design support structures that can assist first-gen students by compensating for the lack of familial informational and network support.