elite career literacy frameworks
The Elite Career Literacy Frameworks programme equips careers teams and senior faculty with a clear, practice-led understanding of the world’s most competitive professional pathways, including corporate law, investment banking & finance, management consulting, technology (product, operations & strategy), medicine, engineering, STEM, and applied AI.
The programme is developed and informed by structured input from senior practitioners across these fields and synthesised into a coherent set of frameworks that explain how elite careers are actually organised, recruited into, and progressed through in practice.
Rather than offering generic careers advice, the programme provides faculty with accurate mental models, shared language, and realistic reference points that enable consistent, confident guidance for students navigating high-stakes academic and professional decisions.
format and fees
Scope:
Career structure frameworks: How early careers are structured across elite professions, including recruitment pipelines, training models, progression pathways, and the criteria institutions and firms use to assess candidates at each stage.
Institutional differentiation: The practical distinctions between leading employers within each field (e.g. Magic Circle vs US law firms, bulge bracket vs elite boutique banks, MBB vs Tier-2 consulting, FAANG vs scale-ups), and why these differences materially affect student fit and outcomes.
Professional realities: What early-career roles actually involve day to day, how performance is evaluated in practice, and where academic achievement diverges from professional effectiveness.
Framework-led delivery: Structured briefings supported by curated practitioner insight, real-world scenarios, and guided discussion — designed to translate complex professional systems into usable advisory frameworks.
Outcome focus: Developing accurate career literacy and institutional consistency, enabling faculty to advise students with realism, clarity, and confidence across departments and year groups.
Delivery: In person or live online, delivered to careers and sixth form faculty.
Structure: Typically delivered as one full day (8 hours), or two half-day sessions (4 hours each).
Cohort size: Unlimited
Availability: Briefings available from 2 February 2026 onwards.
Pricing: £3,500 per programme.