Testimonials
My Next Great Step advisor was a tremendous wealth of knowledge and a very effective career counselor. We worked together on how to market myself to businesses by exploiting my education, core skills and past work experiences. Prior to working with NGS, my past interviews had produced no positive outcomes. Through a clearly defined step by step program, NGS helped guide me in learning and applying the necessary tools to produce successful outcomes.
I have had the pleasure of working with Next Great Step for about 9 months, when my advisor assisted me while finding a new job post-grad, as well as transitioning to another job. My advisor did not only help answer my emails with questions and edits at 11pm, but asked thought provoking questions that brought out my strengths and core skills for interviews. I would recommend Next Great Step to any college student, graduate or young professional looking to improve their professional facet. I look forward to continuing my work with NGS.
I had the great experience of working with my NGS coach for 8 sessions. I felt that her approach was very helpful, informative and efficient. She helped me gain a lot of clarity and confidence by helping me identify and hone in on what my core skills are. I gained a better understanding of how to present myself consistently and more accurately to potential employers and networking connections. I now feel much more confident and prepared going into any professional conversation. I would definitely recommend her services to any students or recent graduates looking for guidance when it comes to approaching their careers.
The opportunity to work with Next Great Step was a truly enriching and beneficial experience. I feel more confident interacting with professional peers, and more prepared for any situation which might advance my career track.
I had a positive experience working with Next Great Step. My career coach always had a flexible schedule, making it easy to schedule our sessions. With her help, I was able to identify and strengthen my core skills. NGS was able to assist me in effectively networking internally during my internship. In addition, NGS helped me formulate clear explanations of my accomplishments to my intern manager, allowing me to become more visible throughout a large bank. I truly believe that NGS’s advice was one of the reasons I received a full-time offer.
The Next Great Step team was amazing! I worked with them the summer before my Junior year. The biggest takeaway for me was solidifying my core skills. Having these established skills is very valuable in an interview because you already know your examples and experiences that you can connect to the job. Also the Next Great Step team laid out the material so it was easy to follow and implement on your own. Their notes on networking have been extremely helpful to me in my search for internships.
Next Great Step was the missing link to helping my son get a job out of college. He was motivated and interviewing for jobs, but just needed help tying it all together. His advisor understood how to communicate with him. She helped him understand his skills and how to demonstrate that in a conversation. As a result, my son became more articulate, concise and confident when interviewing and pursuing opportunities. Most importantly he landed a great job with an accounting firm even before he completed the NGS program. If you think your son or daughter needs an edge when interviewing for a first job or internship, I would highly recommend Next Great Step.
I had the pleasure of working with Next Great Step for four months during my search for a job. While working with my career coach, I was able to fully understand what my greatest strengths and skills were as well as how to convey them to employers. She was very helpful throughout my interview process and while building my network. My advisor is very professional, very flexible with her time and is always available with advice and tips. As finding jobs becomes increasingly difficult, I am very grateful to have NGS alongside.
Next Great Step worked with our daughter who felt lost after graduating from a very prestigious private Boston area university. Finding that her school’s career counseling department didn’t live up to the hype they promised when visiting as a prospective student, but instead found their version of job-search help amounted to directing her to websites. NGS’s help was targeted and professionally done, with insight into what the other side is looking for in a candidate. Her advisor continues to follow up with our daughter even after she’s been working for awhile to make sure she continues to pursue her job goals. We could not speak highly enough about the professional advice, guidance and reassurance NGS has provided for our daughter.
Next Great Step really helped me with my future job interviews. You truly learn a lot when signing up for the program and the information you learn is very beneficial. Next Great Step does an excellent job melding all the attributes that are involved in applying for jobs that recent graduates desire. My career coach has great communication skills. NGS is very understanding and truly helps students prepare for their futures.
I had the opportunity to work with Next Great Step when I needed guidance in my career aspirations. My advisor is very professional in every aspect of her work, which is one of the first things that drew me to her. She works hard to help her clients and to find their skills as a person. She also helped me with my interviewing skills, which were very beneficial for when I went on interviews. She will push you to work hard on assignments because it will only help you in the end. Everything she does has a purpose. Trust in her process and you will be better prepared for interviews and future career goals. It was a true pleasure to work with Next Great Step.
We are so pleased with how Next Great Step helped our son to land a job. The work he did with your firm helped him understand his strengths and allowed him to get focused on a specific functional area that fit his personality and career objectives. I am happy to let you know that he recently accepted a job as a sales representative for a logistics firm. Your services were a very worthy investment and we appreciate the impactful result that you were able to help him achieve. I will be sure to recommend your firm to friends and colleagues that have college kids/grads.
Next Great Step helped my son understand what he wanted from a position and what he had to offer. His advisor helped to articulate his strengths and assets in a convincing, confident and clear manner. She taught him how to prepare for each interview, ask appropriate questions for each company and how to direct and control the conversation. Within a matter of weeks of working with NGS, before even finishing, he was able to secure a great job and successfully interview for others. Next Great Step’s approach with young job seekers is to help them learn how to present and differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack. I would highly recommend using Next Great Step to help your son or daughter secure their first meaningful job.
Thanks so much for your efforts and successes. Next Great Step was a huge help with getting our son ready for securing an Internship for the summer. He landed one with Amazon.
NGS helped me to not only figure out what I can offer professionally but to also gain confidence in that. As someone who had some trouble knowing exactly what I wanted and had a lot of directions I could go, my NGS advisors helped me to distill my skills into the core ones, taught me how to talk about my professional achievements and goals, and how important connection is when it comes to professional advancement, whether it be getting your first job or building a valuable professional network. I am now (very happily) employed with high and growing confidence in my professional skills and abilities. This program was so beneficial to me and to my future, and I would absolutely recommend it to anyone looking to jumpstart their career after college. Thank you so much!
I can’t thank Next Great Step enough for helping me practice my interviewing skills. As a Junior, it was crucial for me to get an internship for the summer and with the skills my advisor taught me, I was able to accomplish this. She was able to work with me over video conference while I was abroad, and was still capable of giving me the tips I needed to obtain an internship- even with being 3,000 miles away. I would 100% recommend NGS’s services to anyone struggling with the job process.
I am forever grateful for my Next Great Step advisor’s insight and consideration. She carefully took me through the steps of how to approach my career path. She helped me acknowledge my most useful skills and helped me hone them. She also aided me in articulating my attributes and how to prove to others that I am a strong asset. She galvanized me into being confident in my positive traits just by making me realize my potential. She is easy to talk to and helps lay out your plans in an organized way that makes the job search easy to navigate. I would absolutely recommend NGS as someone to aid you in the job process.
The Next Great Step team have been amazing to work with! Through our 6 sessions, they were able to give me the confidence and tools necessary to excel in any interview or meeting. By helping me focus in on my core skills and identifying how I can help an organization, gave me the confidence that was needed in myself. I can’t recommend them enough!.
Working with Next Great Step was an extremely enjoyable and helpful experience. My advisor helped me better identify my core skills, which improved the way I presented both myself and my past experiences better during interviews. I landed my first job out of college after just two meetings, and can’t thank NGS enough for their help.
After working with Next Great Step, I was able to clarify my personal goals that led me to successfully get hired for my first job out of college. I gained a concrete understanding on how to approach the process. NGS taught me how to go beyond asking simple interview questions and truly think about what I need to know about a company. I would highly recommend NGS as they truly educate you on how to enhance your career search skills.
I worked with Next Great Step for eight sessions over several months to help me with my job search. My advisor was great at helping me understand and learn some of the techniques that will make me stand out as a candidate. She was also able to add a solid structure to my job search, making me think about what my most marketable skills were to an employer as well as just simply thinking about who I wanted to reach out to. Everything seemed very personalized and allowed me to think about things that I had not thought about previously related to a job search. I would definitely recommend NGS to someone in college, or recently graduated, who is looking for an internship or a full-time position.
I had the opportunity to work with Next Great Step during my job search after graduating from college. My career coach helped me develop a precise plan to find a job. She was very professional and worked very hard to help me identify my core strengths. She refined my interviewing skills and helped me highlight my abilities to employers. She provided a very personalized experience and truly cared about my career. I would recommend NGS to any college graduate who is looking to have a clear strategy on how to achieve a job in a field they love.
Next Great Step is probably the best investment you could make in your future after attending college. As a recent college graduate who had majored in mathematics, I didn’t know how the skills I had used in college actually applied to a “real world job” and as a result had very little confidence in my abilities. This was absolutely coming through in interviews and negatively affected my job hunt. I began working with Next Great Step and within three sessions saw amazing results. We attacked the problem of how to understand and communicate my value together in a systematic way and the results were better than I imagined. In my first onsite interview since working with NGS, I described myself and my value so accurately that the company I was being recruited for gave me an offer for a position ABOVE the one I was interviewing for! I highly recommend Next Great Step!
I worked with my Next Great Step career coach last month to help me understand the job search more thoroughly. She added structure to the networking process. I enjoyed working with my coach as she is enthusiastic, very professional, and experienced in the HR field. I recommend anyone, even those familiar with networking and job searching, to consult with NGS to open new doors for themselves, and to explore new avenues to drive their career.
We were amazed at the difference Next Great Step made in our son’s ability to understand his strengths and the value that he brings to an organization. In short order, he was able to clearly articulate how the skills he has developed made him a good fit for the jobs he was targeting. We can’t recommend Next Great Step highly enough – and have already engaged them to help our daughter get a summer internship.
Working with my Next Great Step advisor was a great experience, and ultimately, she was key in me landing my first job out of college. She helped me identify my core strengths and understand how my strengths could add tangible value to a company. After working with NGS, I feel far more confident and prepared to communicate with professionals, ranging from C-level executives to entry-level employees. Overall, my experience with NGS was very rewarding because she was able to provide the individual attention that a Career Services group at a large undergraduate university cannot provide. I highly recommend working with NGS.
I had a wonderful experience working with Next Great Step and I would recommend them to recent graduates looking to sharpen their job search skills and increase their chances of landing the right job. My advisor helped me identify a career path that I feel passionate about as well as illuminating how the skills that I acquired working abroad could be applied to this career. By my last session I felt confident promoting my brand and core strengths and I received three job offers!
Wanted to give a big shout out to Next Great Step! They helped my college junior learn lifelong interviewing skills, helped him with his resume and LinkedIn profile and coached him on business etiquette and acumen which helped him land a terrific summer internship in his field. His advisor was great to work with as she really relates to the kids. She is a great coach and mentor. Would highly recommend!
I had a great experience working with Next Great Step. My advisor helped me analyze my skills and values to find a balance for future career choices. She taught me how to navigate the maze that is corporate culture. Starting from the interview process, she always made herself available for coaching and advice. She is a very good listener and gives great feedback based on what she learns from you. All in all, I have had a very successful experience working with Next Great Step.
Next Great Step has helped me figure out what my strengths are that I can bring to a company and how to use those to my advantage in any future job I may hold. NGS has also given me pointers on how to network around the office in a more efficient and effective way. NGS has also helped me think about my future goals and where I would like to be in 5 years allowing me to plan out my career path accordingly instead of just going at it blindly.
I really enjoyed working with Next Great Step. She helped me identify my core skills, and taught me how to market those skills to an employer. My advisor coached me for interviews and gave me great tips on how to network. She gave me the confidence I needed to identify the type of job I really want and pursue it. I feel comfortable talking to her and she has gone above and beyond to support me and answer any questions I have. I highly recommend working with NGS because they work with their clients one-on-one and really gets to know them and understand them. I really appreciate all their help.
Next Great Step really helped me move forward with my career. Through our sessions, my NGS advisor helped me to zero in on what I have to offer prospective employers, as well as identify who those employers might be. I worked with her on networking and resume building to help me land an interview I want. I would highly recommend NGS to any college graduate or someone looking for a change in career.
NGS demonstrated how to network with alumni and helped me figure out how I wanted to start my career. In addition to this, they instilled confidence in me and showed me how to compose myself when interviewing with employers.
Next Great Step really helped me land the perfect internship. My career coach helped me perfect my resume and really allowed me to build the confidence I needed to be able to network.
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