Most new grads lose the job search to preventable things — a resume that never clears an ATS, a LinkedIn profile recruiters never find, an interview answer that rambles instead of lands. Career Launchpad fixes all four, backed by a network of alumni now working inside Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
Applying to job postings and waiting is the slowest, lowest-odds path into a first role. The grads who move fastest treat the search as a system with four working parts — not a single resume upload.
The bullet formula recruiters actually respond to, ATS-safe formatting, and a LinkedIn profile built to show up in recruiter search — with before/after examples.
Real behavioral, technical, and scenario-based interview questions organized by category, with the STAR framework and how top companies actually structure their loops.
How the U&B alumni network at Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft works, plus outreach scripts and informational-interview questions that actually get replies.
How to actually compare base, bonus, and equity across offers, real negotiation scripts, and the mistakes that quietly cost new grads thousands.
Career Launchpad runs in roughly this order — though networking and interview prep often overlap once outreach starts landing replies.
The alumni network leans tech-heavy — Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft — but the resume, interview, networking, and negotiation frameworks apply to any new-grad job search, including business, finance, and non-technical roles.
Most new-grad resumes we review have the same handful of fixable issues — weak bullets, ATS-unfriendly formatting, no quantified impact. A resume review is usually the fastest first step, even for a strong draft.
Career Launchpad connects students with U&B alumni currently working at target companies for informational interviews and, where there's a genuine fit, internal referrals — details are covered on the Networking page.
Yes — the Interview Preparation page includes technical and case-based question categories alongside behavioral ones, and 1:1 mock interviews can focus specifically on a technical loop.