“With every coaching session I do, every workshop I teach, I try to bring something new. Not just teach the big idea that thrills but also frameworks and key actionable takeaways so that participants, especially students, can learn “how to fish for themselves” in their career journey.”
Hira Fernando, Coach and CEO, Careerly
Our Approach
There are thousands of individual career advisors, online coaching platforms, and mentor matching programs. Do your research. We recommend you look at industry experience, service delivery method, and to what extent you, the job candidate, are the focus (versus the employer, recruiter, or other parties).
90-minute coaching apppointments
Unique Careerly: our appointments are already 50% longer than the one-hour average, We are serious and genuinely committed, setting us apart from 90% of career advisors.
Original Careerly frameworks / IP
We coach based on our experience which we've distilled into Careerly frameworks, templates, and guides. When we recommend other resources we carefully review and vet them.
Global mindset, global platform.
In keeping with the demands of the current global workforce (remote work, dispersed teams, online platforms,), Careerly adjusts and also stays ahead on hiring trends.
We are not saying we're the best approach for everyone. But what we do, we do very well, we are remarkably consistent, and our results speak for themselves.
"Finally some folks ahead of the curve. Forget the cover letters and mind-numbing resume tailoring. Hira and Trenton have mad skills leveraging GenAI for all that and more! Imagine a career coach who happens to also be insanely good at prompt engineering, also tailored for your job search.
... seriously, imagine that"
H. Schneider, Financial Data Analyst, UBS, Zurich, Switzerland - 5 June 2024
and yes I got the job
Internal Team
Hiranya Fernando
Founder & CEO
Melissa Knee
Head of Operations
Michael Salsbury
Head of Advisory
Jenny Gaboff
Marketing & Social Media
Robin Osbourne
VP of Technology
Jon Lohr
Communications & Outreach
About Us
There are many career service models out there. This is ours: 3 key aspects separate us from 95% of other services. We encourage you to research carefully and choose a process that suits you.
Career Cluster Coverage
We offer a wide range of career strategy + job search services, from upstream career strategy and competenc analysis to downstram job search activities like interview prep.
Client-Centric Flexibility
Your needs and life circumstances are our kick-off point. Choose from a variety of products at differnt price pace, personalization, to suit all client needs!
Educators not Consultants
Careerly originated from a teaching and educational (campus) setting. Our teachers resemble parents more than consultants; we embody this supportive yet challenging approach.
Career Cluster Coverage
Unparalleled diversity in background and industry, breadth of industry coverage, and depth of career expertise. And as dedicated to your success as we were when we were going through the same process for ourselves.
Finance
Included here: investment banking, sales& trading, asset management, corporate banking, and corporate finance.
Operations/ Supply Chain
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Consulting
Included here is strategy consulting, MBB, Big Four, internal consulting, non-profit consulting, and tech consulting
Marketing / Brand
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Tech / Product
Included here: product marketing, product management, IT roles, cybersecurity, Fintech, Edtech, and tech startups
Data Science / Analytics
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Int'l Dev
Included here: World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; USAAID, development contractors, NGOs, fieldwork
Legal & Public Policy
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Hira
Fernando
Hiranya (Hira) Fernando has 15+years in industry before she decided to put all that experience to good use and founded Careerly. Hira leads the finance vertical and covers all banking and financial services, sell side, buy side, as well as the corporate finance function. She also covers public finance and project finance and thus overlaps with our idev vertical - international development, clean energy, sustainability, CSR and green business. Hira's employers have included Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, the World Bank, the World Resources Institute, AMR Research, and Gartner. As a Career Specialist, she has served at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and the School of Foreign Service, UVA's Darden School, Johns Hopkins University and Catholic Univesity among others.
MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
B..Sc. and L.LM, London School of Economics & Political Science
Naveen
Ravishankar
Naveen is a Senior Product Manager at Amazon working on cutting edge fintech solutions for the Amazon Wallet product line. Previously Naveen was at Citi, as a Vice President in product management for payments. Naveen joined Citi’s leadership development rotation program after graduating with his MBA from Georgetown. He worked on internal consulting and product management teams as part of his rotations. He has considerable in the trenches experience with the recruiting process as an international student, successfully facing climbing over the obstacles he faced at each stage - internship/CPT, OPT, and eventually full H1-B sponsorship. Earlier in his career, Naveen was a consultant at Oracle implementing financial products for major banking clients in the Asia Pacific region.
MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Will
Benway
Will Benway is a Senior Associate at Duff & Phelps in the Valuation Services group. Will joined Duff & Phelps as an Analyst in May 2016 and was promoted after 9 months.. At Duff & Phelps, Will supports clients with valuation needs, and mergers & acquisitions advice. He interacts routinely with CFOs, Controllers, senior finance and accounting professionals, as well as the corporate development and strategy teams. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Will worked for 5 years as a management consultant in the construction and engineering sector.
MSF, Georgetown McDonough School of Business; B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Northeastern University.
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MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Meena
Chockalingam
Meena's experience includes 3 years at Silicon Valley startups and 6+ years in Big 4 Consulting. She worked as a Senior Associate in PwC's Risk, Fraud and Compliance Practice, before joining fintech startup AppZen in Silicon Valley. As Associate Director she advises on overall strategy, as well as leading client account management and marketing. She's the first industry hire at AppZen, a growing artificial intelligence startup that's pre-Series A. Previously, at PWC, Meena traveled around the world fighting corporate fraud and making companies more compliant (ask her for some stories!). She has also successfully led cross-functional teams of up to 60 staff and managed teams effectively on a global scale.
MBA, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Olivier
Rochedreaux
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MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Anjana
Agarwal
Anjana has 18+ years of experience in leading marketing and business analytics teams in retail, CPG and consulting. In her current role as Director, Customer Insights and Analytics, she heads the analytics team at a Seattle based late-stage startup, that uses big data and predictive technologies to support top retailers like Walmart. She has previously worked at Amazon, Albertsons, Home Depot, GE Commercial Finance, and FICO in various roles related to marketing analytics and business strategy. Her specialties include Student analytics, consumer insights, digital marketing, ecommerce, loyalty marketing, business intelligence, and product management.
MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvannia
M.Sc. Marketing, University of Lucknow; B.Sc. Physics, University of Kanpur
Nandini
Mullaji
Nandini is a Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company, focusing on public and social sector in the Washington DC office, Even at this young age, she's already handled a wide range of consulting experiences, mostly in strategy roles for Ashoka, Sweetgreen, Georgetown University, the Indian Government, and the Department of Education. The two accomplishments that Nandani is the most proud of are having founded the India Innovation Lab and a literacy nonprofit in India respectively.B.S. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; MBA. Stanford Graduate School of Business (Expected; Class of 2021)
MBA, Harvard School of Business, Harvard University
BA, Georgetown University
Shruti
Akkepeddi
Shruti has 6 years of experience that spans three major industry segments: consulting, e-commerce, and communications. She got her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in 2015. In her last role, she worked as a management consultant in a Big 4 company where she specialized in public sector focused consulting. Pre-MBA, she worked in the sales and client management team at a payment gateway firm, managing the firm's biggest e-commerce clients, as well as being a key communications advisor to leading technology brands.
MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
B.Sc. Economics, Delhi University.
Sreekanth
Veerapandian
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MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
B.Sc. Economics, Delhi University.
Natasha Barnes
Natasha is a Cyber security professional with 7 years of experience in information assurance and cyber security for private and public sector clients. Currently a Manager in the Aronson Technology Risk Services Group, Natasha is the IT Audit Manager and lead assessor for the IT portion of financial statement audits plus System and Organization Controls (SOC) readiness audits. She also oversees Governance, Risk and Compliance consulting engagements through business and practice development in addition to client delivery.
Previously Natasha worked at PWC for 5+ years, recruiting first into the summer internship program and then landing a full-time offer for 5 1/2 years.
B.S. Security and Risk Analysis, Pennsylvania State University
B.A. Public Relations and Advertising, Pennsylvania State University
Bhargav Shukla
Bhargav has over twenty years of tech/IT experience in several industries, including shipping Lines Management, Pharmaceuticals, and Communications. Bhargav has worked on everything from design to implementation to managing platforms and systems supporting business units. At Microsoft he served as an advisor to multiple enterprise customers ensuring successful project execution and increased adoption of IT systems through stability and drastically reduced reactive management. At KEMP Bhargav leads cross functional teams and manages technology alliance with partners including Microsoft, VMware and others. Bhargav has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure and Servers/Services categories for four years running.
MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
B.Sc. Economics, Delhi University.
Ashim Agarwal
Ashim has about 4+ years of experience in Consulting, in the Banking & Finance vertical. At Capgemini Inc, one of the largest global consulting firms, he started out as a Junior Associate and worked up to more senior level positions; most recently Ashim was the Lead Developer & Designer on several multi-million dollar projects for clients like Capital One and Australia New Zealand Bank, with a specific focus on architectural design, strategic implementation, and overall project management for new portfolio launches. He has have worked with both incoming junior associates and senior-mid-level employees, liaising across different cross-functional teams. One of his major assignments was guiding a team of 5 Junior Associates on the optimization of one of the biggest data analysis platforms at ANZ, through an inter-mix of strategy, marketing, and functional design approaches.
MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
