Career Boost: Activate™
Turn effort into results by upgrading your job-search strategy.
For college seniors and recent graduates who are putting in the effort, but need a sharper strategy to truly break through.
Career Boost: Activate Is For You If …
You’re putting real effort into your search, but not getting the traction you want. Career Boost: Activate™ is designed to help you sharpen your strategy, strengthen your story, and qualify for roles that match your aspirations.
Upgrade Your Process and Activate Your Career!
Career Boost: Activate is a structured, advisor-guided system built around seven interconnected themes: Orient, Clarify, Assess, Generate, Structure, Perform, and Adapt & Adopt. We’ll help you understand the market, clarify your direction, assess fit, sharpen your story, build stronger tools, take focused action, and master a battle-tested approach you can use throughout your career.
What You May Be Looking For
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Insight into why your current search is not producing stronger results — and what may need to change.
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Guidance on which roles, companies, and opportunities are best aligned with your goals.
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Traction through sharper positioning, better applications, more impactful conversations, and stronger interview performance.
How We Help
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Upgrade your process by identifying what’s working, what’s not, and where your search needs to become more strategic.
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Strengthen your story by sharpening your positioning, job targets, resumes, profiles, and networking strategy.
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Improve your execution by using modern tools, including AI, and practicing the conversations, interviews, and follow-up that create traction.
What You Walk Away With
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Effectiveness in running a more focused, strategic, and efficient search.
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Confidence as your stronger execution leads to more conversations, better interviews, and serious momentum.
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Results in the form of sharper positioning, stronger opportunities, and, in many cases, enticing job offers.
Client Wins: Activating Promising Careers
Leancarlos E., Providence, RI
From college student to cybersecurity privacy advisor.
Highlights of our collaboration …
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Developing a Career Map for cybersecurity roles.
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Creating custom tools to predict outcomes of job applications.
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Simulating winning networking and job interview conversations.
What Career Boost: Activate includes:
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A personalized Career Boost Playbook that brings your goals, market research, target roles, skill gaps, networking plan, application tools, AI prompts, and next steps into one practical system.
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A series of custom-designed Career Boost Sprints where you work directly with IQC Founder Mark Sargent to sharpen your strategy, strengthen your story, and build momentum toward better-fit opportunities.
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Each 2–3 week sprint may include strategic planning, labor-market insights, target-role analysis, skill and tool development, guided practice, and a focused 1:1 working session.
Career Boost: Activate is offered in three packages: Core, Plus, and Premier. Core gives you a focused 3-sprint push, usually spanning 6–8 weeks; Plus gives you a guided 5-sprint campaign, usually spanning 10–12 weeks; and Premier gives you an 8-sprint, end-to-end support experience, usually spanning 16–20 weeks. Learn more.