Career Boost: GearUp™
Become a standout candidate for internships and early-career jobs.
For college students with a general sense of direction who need help sharpening their strategy, story, and game plan.
Career Boost: GearUp Is For You If …
You have ideas about where you want to go, but aren’t sure how to turn them into a strong internship or early-career search. Career Boost: GearUp helps you understand employer expectations, timeline requirements, and how to position yourself with clarity and confidence.
Gear Up for Internships - Then Get After It!
Career Boost: GearUp helps clients prepare for the internship search with focus, practical tools, and purpose. Through seven connected steps — Orient, Clarify, Assess, Generate, Structure, Perform, and Adapt & Adopt — clients understand the internship landscape, clarify target roles, assess fit and readiness, build targeted resumes and robust profiles, and structure a practical search plan. Beyond immediate outcomes, clients master a repeatable process they can use for future job searches.
What You May Be Looking For
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A clear sense of which internships, roles, and early experiences are actually worth pursuing.
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Help connecting your interests, strengths, coursework, and experience to opportunities that make sense.
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Confidence in telling your story, reaching out to people, and putting yourself forward for the right opportunities.
How We Help
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Clarify your story — We help you connect your interests, strengths, coursework, and experience into a story that makes sense to employers.
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Strengthen your materials — We improve resumes, profiles,, networking strategies, and other techniques you need for the search.
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Practice the process — We help you focus on the right activities and build confidence through practice, feedback, and interview preparation.
What You Walk Away With
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Clarity about your direction - including knowing which industries, companies, locations, and roles are worth pursuing.
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Confidence in telling your story - turning your interests, strengths, coursework, and experience into a compelling narrative.
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Momentum toward results - more targeted applications, better interview performance, and a greater chance of standing out.
Our Clients: Gearing Up and Standing Out
Career Boost: GearUp helped me clarify my goals, understand the local employment market, strengthen my approach to applying for internships, and get comfortable with the interview process. It also helped me land an internship in my chosen field - environmental policy. The experience was such a strong fit for me and the company that I accepted an offer to join the company full-time after graduation.
- Logan Z. Boston, MA
What Career Boost: GearUp 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: GearUp is offered in three packages: Core, Plus, and Premier. Core provides a focused 3-sprint push, usually spanning 6 - 8 weeks; Plus provides a guided 5-sprint campaign, usually spanning 10-12 weeks, and Premier provides an 8-sprint, end-to-end support experience, usually spanning 16-20 weeks. Learn more.