The grades got them in. The offer still has to be won.
Founder-led private advisory for families targeting corporate law, investment banking, private capital and consulting. 10,000+ applications reviewed. 100+ documented outcomes.
Introduced by a private bank, family office or existing ECS family? Request the priority founder-call route.
Find the failed stage first →
The same decision looks different for the candidate, the parent and the adviser.
ECS qualifies the route first, then the candidate. That keeps the Diagnostic serious and keeps Hassan's time for families where the raw material, urgency and decision-maker are aligned.
Every Private ECS Diagnostic is led personally by Hassan Akram. Sessions delivered to audiences connected to Yale SOM, Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan.
Independent sessions. No affiliation or endorsement implied.
Self-identify in one tap
Where is the process breaking?
Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, or strategy gap. The Diagnostic starts from the failed stage and works back.
Not getting interviews.
- CV not converting
- Written applications not landing
- Online tests / HireVue screening out
- Evidence positioning not earning attention
Getting interviews, not progressing.
- "Why this career?" answers not landing
- Commercial fluency thin
- Technical depth missing the bar
- Follow-ups and answer architecture weak
Reaching finals or schemes, not converting.
- Assessment centres not converting
- Final rounds and partner interviews stalling
- Vacation scheme not converting to TC
- Spring scheme not converting to return offer
Strong education, weak strategy.
- Strong grades, target university, real ambition
- Process is being misread, not the candidate
- No structural diagnosis of where the breakdown is
- Time pressure compounding cycle by cycle
The Diagnostic is a 45-minute structured assessment. Parent or sponsor welcome. Outcomes vary and are never guaranteed.
The free work already produces offers.
Candidates have converted Magic Circle and elite-firm outcomes using the public ECS frameworks alone, with no paid engagement. If the method works in the open, the private engagement is the most de-risked decision a serious family can make: the same method, founder-led, applied to your firms, your timeline and your specific selection problem.
Clifford Chance SPARK place (Queen Mary, free-content) and a Clifford Chance London Training Contract offer (Russell Group, free-content) were both engineered on the public frameworks.
Evidence held on file. Outcomes vary. No affiliation implied.
White & Case London Training Contract
Four cycles of applications without Assessment Centre conversion.
Written evidence, firm-specific motivation and Assessment Centre preparation were not yet at elite-US-firm standard.
Training Contract offer at White & Case London. Redacted offer letter held on file.
Evidence held on file. Outcomes vary. No affiliation implied.
Read the full case →Four front-door cases. The full archive is still live.
White & Case London Training Contract
Four years of rejection before the engagement. Redacted offer letter held on file. Anonymised at client request. The lead ECS proof pillar in corporate law.
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Karam Kahlon
Started with no investment-banking interviews. Multi-year ECS engagement, named with permission, with evidence held on file.
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Kalen Harrald · Clifford Chance SPARK
Magic Circle Spring Insight scheme via the public ECS frameworks. Named with permission. No paid engagement. Evidence held on file.
Read the case →Private capital secondaries placement
Private equity secondaries outcome. Identifying details are restricted on the public site to protect the family and candidate.
Read the case →100+ documented outcomes sit behind the short proof stack, with selected cases written up in the public archive.
Evidence held on file. Outcomes vary. No affiliation implied.
Anonymised offer letters held on file.
Identifying details redacted at client request. Diligence-grade evidence can be reviewed privately where consent and identity protection allow. Evidence held on file. Outcomes vary. No affiliation implied.
Audiences connected to MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, Harvard Business School and Wellington College.
Independent sessions for MBA student clubs and campus visits. ECS is independent and unaffiliated. No partnership or endorsement implied.
"The strongest career strategist I have encountered - anywhere in the world."
Founder-led. Application only. Three stages, no shortcuts.
Diagnostic
45-minute founder-led profile assessment. Parent or sponsor attends. Scope and investment discussed only if there is fit.
Strategy
Stage-by-stage offer-engineering against the firms you are targeting. CV, written application, interview, assessment centre, superday.
Conversion
Per-firm execution to the offer line. Founder-led throughout the engagement. Application only, ~30 clients per year.
The Parents' Guide to Elite Careers.
A plain-English briefing for parents and sponsors whose child is targeting Magic Circle, US Elite, bulge bracket investment banking, private equity, venture capital or strategy consulting. Founder-led perspective, no obligation, no sales pressure.
Evidence held on file. Outcomes vary. No affiliation implied.
One Diagnostic. Founder-led. Application only.
Call 1 is the Private ECS Diagnostic. If suitable, ECS follows with Programme Scoping and a Family Decision Call.
Request a Private DiagnosticOutcomes vary. Evidence held on file. ECS is independent and unaffiliated.