Elite Careers Strategy
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Introduce a family to ECS.

Specialist private careers advisory for the families you advise, from school to first role. Individual strategy, a dedicated client team and a clearly scoped engagement.

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Kristin Irish, former Head of IB Campus Recruiting, UBS Investment Bank, New York; former Early Career Program Manager, Jane Street; former Deputy Director of Career Development, Yale School of Management
"The strongest career strategist I have encountered - anywhere in the world."

Kristin Irish

Previous roles

Kristin Irish, former Head of IB Campus Recruiting, UBS Investment Bank, New York; former Early Career Program Manager, Jane Street; former Deputy Director of Career Development, Yale School of Management.

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A clear introduction process

  1. Introduce the family, with their permission.
  2. Hassan leads a confidential Private Diagnostic.
  3. ECS sets out the proposed scope in writing.
  4. The family decides whether to proceed.

Updates to you are shared only with the family’s consent.

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Karam Kahlon, named ECS private client

A four-year private advisory engagement

Karam Kahlon

University of Exeter. HSBC 2026 Investment Banking Internship and Blackstone 2026 Spring Insight Programme.

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Meet the client team · What an engagement contains · Coverage and speaking

When to introduce ECS

  1. A strong record is not converting. Good grades and a good university, but applications, tests or interviews are not producing offers.
  2. A costly next step has no diagnosis. A further degree, a gap year or a change of degree is being weighed to fix a problem nobody has identified.
  3. A deadline or a move is close. An assessment centre or interview within weeks, or a family planning entry to careers in London, New York, Hong Kong or Singapore.
  4. The family wants structure. An accountable, scoped engagement rather than ad hoc help, from sixth form to the first years of a career.

ECS is not the right introduction for a family seeking a guarantee or a one-off CV edit, or where a candidate under 18 has no parent or guardian taking part.

Download the dossier for advisers (PDF)

For private bankers, family-office principals and wealth or education advisers whose clients ask for help with a son or daughter's career. Elite Careers Strategy (ECS) is a London-based private careers advisory for candidates aiming for corporate law, investment banking, private equity and consulting.

Who it is for

  • Private bankers and wealth advisers asked by a client for a name they can trust.
  • Family offices looking after the next generation's education and early career.
  • Education advisers and school counsellors whose students are moving into the most selective graduate programmes.

Confidentiality

ECS does not disclose a family's engagement to anyone, including the person who introduced them, without that family's consent.

What ECS does and does not do

  • ECS prepares candidates for applications, online assessments, interviews and assessment centres.
  • Every engagement is directed by Hassan Akram and run day to day by the ECS client team. Intake is limited each year.
  • ECS does not guarantee offers. Hiring decisions sit with employers.
  • 106 documented outcomes and selection progressions across 53 candidate journeys. How we count outcomes.
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Standards

How every engagement is protected.

A written plan

Every engagement runs on a written plan. The plan, session records, assigned work and feedback are held together by the firm in the ECS private client platform.

Cover

If Hassan cannot take a scheduled session, the client team contacts the family the same day and reschedules within five working days.

Continuity between sessions

Catrina Mira, Client Success, is the day-to-day contact for every candidate between sessions, so nothing depends on one inbox.

Candidates under 18

A parent or guardian completes or joins the application and takes part in the Diagnostic, is told the session times and may attend any session. ECS does not hold sessions with an under-18 candidate in person or outside a scheduled Zoom call.

Confidentiality

Nothing about a family is shared with anyone, including the person who introduced them, without that family’s consent.

Introductions

Introductions from private banks, family offices and advisers are acknowledged within one working day.

Next step

Introduce a family

The family completes a short, confidential form and names you as the introducer. Everything after is between ECS and the family. You are kept informed only with their consent.

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