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Internship coaching · Business students starting recruiting
12 pilot students · 100% landed an internship or offer
Coached until your first offer.
For business students starting recruiting. Built for finance and accounting; the outreach and interview system works for any business role. 12 weeks of training and mocks, then weekly check-ins and mocks every other week until you land an offer.
12 pilot students · 100% landed an internship or offerBook a parent call
Twenty minutes with Tyler and Kenji to talk through your student's situation and whether the program fits.
12 of 12 pilot students landed internships · Wells Fargo · Morgan Stanley · PIMCO · Tricon
“He grew tenfold.”
Mangesh · Ishank's dad
Tyler Ho, Founder & Head Coach
- 10+ internships across finance, accounting, sales, and AI engineering
- 12 pilot students, 100% landed an internship or offer
- 2027 incoming investment banking summer analyst, Barclays
12students coached in the pilot
100%landed an internship or offer12 of 12
12seats in the founding cohort
Pilot results. Hiring decisions belong to employers.
How many internships I landed
Nathaniel
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Where pilot students landed
- The Amazing Group
- Ditto
- Valemont Group
- Holter Holdings
Tricon is a Blackstone portfolio company. Employers shown are where pilot students interned or received offers. First Offer Academy is not affiliated with these companies.
How it works
From Week 0 to your first offer.
- 1Week 0
Get ahead.
Pre-work over winter break, starting the day you enroll.
- 2Weeks 1–8
Build.
Your Candidate Brand, Outreach System, Story Bank, Track Technicals, Interview Reps, and Accountability Pod.
- 3Weeks 9–12
Offer Sprint.
Technical and behavioral mocks, plus prep and debriefs for every networking call you land.
- 4Until your offer
Keep going.
A 20-minute weekly check-in and a mock interview every other week until you receive an internship offer or May 31, 2027, while you keep up 100 outreach emails and 6–8 networking calls a week.
The problem
College teaches the major. Nobody teaches the job search.
Access is gated.
The best recruiting help sits inside selective campus clubs, and most freshmen don't get in.
The timeline is earlier than anyone says.
Recruiting for many internships starts sophomore year or earlier, and most students find out too late.
Career centers are built for everyone.
One advisor for thousands of students can't review every email or mock-interview you each week.
What the student leaves with
These are the six parts every student works through. They describe the work, not an outcome: hiring decisions belong to employers.
Candidate Brand
An honest gap check, a resume graded against our rubric, and a recorded 60-second intro.
Read moreOutreach System
A target list of 50 with named contacts, 50 sequenced emails a week, and a thank-you after every call.
Read moreStory Bank
8 behavioral stories, chosen for uniqueness and edited line by line.
Read moreTrack Technicals
Weeks 5–6 split by track: Finance or Accounting.
Read moreInterview Reps
A weekly 60-minute 1:1, live reps in every session, and graded mocks in Weeks 6–7.
Read moreAccountability & Pods
A pod of three, a Sunday scoreboard, and progress reports for parents.
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Two tracks
Everyone shares Weeks 1–4, then splits by track for technicals in Weeks 5–6.
Finance
Investment banking, private equity, asset management, corporate finance, FP&A.
What changed, in their words.
From shy to confident
Maddie
As a first-generation student, breaking into the finance industry felt overwhelming… I went from feeling completely unprepared to securing my first offers with total confidence.
He's tough; if something's off, he'll say so directly and push me to do better. But there's no question too small for him.
What I appreciated most was that his advice was always specific to my goals and experience rather than just giving me generic recruiting advice.
Founding cohort · January 2027
Limited seats. Tuition and scholarship details are covered on the parent call.
Offer-or-refund
Do the work and we stand behind it. If your student hits every weekly minimum through May 31, 2027 and doesn't receive an internship offer, paid or unpaid, we refund your full tuition.
Free events
All events →Free sessions for parents and students
Students
Your 60-Second Intro
Students
Build Your Networking Target List & Emailing Etiquette
FAQ
Questions parents ask
What if my student doesn't land an offer?
Check-ins and mocks continue through May 31, 2027. If they've met every weekly minimum and still have no offer, you get a full tuition refund. Terms: Any internship offer, paid or unpaid, counts, including one that's declined. Minimums must be met and logged every week (one makeup week allowed). Dropping, pausing, or missing minimums past the makeup week ends eligibility. Refund requests are due by June 15, 2027 and paid within 30 days.
Do you place students?
No. We coach students through every application, including Extern externships, and cover the Extern fee. The offer is earned by the student.
My student is a freshman. Isn't this too early?
No. Many internship timelines start sophomore year. Freshman year is when a student builds the resume, the contacts, and the interview stories that get them there.
- For finance, accounting, and a growing share of tech and marketing roles, the students who land internships in sophomore and junior summer usually started building toward them in freshman year. Many find out how early it starts only after the first deadlines have passed.
- The most structured recruiting help on many campuses sits inside selective clubs. Students who don't get in are left to figure it out alone, at the same time as everyone else who didn't get in.
- Online advice is generic by design. It can't look at your student's resume, read their emails before they go out, or tell them what to fix after a mock interview. Feedback on real work, every week, is what changes the result of a search.
What does my student commit to each week?
The weekly session is 90 minutes and the 1:1 is 60 minutes. Outreach on top of that: 3–5 hours a week, rising as outreach ramps up.
- Weeks 1–4: 25 outreach emails and 2 networking calls per week, follow-ups on schedule, every session and 1:1 attended, assignments in by Sunday 11:59 pm, scheduled mocks completed.
- Weeks 5–8: 50 outreach emails and 3 networking calls per week, follow-ups on schedule, every session and 1:1 attended, assignments in by Sunday 11:59 pm, scheduled mocks completed.
- Weeks 9–12: 75 outreach emails and 4–5 networking calls per week, follow-ups on schedule, weekly mock completed, applications logged.
- After Week 12: 100 outreach emails, follow-ups on schedule, 6–8 networking calls, a mock interview every other week, applications logged.
- One makeup week allowed.
- Show up: Attend the weekly session and the 1:1, and check in with the pod every Sunday.
- Two missed weeks in a row triggers a call: If a student misses their minimums two weeks in a row, we set up a call with the student and a parent to reset the plan together.
Is the deposit refundable?
Your deposit is fully refundable through December 15, 2026. After that, it applies to tuition, and the remaining tuition is invoiced separately and due before Week 1. Withdraw before Week 3 for a prorated refund of unused weeks. No refunds after Week 3. If we cancel the cohort, every payment is refunded in full.