There are plenty of purveyors of career services - scores have sprouted up in the past few months. Why a Next Step Partners Career Action Group?

A firm with credibility at the highest levels. As a firm we have worked with most of the top MBA programs in the U.S. and several abroad, including Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, Carnegie-Mellon, Duke, NYU, UCLA, National University of Singapore and SDA Bocconi. Our Career Handbook for Working Professionals has been adopted by the top three MBA programs in the United States for use with their alumni. We have no direct competition in our niche.

Group leaders who are trained, knowledgeable and credible. All of our coaches have long-term relationships with our firm, are trained and certified in professional coaching, and bring a combination of business experience and education from leading universities and graduate schools that makes clients regard them as peers.

An interactive, integrated learning experience. We make use of a variety of interactive learning methods - presentation, small-group activities, individual assignments, and Q&A - to work through the core content every professional facing career transition needs to know. The workshops use our core career marketing plan framework to tie together essential tools and concepts like resumes, positioning statements, competency stories, interview practice, networking and informational interviewing.

The power of a supportive group of peers. Our Career Action Groups are a proven, cost-effective way for individuals to jump-start their searches, benefit from the ideas of others, and make progress toward personal goals. They enable committed individuals to work through with the essentials of career transition strategies in the context of a supportive, dynamic group environment.