The answer is the same forty times a year

A sophomore asks her coach how banking recruiting works. He tells her what he told the last one: it starts earlier than she thinks, and she should talk to a few alumni who did it. Maybe he remembers two names. Maybe he means to follow up.

Forty times a year, roughly, across every industry his players are curious about. The advice is good. It is also trapped in his head, delivered one conversation at a time, and inconsistent by the time it reaches the twelfth person.

Meanwhile the directory has eleven alumni in finance and she has no idea which one would actually take her call.

What changed

Career Tracks is one page per industry. The program writes it once.

Each track holds a title, whatever the program wants to say in its own words, an optional PDF guide, and — the part that matters — the alumni to talk to.

The three people to actually ask

The names under each track are not everyone in that industry. They are the two or three alumni the program has designated as the point people.

That is an Industry Board: a small, admin-picked group per vertical. A senior and a recent grad and someone in the middle, ideally, so there is a right person whatever the question is.

Nobody volunteers for this. A coach adds them, which is exactly why a nervous junior will write to them — being on the list is the program vouching for the introduction.

The badge travels

Board members carry a badge wherever they show up in the network.

Huddle AI knows about them too. When a member asks about breaking into an industry, the assistant includes at least one board member in what it suggests — even if that alum never opted into mentoring. Being a point person is the opt-in.

Here it is end to end:

For coaches

Two settings, and they work independently — a board with no track is still useful, and a track with no board is just a guide page.

Building a board takes about a minute: name the vertical, search your members, add two or three.

You can add alumni who have not signed in yet, which matters more than it sounds — most programs know exactly who the right person is long before that person claims their profile.

Tracks take longer, because you are writing them. Start with the industry you explain most often. One page, in your voice, with the three names at the bottom. That is the whole thing.

One thing to try this week

Write down the advice you gave the last player who asked about your most common industry. That is a track. It does not need to be polished, it needs to exist somewhere other than your head.