Candidates preparing in the open
36 timed drills that mark a build line by line, 109 guides and a live tracker read from employers’ own boards daily. A candidate here has a record of what they have done, not only a CV.
For employers, universities, societies and partners
We know the people you are trying to reach, and what they can do.
Make competitive careers in finance and technology easier to find, understand and earn. Partners help with every part of that sentence: employers who want to find the candidates, universities and societies whose members want to understand the roles, and organisations whose material helps someone earn one.
Why a partner comes here rather than to a bigger audience
A candidate database tells you who applied. What is useful is knowing who can build a debt schedule that ties, who can hold a valuation argument under questioning, and who started preparing six months before anyone asked them to.
Known by what they target
Every account sets a target: the seats, the region, the level and where they are in the cycle. An introduction can be specific because the candidate already was.
Reached where they decide
University finance, investment and technology societies use the tracker and run practitioner sessions with us each term. Introductions come from people we have taught, not from a scraped list.
Nobody is introduced without being asked first, and nothing is shared beyond what a candidate agrees to share. The guides, the glossary and the tracker stay free and open, which is why the network renews itself every cycle.
Employers
Talent teams, hiring managers and founders hiring at analyst, graduate and internship level
Hire people we can vouch for, not names we have scraped.
The candidates on L3VLUP are preparing in the open: they work through timed drills that mark a build line by line, track the programmes they are applying to, and tell us what they are aiming at. An introduction from here starts past the screening questions, because we can say what someone can actually do.
The four things an employer can ask for todayEarly-career introductions
Analyst, graduate and internship hiring. We introduce candidates who have opted in and whose preparation we have seen, with where they are strong and where they are not. Nobody is introduced without being asked first.
Targeted opportunity promotion
Your programme on the tracker the day it opens, in the hub for its seat and region, and in the weekly email to candidates who have set that seat as their target. The tracker already reads your careers page; this is the editorial placement around it.
A presence on L3VLUP
Every firm on the tracker has a company page with its live programmes, process and deadlines. A partner keeps it current and adds what the careers page does not say: who the team is, what the first year looks like, what they look for.
Campus and society access
An evening with a finance, investment or technology society we work with, in a term when the committee is choosing what to run. Introductions come from people we have taught, not from a mailing list.
Sponsored or co-created exercises
Attach your name to a drill the candidates you want are already sitting, or build one around your own case. A graded attempt is a better signal of readiness than a line on a CV, and the candidate keeps the result.
Analyst and graduate readiness training
Modelling, valuation and process training for an incoming class or a first-year cohort, run by a practitioner who reviews analyst work for banks and funds now.
Curated shortlists
For a specific seat: the role, the level, the geography and the timing, and we come back with a short list of opted-in candidates who fit it, with their preparation evidence. Recruiter search comes later, if there is demand for it; curation comes first.
Not just a searchable CV. See what candidates are targeting, how they are preparing and what they can actually do.
Tell us what you are hiring for
Universities & societies
Careers services, finance, investment, consulting and technology societies, and the academics who run employability programmes
Everything your members need to understand the roles and get ready, free, with your name on the page.
The tracker, the guides, the glossary and the drills are free for every student and always will be. A partner society or careers service gets a page of its own, sessions with a practitioner, and the numbers on what its members did with it.
Free tracker and resource integration
Link the deadline tracker, a seat hub or a guide from your own pages, or take a partner page with your society’s name, your tracks and the resources your members use most. Every link stays free to follow.
Practitioner sessions and workshops
A talk or a hands-on session each term: how the process actually works at a bank or a fund, a paper LBO built live, a stock pitch taken apart. Run by someone who sat the spring weeks your first-years are applying to.
A resource page for your members
The guides, drills and hubs for the seats your members target, ordered the way your calendar runs: spring weeks in the autumn, summer internships over winter, assessment centres in the spring.
Student readiness programmes
A structured programme for a cohort, from the first application to the assessment centre, with the drills marked and the progress visible to the committee or the careers service.
Referral and partner tracking
A partner link carries your code, so the accounts it creates and what they go on to do are counted against it. You see what your members did; nobody sees who they are.
A member discount and a programme agreed with the committee, on top of tools that are free whether or not you partner.
Partner as a society or careers service
Training & content partners
Organisations whose tools, courses or resources genuinely help an early-career candidate in finance or technology
If it helps a candidate, we will put it in front of them and say why.
The resources library already curates free course material, deck libraries and primary sources from other publishers, each with a sentence on what it is for. A partner’s material goes in the same way: because it is useful, said plainly, linked to the source.
Co-created guides and resources
A guide written with a practitioner at your organisation, bylined, placed in the seat it belongs to and linked from the tracker roles it prepares for.
Webinars and events
A session for the candidates preparing for a specific seat or window, promoted to the people who have set that seat as their target.
Referral partnerships
Where a partner’s product is the right next step for a candidate, a tracked referral. Never a paid listing dressed as a recommendation.
Distribution
Placement in the weekly email, the resources library and the seat hubs, for material that earns it.
Curation is the product. A resource is listed for what it teaches, and a reader is told what that is before they leave the page.
Propose a resource or a partnership
Executive & experienced hiring
Firms hiring at associate level and above, or confidentially
Senior and confidential mandates run through Third Wave Capital.
L3VLUP is the start of a career. For the middle and the top of one, Third Wave Capital runs partner-led executive search across investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, venture capital, asset management and AI, sourced from a working network rather than a database. Same operator, a different end of the career, and a mandate arriving here reaches it in one step.
Retained and confidential search
Partner-led from the first conversation through to placement, a limited number of mandates at a time, discreet where the mandate requires it.
Search with an AI counterpart
A placement paired with AI-native workflows built around the role, so the hire arrives with more capacity than the seat had before.
Not an early-career product and never confused with one. The tracker, the drills and the candidate side of this site stay about the first seat.
Describe the mandate
Start with what you need.
Tell us the role, the level and the timeline, or the society and the term. If it is early-career, we come back with people and a plan. If it is a search, it goes to Third Wave Capital and a partner picks it up.