The Proof Project is six weeks and one genuine project, built with expert guidance from people who've spent years on the hiring side. It goes on your resume and finally gives you something to talk about, with your head up, in any interview. It isn't a course. It isn't coaching. It's work you did yourself.
You've sent out application after application. You've watched people you know post the internship, the offer, the "thrilled to announce." And it keeps coming back to the same wall: not enough experience. Here's the truth though. It was never that you couldn't do the work. You've just never been handed a real chance to prove you can. That's the whole reason The Proof Project exists.
Entry roles want experience. Experience needs a role. Most students are stuck in that loop with nothing concrete to show for it.
Most of your experience so far was shared. You worked on a team, owned a piece, and split the credit. That makes it hard to represent full ownership when a recruiter asks what you actually drove.
One real sample you scoped, built, and can defend changes the conversation. It's something you did and owned, not something you took.
It comes down to one project in your field, built over six weeks and presented to a review panel at the end. Here's everything that comes with it.
The work is yours, every bit of it. What we bring is everything around it: the scoping, the guidance, the standard, and the panel.
Together we settle on a project in your field, one that fits the time and can be judged honestly, so it proves something real about what you can do.
We stop together and take an honest look at where your work stands, with weeks still left to act on it.
This is where you do the real building, week by week. When you hit something hard, we work through it together, and we keep the bar high the whole time.
You present what you built to a review panel. You defend your choices and answer for the work, the way you would in an interview.
You're never on your own in this. We check in, we keep you moving, and at the midpoint we sit down together for an honest look at where things stand, with plenty of time still left to make it stronger. What matters to us is that you cross the finish line with something you're genuinely proud of, so we stay in your corner the whole way.
We kept seeing the same thing: students with real pedigree, good schools and strong grades, who still had almost nothing to put on a resume and even less to talk about in an interview. One of them needed experience more than she needed more advice, so we built her a project to sink her teeth into. It went well, and she landed a job. We tried it with a few more students, and theirs went well too. That was the moment we looked at each other and thought, we might really have something here. That's how The Proof Project began, and it's still the whole point: helping you build something you're proud of and can speak to, in real depth, when it counts. We were tired of watching capable people get filtered out for a box they were never handed the chance to check. The standard behind all of it is Peri Ginsberg's, from a Cornell engineering background and more than 30 years on the hiring side, deciding who got the offer.
Not a course you click through alone. Every session happens with someone who knows exactly what recruiters look for.
At the end you present to a review panel: Peri and Erin, plus a subject-matter guest when your project calls for one.
The goal isn't just to finish something. It's to finish something you can stand behind when someone who knows the field starts asking real questions.
There's no template here, and no short list of who this is for. Whatever you're studying and whatever roles you're chasing, we can almost always build a project around it. The one thing that shapes it is you: your field, your goals, and the kind of work you want to prove you can do. We build it around the jobs you're actually going after, so what you make points straight at them.
These are two finished projects, each built backward from a real job posting, so every piece of the work maps to something an employer actually asked for. They're here to show you the depth and quality of what you'd walk away with. No two are ever alike, though. We design each project around the person we're building it with: what you're studying, the roles you're chasing, and the work you most want to prove you can do. The standard never changes. What it's built around is you.
Reverse engineered from a Financial Reporting Analyst role.
A driver based Excel model on a real public company, a three scenario forecast with sensitivity analysis, a short written report, and a panel presentation.
Reverse engineered from a Customer Growth and Retention Analyst role.
An RFM segmentation of a real customer base, retention KPIs, a designed A/B test with a projected read, a recommendation memo, and a panel presentation.
Both examples use real, public datasets. The numbers shown are illustrative, built to demonstrate the method.
Picture the interview. They lean in and ask you to walk them through something you're proud of building. Instead of reaching for a class project or going quiet, you have a real answer: one you built, one you've practiced telling, one that's yours. That shift, from apologizing for what you haven't done to talking about what you have, is what these six weeks are really for.
So you know exactly what you're buying:
Coaching takes the experience and materials you already have and gets you positioned, searching, and ready to interview. The Proof Project is for the other problem, when you don't have the experience yet. You build one real work sample over six weeks, supervised start to finish.
No. Every project is built around your field. We pick something with you that's real, doable in the time, and solid enough for a panel to honestly evaluate.
That's what the midpoint review at week 3 is for. You get an honest read on where you stand with weeks left to act on it, so the final panel is never a surprise.
One real project you scoped, built, and defended, worded as an independent project supervised by Workforce Ready Now. We word it honestly, never as a job, so it holds up when a recruiter asks you to walk through it.
We settle on your project together first, then set a start date. It runs six weeks from there, with the midpoint review at the end of week 3.
The free consult is where we figure out if it's a fit and map out your project together.