08/09/2026
A few months ago I sat across from a young man who had just finished university. Good grades. Civil engineering. The kind of CV a parent frames and hangs in the sitting room.
He'd been home for almost a year.
I asked him what he'd been doing. He said, "Applying." I asked how many. He'd lost count. Every construction firm, every consultancy, every email address he could find. Silence, mostly. A "we'll get back to you" that never came back.
Then he said something I haven't been able to forget. He said, "Maybe there's just nothing out there for people like me."
I understood why he felt that way. But it wasn't true, and I think somewhere he knew it wasn't.
Because in that same year, someone from his own class had packed a bag for a funded master's in Germany. Another had won a place he never even knew he could apply for. They weren't smarter than him. They weren't better engineers. They simply knew where to look, and they knew how to knock so the door opened.
That's the whole gap. Not talent. Information, and the courage to act on it early.
This is why we built Cohort 4 of AI for Academic and Career Pathways. Two weeks, three evenings a week, all online. You learn to find the opportunities that actually fit you, to write applications that survive a real panel, and to use AI honestly to sharpen your work instead of faking it.
And this time, people who have actually won Chevening, Mastercard and DAAD will sit with you and tell you how they did it. The real story, not the polished one.
You don't leave with notes. You leave with three real applications submitted and a plan for your next ninety days.
Sept 21 to Oct 2. If you've been that young man in the sitting room, this is your way out of the waiting.
Register here: https://forms.gle/UrPhWBEAoqbDdGqs6
AI for Academic & Career Pathways is a 2-week virtual program ( thrice a week) by Hues Apply AI that helps graduates and early-career professionals move from confusion to clarity. For this Cohort, we shall feature Alumni from prestigious scholarships such as Chevening, Mastercard and DAAD who will s...