Education

UC Irvine

B.A., History & English

UCLA

Certificate College Counseling

Podcasts

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368: How to Start a College Admissions Counseling Company w/ Kevin McMullin, Collegewise [Main T4C episode]

Kevin McMullin--- the founder and Head of Talent at Collegewise, the world’s largest college admissions counseling company. Kevin founded Collegewise in Irvine, California, in 1999 using his last paycheck from his previous job. He started out that fall working with nine students at their kitchen tables to help them find..

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366: Why Famous Colleges Aren’t Better Colleges w/ Kevin McMullin, Collegewise [K-Cup DoubleShot]

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“Everybody has their own unique talents, and if you can invite people to unleash those, there’s a lot of magic that’ll happen at work.”

Best Career Advice

“Don’t use that lack of clarity about what you want to do with your life as an excuse to withhold your best work.”

Career Challenge

“We had four offices, I was running it all by myself. I didn’t have any business partners, nothing like that. And as soon as the economy went south and families were losing all their college savings, losing their 401(k)s, losing their jobs — they don’t have the kind of disposable income to hire a service like ours. So we saw our business shrink about 40% that year.”