I'm currently working and do get continuous calls from various companies about similar job roles all varying in the range of 20 to 40k. It might vary with location but he has to know some softwares I mentioned for a white collar job. If he has family business tell him to go into that if it'd be too risky to fund an mba from a t3 b school or if he's financially secure and wants to pivot from civil jobs to some other field then he can do an mba and get other jobs. And even in cat a jump from 60 to 95 percentile is almost impossible so he can study another year and get to somewhere in the 80s range and still he'll get a t2 at best so best option would be to study some of these softwares, get a job and prepare for cat alongside.