​You're invited to our first open gathering!

​What are we talking about?

​A first open gathering of people committed to redesigning how careers begin—bringing together employers, educators, workforce leaders, and builders who believe early career should be human, developmental, and worthy of care.

​Who It’s For

​This community intentionally brings together people

• ​A career services or workforce leader navigating growing demand with limited resources

• ​An employer, HR, or People leader hiring early talent and feeling the signal gap

• ​A builder or operator creating early-career programs, platforms, or pathways

• ​Early-career individuals whose lived experience deserves to shape what comes next

​If you care about early-career outcomes and want to learn across perspectives, you belong here.

​What We’ll Do Together

​We host events each month, usually the 3rd Friday, and each gathering is designed to be:

• ​Low-pressure and high-trust

• ​Grounded in real experience, not theory

• ​Focused on what’s changing now, especially as AI reshapes early work

​Expect thoughtful conversation on a specific important topic, shared sense-making, and time to connect with others who care deeply about this space.

​Why come?

​If you’ve felt the early-career system is misaligned, but haven’t had the right space to work on it, this is that space.

​Come as you are.
Bring your questions.
Help shape what early career becomes.

​About the Collective

​The Early Career Collective is a growing movement to redesign how careers begin—bringing together those shaping early-career systems to learn, collaborate, and build what comes next.

​This gathering marks our first open invitation.

​​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!

​Why We Exist

​The world of work has changed faster than the systems built to support early-career talent.

​AI has raised the baseline of what “entry-level” work requires, while simultaneously compressing or eliminating many of the roles that once provided learning through doing. Traditional career ladders are shorter or unclear. Work-based learning and internships are harder to access. And signals like degrees, resumes, and job descriptions no longer map cleanly to how work actually happens.

​As a result, early-career individuals are making high-stakes decisions with limited context—while employers, educators, and workforce leaders are being asked to prepare, hire, and support talent using tools that weren’t designed for this reality.

​The Early Career Collective exists to address this gap—not through debate or theory, but through shared responsibility and action.