We’re on a mission to close the education-careers gap

Millions of talented people spend years of their lives dreading the work they do. We envision a world where anyone has the opportunity to access a fulfilling career with high impact, no matter their background.

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The Origin Story

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September 2020
September 2020
Earlywork Newsletter Begins

Earlywork was founded by Dan, Jono & Marina in 2020. We began as a newsletter curating early-career resources around tech & startups, after seeing friends struggle to find meaningful job opportunities.

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April 2021
April 2021
Earlywork Village Launch

As our audience grew, we launched a community in 2021 for more intimate career conversations, the Earlywork Village. That's now APAC's largest free community for early-career folks interested in tech & startups, with 6,000+ members.

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March 2022
March 2022
Pre-Seed Funding & Team Goes Full-Time

With the rapid growth of our community, we raised a $700K pre-seed round led by Square Peg, supported by Archangel Ventures and several angels, to go full-time on our dream project and explore ways to help connect fast-growing companies and ambitious, early-career talent.

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January 2023
January 2023
Earlywork Academy Launch

In researching with our community, we spotted a huge gap for tech companies hiring junior sales talent, something that universities weren't addressing.

So, in 2023, we launched Earlywork Academy, APAC's first tech sales bootcamp with a job guarantee, with the vision of building the fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech.

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November 2023
November 2023
Seed Funding

From our first cohort, something clicked. 100% of graduates actively looking for a tech sales role landed an offer, in an average of less than 4 weeks.

We saw an opportunity to dream bigger and raised $1.5M from No Brand, Jelix Ventures, Archangel Ventures and several angels to scale our model and expand into new areas.

The Earlywork team

We're building a better business school for the next generation.

Traditional tertiary education is broken for training talent into tech roles. We're creating a new model that aligns financial incentives with the outcomes students want, teaches skills alongside employers and makes finding a job a core part of the curriculum.

Here are the people working towards that vision.

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Dan
Co-Founder
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Making musical noises with my mouth, nature runs, and cracking open a cheeky board game.

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Quickly rearranging words into anagrams.

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Jono
Co-Founder
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Long walks on the beach, jamming out to some old-school R&B and listening to 4hr podcasts.

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Memorises football player jerseys.

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Marina
Co-Founder
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Classical music (love me some Chopin!), powerlifting and good coffee.

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Perfect pitch - yep i’ll tell you musical notes of any doorbell, car horn, ringtone…

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Ryan
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All things sports and solo travelling!

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Always finding the worst places to eat.

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Ben
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Listening to 80’s tunes, watching The Office once a month and having a laugh with mates.

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Speaking louder than I should (noise-cancelling AirPods don’t help).

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Maddy
Partnerships
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Making yummy food, bopping to lots of house, and giving new things a hot crack.

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(I like to think) I can blind taste the grape and regional of Australian reds.

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Emylyn
Fellow Success
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Karaoke, salsa dancing, eating, DOGS, Monopoly Deal.

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I can quote Disney’s Mulan (the animated one & the only good one) from start to finish, including music & sound effects.

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Oscar
Fellow Admissions
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Watching football, big picnics and watching films.

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Playing the number game with football jerseys.

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Sabrina
Program Manager
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Discovering new coastal walks, eating delicious food and always travelling.

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I have a full directory of Sydney restaurants in my head.

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Sylvia
Advisor
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Watching romantic K-dramas, listening to audio books and summer.

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Seeing the potential in people that they don’t yet see in themselves.

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Our Values

There are many ways to shoot for a mission and vision and so, we ground ourselves in our company values to define what we build, who we hire and how we make decisions.

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Be Student-Obsessed

In every decision we make, we start by defining the best possible learning & employment outcomes for our students and go deep into understanding their needs.

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Build in Days, Think in Years

What we create today isn’t just about the impact we make right now, but long-term consequences for students, employers, and greater society.

We celebrate dreaming big about the future of education & work, and we build and learn quickly to get there. But, we design solutions with intentionality and a broader lens of the future.

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Open Mind, Stay Kind

We celebrate challenging ourselves and each other to be the best builders and people we can be; great ideas can come from anywhere.

But we do this from a place of emotional safety. We take risks together, and give feedback with kindness, trust & mutual respect.

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Own The Gaps

If we see a problem or opportunity without someone leading the charge, we step up and find an owner, whether that be ourselves or our peers.

We won’t always have experts; get comfortable being uncomfortable and don’t be afraid to untangle what looks messy.

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Do More With Less

We’re big believers that outputs ≠ outcomes; great outcomes require fewer inputs than one might expect.

Always ask: what’s the minimum amount of resources required to learn what we need to learn, or deliver a loveable outcome.

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Embrace Your Quirky Turkey

We strive to make play a part of work, and build vulnerable, vibrant human connection into everything we do.

Our lively & cheeky spirit ripples through our content, community & beyond, but we uphold a sense of reliability and trust throughout.

Become an Earlyworker

Our ambition is for Earlywork to become the #1 training ground for customer-oriented startup leaders.

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Solve a meaningful, high-leverage human problem

We’re building programs that can radically change where someone starts out their career. In turn, we provide a springboard to change the course of their life and the impact they make with their work.

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Work with talented people who give a sh*t

Join a team with experience working at top tech companies and startups like Atlassian, Amazon, SafetyCulture and Finder. More importantly, we left those jobs to work on something that we all deeply care about.

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Build your brand with top tech leaders

In working with leading tech companies like MYOB, Shippit, Yotpo and Podium, you'll get to rub shoulders with some of Australia's top commercial leaders.

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Backed by leading investors

Current Job Openings

Customer Service Representative

We’re looking for an entry-level Customer Service Representative to join our team.

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Account Manager

We’re looking for a mid-level Account Manager to join our team.

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Sales Representative

We’re looking for a mid-level Sales Engineer to join our team.

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Keen to join the crew?

We’re always on the look out for smart, kind, ambitious people. Let’s chat!

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