founder’s office intern, all things talent
may-october, 2025
Alongside managing the content calendar and sourcing 200+ candidates, the most interesting thing I worked on was a research report on Gen-Z at work which was prepared for CultureCon 2025 in collaboration with all things talent.
We ran two surveys: one for founders and senior operators and one for Gen-Z professionals. Then I spotted the patterns while synthesising the responses, and turned the findings into a designed report distributed to attendees, while a separate presentation was delivered at the conference itself. The core tension that the data kept surfacing: what leaders might read as fragility or entitlement, Gen-Z experiences as a basic need for trust and a chance to contribute meaningfully rather than simply execute instructions.
Before this, I had worked in a startup but inside a department writing blogs, optimising for SEO, and posting on a schedule that was made for me. att was the first time I felt like I had agency over my work. it was landing on someone's actual problem. I was writing for the founders directly, building their personal brand on LinkedIn, working on research that fed into their thinking. I also supported hiring and helped close 3 roles along the way. My work felt less like a task and more like it was part of something someone actually cared about. That difference turned out to matter a lot to me.