🌞 Earlywork Monthly Update (September 2023)
🌞 Earlywork Monthly Update (September 2023)
Our first fellow success hire, winning Best New Idea, and a Top 100 Innovators mention!
Howdy Earlyworkers! 🤠
The Earlybird flock is growing!! We’re now six people, with another two on the way soon 👀
Here’s the vibe:
🐝 The Buzz
What’s been happening with the team?
We welcomed our first-ever fellow success hire, Sejal Madan! She's joined the team to lead Fellow Success in driving meaningful employment outcomes for our fellows and we couldn't be more excited!! If you haven’t already, send her a message on LinkedIn and say hey! 🚀
🏆 We won Best New Idea at Startup Daily’s Tech Awards! Shoutout to all the legends in the community who helped give us early feedback, referred us to students and companies, and mentored our graduates <3
Dan, Jono & Marina were named to The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators for the second year running
Ryan was featured on the Brightness Unleashed podcast! He shared his experience in building a dream career and how to focus effectively on tasks.
Dan jumped in for an episode on Funny Business podcast
We hosted a Sydney Academy social with students across 5 different cohorts! It’s epic to chat IRL with current Academy students and past graduates sharing their experiences. Special shoutout to graduate Dion Bonanno who surprised everyone by bringing doughnuts to the event. 😅🍩
Fellow Success ✍️
September saw 7 Earlywork Academy fellows land their first tech sales jobs!
A big congrats to the following fellows 🎉
Johannes Cheung - SDR at Quickclaim | Former Bartender
Andrew Cortes - SDR at 3P Learning | Former Teacher
Derek Deng - SDR at DocuSign | Former Research Analyst
Gabriel Young - SDR at Afterpay | Former Restaurant Owner
Jose Ruiz- SDR at Shippit | Former UX Designer
Daniel Younes - SDR at Eftsure | Former Founder
Patrick Fitzgerald - SDR at LeadStory | Former Development Manager
The Customer 5 🧠
The Earlywork team’s 5 favourite reads & resources from this month to level up your go-to-market thinking
How to sell in a more human way (30 Minutes to President’s Club)
Why product managers should cold call customers (Jascha Zittel)
Let us know if you’ve come across any other golden stuff on sales & customer success lately!
If you made it to this part of the update, you’re an absolute legend for sticking with it and not switching to Instagram Reels after 30 seconds. Thank you for your attention.
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Team Earlywork (Dan, Jono, Marina, Ryan, Ben & Sejal)