Most podcast introductions start with the host explaining why they're the right person to be doing this.
Mine starts with me admitting I froze.
I've run more than 500 client meetings a year for five years as a Senior Account Manager at Prosple, working across 70+ Australian employer relationships in the early talent space. Walking into a conversation is the thing I feel most at home doing professionally.
Then I tried to start a podcast and couldn't press record. For months.
The question I couldn't shake: why would anyone want to listen to me? What eventually broke it was a simple realisation. It's not about me. I'm just a microphone.
In Episode 0, I sit down with Simon, a colleague from Prosple with a background on the employer side of early talent hiring. He turns the tables and asks me the questions I've been planning to ask my guests.
What comes out is an honest account of why Future of Work Voices exists.
The gap I keep seeing across every industry I work in: graduate recruiters are typically millennials, reporting to Gen X hiring managers, with baby boomer budget holders making the decisions. And they're all trying to attract Gen Z, a generation with completely different expectations of employers than any group before them.
I'm a tail-end millennial, born four years before Gen Z begins. On paper, no generation is closer to them. In practice, I feel miles away. If the gap feels that wide to me, working in early talent every day, it's worth asking how wide it feels to someone three rungs further up the generational ladder.
Future of Work Voices is built around one question: what does Gen Z actually think about going to work? Not what employers assume. Not what reports suggest. What students say in a real conversation, when the power dynamics are off the table.
This podcast is for HR leads, TA managers, hiring managers, and anyone in early talent who wants to understand this generation from the source.
Episode 0. The one where I almost didn't start.
