For early-career talent

You did everything right. The job market still isn't answering.

Early Career Launchpad is the playbook for finding opportunity, building and showing your skills, and landing your start in a market that changed the rules without telling you.

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Built from the hiring side Yours to keep Includes NICO, your AI companion
Laura Cloney, Founder of LCTalentLab
"From the hiring side of the table, now firmly on yours." Laura Cloney · Founder
The gap

You followed the advice. The market changed anyway.

You followed the advice. Got the degree. Built the resume. Applied everywhere.

And mostly, you have heard nothing back. Not even a no. Just silence.

It is easy to start wondering if the problem is you. It isn't. The early-career market has genuinely changed. Entry-level roles are harder to reach, AI now screens applications before a human ever sees them, and "apply to everything and wait" quietly stopped working. Nobody handed your generation the new rules.

That is the gap Early Career Launchpad closes.

What changes

What changes inside Early Career Launchpad

This is not another list of generic job-search tips. It is a clear, practical system built from real hiring experience, the view from the side of the table that actually decides who gets through. By the end, you will know how to:

01

Read the market for what it actually is, so the search stops feeling like shouting into the void.

02

Build proof of work and a personal brand that get you noticed without years of experience.

03

Find opportunity in the places roles actually get filled, not just the job boards everyone else is flooding.

04

Position yourself, interview, and negotiate with genuine confidence.

05

Navigate your first months on the job: performance, mentorship, and reading a workplace.

What's inside

A complete program you can start the moment you join.

The full course

Your start-to-finish playbook

Building your playbook, building career assets, finding opportunity, landing the role, and thriving in your first years.

NICO

An AI companion, fully trained on the program

Built specifically for early-career talent and trained on the entire Launchpad program, so it guides you in plain language and is there whenever you get stuck, anytime you need it.

Tools & frameworks

Things you can use today

Practical templates and frameworks for your real search. Not theory you have to translate yourself.

Work through it at your own pace, and come back to it whenever you need it.

Who it's for

Built for the place you're actually in.

You do not need experience, connections, or a perfect resume to start. That is the point.

✓A current student or recent grad trying to land a first real role.
✓Early in your career and feeling stuck in the application black hole.
✓Switching into a new field and starting closer to the beginning.
✓Doing everything you were told to do, and still not getting traction.
Why trust this

Built from the hiring side of the table.

Early Career Launchpad was built by LCTalentLab, founded by Laura Cloney. Over 20 years, she built global talent acquisition teams and early-career programs for private and public companies across technology, medical device, SaaS, and healthcare, hiring at every level from early-career talent to the C-suite.

This is the playbook from someone who sat on the hiring side and decided who got through, written for the people trying to get in.

Early feedback
★★★★★
"This is so much more than just resume writing! I am blown away. I truly feel like I have the support, advice, and guidance to think through not only finding a job, but really doing well once I land."
Catt · Early Career Launchpad participant
Two paths

Two ways to move forward.

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Self-paced

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Live workshop

Prefer to go over this with peers?

A small group workshop to work through the playbook live with people navigating the same thing. Build your network and a community to lean on while you make your move. No dates are set yet. Join the waitlist and you will be first to hear when the first workshop opens.

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FAQ

Questions people usually have.

You can find endless generic advice for free. What you cannot easily find is a single, structured system that shows you how to find opportunity, build your personal brand, and prepare for your first roles, all in one place and in the order you actually need it. NICO is trained on the entire program and is there whenever you get stuck, so you are never working through it alone. And if you join a cohort, the people in it become an early network that grows with you as your career does. That is what saves you months of guessing.

No. NICO is built to be simple, a companion that guides you in plain language. If you can text, you can use it.

Nothing can guarantee a specific outcome, and anyone who promises one is not being honest with you. What this does is give you the moves that genuinely improve your odds: getting seen, showing real proof, and reaching people directly instead of waiting in a queue. It is built for this market, not the one that existed five years ago.

A live workshop goes deeper, with structure, accountability, and a small group working through it together. We are planning live cohorts now. Join the waitlist and you will be first to know when dates open, with no commitment.

The market changed. Reading it is the skill that lasts.

Most of your competition is still waiting for the old rules to come back. Learning to read what the market needs now, and navigate toward it, is your opening.

Get Early Career Launchpad for $47 One-time payment. Yours to keep. Start the moment you join. Or join the workshop waitlist →