FREE MASTERCLASS · THE PATH TO GETTING YOUR EARLY-CAREER HIRES CLIENT-FACING
You can’t put them in front of a client yet. And you’re not sure why.
They’re smart. They’re motivated. They do the work. You still check it. That gap has a cause, and it isn’t talent. The work that used to teach people how to operate, the sitting beside someone senior, the small assignments, the slow absorption of how things really work, has been compressed out of the job. Managers still grade the same behaviors. Nothing replaced the thing that used to teach them. In 45 minutes you’ll get the specific behaviors managers grade, the number this is costing you right now, and the language to name it in a leadership meeting.
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THE COST NOBODY LINE-ITEMS
You budgeted for the hire. You never budgeted for the ramp.
to replace one early-career hire who doesn't work out.
SHRM – Human Capital Benchmarking
strongly agree they know what's expected of them at work. Down from 56% in 2020.
Gallup, 2024
average Gen Z tenure in the first five years, versus 2.8 for Gen X.
Randstad, Gen Z Workplace Blueprint, 2025
The bar went up on the youngest people in the building. The on-ramp came out. Both things happened at once. That’s fixable.
Tech internship postings are down about 30% since 2023 (Handshake). Roughly a third of "entry-level" jobs now ask for prior experience.
WHAT WE’LL COVER, LIVE
Four things you'll walk away knowing.
Not career tips. Not generic L&D theory. A working model of why capable hires stall, and what to do about it.
What managers actually grade, and never teach
Judgment. Ownership. Communication. Execution. Reliability. Every review turns on them. So does every client's first impression. You'll leave able to say exactly what's missing instead of "they're not quite ready."
The path to client-facing
What to hand a new hire first, what to hold back, and the signals that tell you they can run a call without you. A sequence you can start using the Monday after.
Your number, calculated live
Three questions in the chat. How many early-career people report to you, how many hours a week go to re-explaining and re-checking, how long until you'd send them into a client meeting alone. We'll do the math on screen.
Where Real Work Ready™ fits
Right now every manager is solving this alone, in the margins of their week, and a hire's ramp depends on which manager they happen to get. Real Work Ready™ teaches early-career hires the behaviors you grade, before they're in the room with your client. It sits alongside the onboarding you already run.
Free · Live · Recording included
WHO IS THIS FOR
Built for the person living with the result.
This is for you if
- You run a sales, client services, consulting, or account team with early-career people on it
- You've said "they're just not ready to be in front of a client" and couldn't fully explain why
- You or your senior people are still checking work that should be able to leave the building on its own
- Your onboarding ends long before your new hires can handle a client alone
- You lead People or L&D and support the managers living with this
You'll walk away with
- The specific behaviors every review, and every client, turns on
- A sequence for getting a new hire client-ready
- A number, in your dollars, for what the ramp costs you
- Language you can use in a leadership meeting
- A way to measure progress you can defend
For HR and L&D: come hear what your managers are dealing with and can't quite say out loud in a budget meeting. That conversation is the most useful part of this session.
If that's your team, this is your 45 minutes.
The behaviors managers grade. The cost of the gap, in your own numbers. And a path out that doesn’t add another thing to your managers’ calendars. Free, live, and the recording goes to everyone who registers.
YOUR HOST
Laura Massetti
Founder & CEO · Real Work Ready™
Laura Massetti is the founder of Real Work Ready™ and creator of The Workplace Performance Model. As a two-time C-level executive, she sat in the calibration rooms where early-career hires were judged, and watched capable people stall on expectations nobody had explained. Real Work Ready™ makes those expectations explicit, so new hires reach client-ready work faster. A New Yorker based in Italy, she leads the Virtual Advisory Board's Italy chapter.
“Every performance review I ever wrote came down to the same handful of behaviors. Nobody had ever named them for the person sitting across from me.”
WHAT MANAGERS ARE SEEING
Managers already built this in.
The framework you'll see on December 3 has been used with early-career professionals and the managers who lead them.
"The shift in their confidence, how they show up in meetings, and the way they communicate has been a gamechanger. We're building RWR directly into our onboarding program going forward."
Mark Kaplan
Engineering leader · enrolled his team
"The practical guidance gave clear, actionable strategies. It boosted their confidence and gave them tools they could immediately apply."
Donna Elfers
Manager · enrolled two team members
"I'd recommend it to both beginners and managers: it makes training clearer, more effective, and more structured, saving time and improving the way people work."
Nicola Busato
Manager · trained his team with RWR
"Instead of saying 'Got it,' I confirm receipt and share when I can return it by. This subtle change adds accountability and clarifies expectations."
Nicole Cappiello
Early career participant
"RWR made me realize how important it is to ask questions and explain clearly. Before, I struggled to understand my supervisor."
Tashfiqul Haq
Early career participant
"Even the smallest rephrasing can bring big changes in how you communicate. There are invisible cues that make a real difference."
Ksenia Rezvanova
Early career participant
Make every dollar you spend on them actually land.
Forty-five minutes. The full picture of why your early-career investment evaporates, and the framework that turns it into measurable performance. Bring your hardest question about development ROI; Laura answers live.
Can't make it live? Register anyway. Everyone gets the recording.