Don’t settle.

Connect with a future you love.

Overview

GConnection’s mission is to connect the world’s early career networks in an authentic, inclusive, and meaningful way through innovative platforms. We want to redefine how early career networks discover and engage with opportunities, empowering thousands of students and recent graduates to not settle and connect with a future they love, no matter where they studied or who they know.

Why GConnection matters?

Redefining Early Career

GConnection moves beyond outdated, search-driven job boards to a dynamic, match-driven engine. The focus is on creating connections at scale.

Building a Thriving Early Career Ecosystem

GConnection prioritizes creating a network for early career professionals, where meaningful, trusted connections drive engagement.

Prioritizing Authenticity

GConnection emphasizes authentic and meaningful interactions, moving away from transactional relationships.

Impactful Career Discovery

By focusing on individuality and inclusivity, GConnection empowers users to build their own networks and access relevant opportunities. It addresses challenges traditional career services fail to meet, such as fragmented systems and limited personalization.

Tackling Systemic Barriers

GConnection fosters inclusivity by ensuring access to opportunities for all, regardless of privilege or connections.

Our beliefs

We believe in connecting with what you love. That is as true for career as it is for romance. Your career is going to fill a large amount of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to love what you do. Get excited about building a future you love and focus on what you’re capable of achieving next, not on what you’ve done. Take chances and don’t settle! It requires a beginner's mind, patience, resilience, and persistence.
We believe every student and recent graduate should have the opportunity to connect with a future they love, no matter who they know or whey they studied.
We believe that your early career is unique. Success comes from being true to who you are, not from selling an image or superficial interactions. Focus on building authentic, inclusive connections where you give and receive.
We believe in encouraging collaboration and support, not rivalry. True success comes from building a strong, inclusive network where everyone lifts each other up, rather than focusing on outdoing others.
We believe that the traditional job board model is no longer enough. We want a dynamic, connected ecosystem that values authentic, meaningful connections and personalized career discovery.

Our principles

Be missionary

We are passionate about building innovative platforms that connect early career networks. We obsess over this and keep inventing and reinventing.
Think big

Limiting your vision leads to limited outcomes. We set ambitious goals and articulate a clear, bold vision that drives impactful results.
Make it happen

Pace is essential. Progress fuels learning, so we stay active and move forward without hesitation. Rather than waiting, we plan ahead and take initiative.

Our history

While studying at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Gianluca Corti witnessed the challenges his friend faced in the job market, including repeated rejections and being ghosted by employers. Motivated by the impact these experiences had on his friend's self-confidence and mental health, Gianluca was determined to make a positive change. As vice president of a student association, he organized a major recruitment event, creating a thriving ecosystem of students, alumni, student associations, universities, and employers.

After successfully managing the event and facing his own rejections when applying for leadership roles, Gianluca, along with his friend Andre Marcatto, decided to launch their own organization focused on career events. They later recruited Rebecca Jacob, and GConnection was born as a student association. The success of GNext, a collaborative event with student associations from leading European schools, underscored the potential of their vision. Realizing that establishing a company was more feasible than an association, they transitioned GConnection into a startup and recruited Andres Salvi as their former Head of Tech.

Founded in 2021, GConnection aims to empower early talent to not settle and connect with a future they love.