Not the obvious path ft. Alex Costa de Wit and Nina Gualdi

Most people leave university with some kind of blueprint of what’s to come. After business school, Alex Costa de Wit figured the next step would be a job in consulting. Nina Gualdi, on the other hand, would carve a path in design, communications, a master’s and then somehow, figure out the rest. Now, neither blueprint quite survived in the real world, but maybe that was the point. In this episode of The Future Is Human by Mews, host Ella McCann-Tomlin speaks with Alex and Nina about what it means to choose your first job deliberately when everything around you is pulling you toward the obvious path. They talk about trusting instinct before you have much proof, what a degree gives you when your career does not follow a straight line and why “what am I going to learn here?” might be the most valuable question to ask at the start of your career.

There is a lot of pressure wrapped up in a first job.

Not just because it is your first proper step into work, but because it can feel like it’s deciding who you are going to become in the background. The strange thing is, most people are asked to make that decision before they have enough experience to know what they want. In this episode of The Future Is Human by Mews, host Ella McCann-Tomlin speaks with Alex Costa de Wit and Nina Gualdi about choosing a first role when the obvious path does not quite fit.

What You’ll Learn:

Why the obvious career path is not always the right one to follow
How to choose your first job when you are still figuring out what you want
Why “what will I learn here?” can be a more useful question than “what will I be doing?”
What a degree gives you when your career does not follow the field you studied
Why first jobs feel so heavy, and how to think about them with more room and less panic
How graduate programmes can help people grow horizontally, not just climb vertically
Why AI in hiring can help candidates explain the story behind their CV when it is used thoughtfully
How landing somewhere unexpected can still feel right when the learning opportunity is clear

Tune in for a conversation about early-career choice, unexpected paths and why the “right” first job might not be the most obvious one.