The Secret to Getting Hired: How Julia Haber is Opening Doors for Gen Z

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff

Society & Culture

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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When the world changes, sometimes the best thing you can do is change with it. This week on SUPERWOMEN, Julia Haber, co-founder and CEO of Home From College, shares how she had to pivot her business when the pandemic made everything she had built obsolete. What started as a platform designed for in-person experiences transformed into a digital-first solution to help Gen Z launch their careers. Julia discusses the challenges of pivoting a business, the decisions she had to make to adapt, and the lessons learned about staying flexible and creating new opportunities in our rapidly changing world. Episode Guide: (00:00) Meet Julia Haber, co-founder and CEO of Home From College (02:10) Eleven internships, a college agency, and early burnout (06:24) COVID hits, and Home From College is born (07:43) Reframing failure and managing anxiety (12:13) The co-founder who became Julia’s husband (16:16) Turning a simple landing page into a real tech platform (17:48) What Gen Z job seekers want from work (21:02) Helping brands work with Gen Z without losing trust (25:52) What founders misunderstand about VC vs. revenue growth (29:44) Real adaptability is having more than one plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We ended up bringing in a technical advisor to evaluate the work that this person had done after we had pretty much depleted our bank account.
0:06.5	And the person ended up just absolutely ghosting.
0:09.3	Today's guest is Julia Haber, the co-founder of Home from College.
0:13.9	I think if you're looking for the next best place to find your new job, to get experience and actually have hands on touching a business before you graduated.
0:23.9	This is the place to go.
0:25.6	I had no idea what I was doing and I would travel to the middle of nowhere.
0:30.0	Stay in like sketchy motels by myself as like a 22 year old trying to negotiate permits.
0:35.9	If you haven't found a way to make money or heat around your
0:38.5	product, you're not going to have the same success story or outcome, especially these days.
0:42.6	If you walk in and say, I have something that is going to work, whether you're part of this or not,
0:47.8	changes the whole narrative. Raising money is not a metric of success necessarily. It's just
0:53.1	a great story to tell in tech crunch sometimes.
0:56.0	What would you say to people listening who are Gen Z,
0:59.0	who have certain boundaries they want to protect?
1:01.0	Genzi grew up in the craziest time ever between 9-11,
1:05.0	political climate, being impacted by recessions,
1:08.0	and then also COVID.
1:10.0	So this sense of security is not the same.
1:21.1	I'm Rebecca Minkoff and this is Super Women.
1:24.1	Each week, inspiring women are interviewed to uncover the unexpected journeys, the challenges,
1:29.2	and the unwavering spirit that makes them powerful. Get ready to be motivated by stories of
1:34.8	resilience and discover the keys to unlocking your own potential. I'm so happy you have the
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