24
Hours of uninterrupted transformation
One day. Your whole career.
Panthea is London's home for graduates who are done waiting and ready to move. Every 24 hours we run is a full career sprint: CVs, interviews, networks, mindset, built around a community that keeps growing long after the clock runs out.
What Panthea is
Not a course. Not a seminar. A movement.
Every year, tens of thousands of London graduates leave university full of ambition and walk straight into a wall. The CV doesn't land. The interview feels alien. The job that was supposed to follow three years of hard work simply doesn't materialise.
Panthea was built to close that gap, not through another workshop or webinar, but through an immersive, high-energy, community-first experience that transforms how young people see themselves professionally, permanently.
The 24-hour marathon is our format. The community it builds is our purpose.
100
Graduates per cohort, intimate by design
£0
Cost to attend, funded by partnerships
∞
Community, the marathon never really ends
The Programme
Everything that happens in the 24 hours.
Every session produces a tangible output: a rewritten CV, a recorded mock interview, a salary script, a LinkedIn worth looking at. You leave with work done, not just inspiration.
8AM
Ignite
Welcome + Opening Keynote
Doors open. Coaches set the tone: this is not passive. You will be seen, challenged and changed.
9AM
Build
CV Clinic - Live Rewrites
Coaches on rotation. Every attendee gets a 1:1 CV review. Not feedback, a full rewrite. You leave with a document that gets read.
11AM
Build
The Confidence Lab
Body language. Personal brand audit. LinkedIn overhaul, live. The unwritten rules of how to present yourself, written out for good.
1PM
Fuel
Partner Break + Informal Mingle
Refreshments and recruiters from partner companies in the room, not on a panel, just there. The most useful networking you've never been forced to do.
2PM
Perform
Interview Dojo - Round Robin
Structured mock interviews. Real questions. Timed responses. Immediate feedback. This is where the transformation happens, and it's uncomfortable on purpose.
4PM
Perform
The Hot Seat
Volunteers step up for a live interview in front of the full cohort. Crowd energy. Coach critique in real time. The bravest session of the day.
4:30PM
Creative
The Cover Letter Bar
Coaches brew personalised cover letters on demand. Order by job title. Ready in 10 minutes. The most satisfying queue you've ever stood in.
5PM
Creative
The Rejection Wall
Every attendee pins their most painful rejection anonymously. Coaches reframe each one live. Turns the thing no one talks about into the most useful hour of the day.
6PM
Connect
Speed Networking - Recruiter Edition
Four-minute structured rounds with partner company recruiters. Not a mixer. A machine. Every conversation has a structure, purpose, and follow-up built in.
6:30PM
Creative
Salary Negotiation Game
Gamified negotiation in front of the room. You go against a coach, live. Highest offer wins. Everyone walks away knowing how to ask for what they're worth.
7PM
Inspire
Founder Speed Talks
Three founders. Five minutes each. No decks. Just the truth about what they look for when hiring, and what they wish they'd known.
8PM
Culture
The Social - Music, Merch, Polaroids
The formal programme ends. The informal one begins. DJ, photo wall, limited merch drop. This is where the community actually forms.
12AM
The Overnight
Overnight Hustle - For the Brave
Midnight to 6AM. Small groups. Deep-dives into freelancing, personal brand, and your first 90 days in a new role. For those not ready to stop.
8AM
Close
Sunrise Session + Community Onboarding
The 24 hours ends. The community begins. Every attendee joins the Panthea network: alumni access, partner companies, coaching, and the next cohort as a mentor.
Beyond the Marathon
The event ends. The community doesn't.
The 24 hours is the door. What's on the other side is what we're actually building: a living network of London graduates who found their footing through Panthea and now help the next cohort do the same.
Every alumni becomes a mentor. Every hire made through Panthea becomes proof. Every company that partners gets access to the most motivated, best-prepared graduate talent in London.
This is how we grow. Not through advertising. Through results.
01
The Cohort
100 graduates every marathon. Intimate enough to form real connections. Every cohort stays connected to the one that follows.
02
The Alumni
Every graduate who comes through Panthea joins the permanent community: job boards, ongoing coaching, and peer mentoring, for life.
03
The Partners
Companies who sponsor get direct access to the community, for recruitment, brand awareness, and authentic connection with young talent no job board can replicate.
04
The Ikigai
Rooted in our founding philosophy: the convergence of passion, mission, vocation and profession. We call it Ikigai. The marathon is how graduates find theirs.
Free for graduates. Funded by those who need them.
Three revenue streams, each one perfectly aligned with the outcomes of our community.
Revenue One
Brand Partnerships & Sponsorships
Companies sponsor sessions, provide the venue, or co-brand the event. In return: 100 highly engaged, rigorously prepared graduates in their space for 24 hours, authentic brand association that Gen Z actually notices.
Revenue Two
Collaborations
Co-created products, limited-edition drops, content series, and cultural moments built with partner brands. UGC-first, community-powered, and impossible to fake. Designed to travel, on social, in press, in memory.
Revenue Three
Placement Commission
When a Panthea graduate is hired by a partner company, directly or through a marathon connection, Panthea takes a commission. No upfront fee. Pure performance. Our incentive is identical to the graduate's.
The Panthea Ethos
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Exercise Loving Kindness
Deliberately practice the cultivation of positive emotions towards yourself and others. A technique that has been shown to promote mental and physical well-being, leading to positive changes in your brain and nervous system, improving your emotional regulation and resilience.
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Strive For Growth and Grow Together
Continuously seek out challenges, embrace learning opportunities, nurture, and guide all those around you. Your personal growth is interdependent with the growth of others and your progress is amplified through your collective efforts.
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Find Your Ikigai
Discover your unique purpose in life. Explore your passions and values and align them to whatever it is you’re doing in your personal and professional life. Experience that deep sense of meaning and let that be the foundation for living a fulfilling and purposeful existence.
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Awaken The Fires Within
Unleash the inner potential and power that lies within you by tapping into your strengths and igniting a burning desire to achieve your aspirations. Fuel your determination and overcome obstacles with sheer resilience.
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Fight Familiarisation and Seek Fresh Experiences
Break away from your comfort zone and openly explore new opportunities. Resist the temptation to fall into a routine and proactively stimulate your mind and body. This mindset will deepen your creativity, enhance your curiosity, and discover a new version of you that you didn’t know existed.
Join the Community
Tell us your biggest career blocker. We'll fix it.
Apply for the next Panthea 24-hour marathon. 100 spots. Completely free. The most honest answer to the question below gets priority.
Free to attend. London-based graduates and recent grads welcome. No CV needed, you're building that with us on the day. Come as you are.
Founded by
Dr. Maryam Saif
Panthea was born from a simple observation: the people entering the workforce are extraordinary, and the systems meant to support them are not. Working with managers and leaders across industries, I saw how the norms set for young people, the gatekeeping, the opacity, the grind were quietly diminishing the potential of an entire generation.
I built Panthea to change that. Not through corporate training, but through direct investment in young people themselves, the tools, the confidence, the clarity, and the community to navigate a working world that wasn't designed with them in mind. The 24-hour marathon is the fullest expression of that mission. You don't leave inspired. You leave employed.