How Employers & Business Mentors Use FutureForward™
When employers work with schools to design job-based exploration activities, they can ensure that the curriculum and hand-on experiences provide students with a more accurate understanding of the necessary skills and training needed to fill future crucial roles. Students get a better understanding of what jobs entail, as well as further their increasingly important soft skills like communication, active listening, self-confidence, and time management. Businesses who join the FutureForward™ directory take an active role in impacting skilled-training and education decisions that help graduates enter the workforce quicker. Employers have complete control to adjust the types of opportunities your business offers in the directory, your current level of participation, and FutureForward™ program contact at your place of business, at any time!
How Employers & Business Mentors Use FutureForward™
- Join the directory and create a robust profile, offering as many experiential learning opportunities at your business as possible.
- Start relationships with potential employees by offering internships and job shadowing to students in key growth areas of your business.
- Guide students toward the training and education you desire your new hires to have while mentoring them or holding mock interviews.
- Educate on lesser known jobs and what they entail as you offer tours and show students around your facility.
- Help students consider local job opportunities by offering to speak to classrooms about your industry.
- Offer hands-on learning like internships and apprenticeships that can turn into permanent employment benefiting you and the student.
Can’t currently commit your business to providing a hands-on learning opportunity? Contact us to make a material donation to benefit students & schools participating in FutureForward™.
