Partner
Our Four-Star Program helps students explore career choices. We partner students with a mentor for a six-week program that encourages students to exercise agency in their career. Our goal is to activate student's agency, helping spark their ownership of their career. By helping one student at a time, we hope to solve the underemployment problem of new college graduates.
Work Together
Join our mission to solve underemployment for recent college graduates. We'll work with you to build the structure, recruit volunteers, and fund circles. The program can scale from one class to the entire school. It provides your alumni network an easy way to engage with the your institution building connections that allow for growth.
Form Career Circle Groups
We pair mentors with groups of six students, called career circles. We count on the institutions we partner with to create the career circles. In order to map to volunteers, we just need to know the time the circle wants to meet each week and the name of a student leader we can coordinate with.
Partner with Communications
We want to create environment where each students gains the most they can out of the circles. In coordination with our partnered institutions, we will introduce the program in a 30-minute meeting. Student Leaders and Mentors will further establish norms when they meet one on one.
Review and Iterate
As part of the program, we reach out to students via pulse surveys and a survey at the end of the semester. We share the results with institutions we partner with so that we can make changes in order to drive better outcomes.
Feedback
What Students are Saying
While our meetings at 1 p.m. on Mondays made my schedule a bit busier, they always left me feeling empowered because each lesson was meaningful. The skills and insights I gained prepared me for my professional life and gave me valuable tips for succeeding in interviews.
My mentor shared valuable advice that is relevant for preparing my group and I for a future career, life after college, and how to navigate this last year of undergrad. The steps that my mentor took during our meetings includes relating each week's topic to real world topics and previous meetings, connecting with each other on LinkedIn, and so on. These meetings resulted in a new professional connection and advice that I will remember throughout life.
One positive realization I came to at the end of our meeting is that if you never try, you will never know. It is better to try something new in a career or in life than regret it later on. This experience has been so rewarding and I gained many new friends as well as a wonderful mentor through this experience.