Volunteer
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.
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Make material impact on the next generation of students. Volunteering is 12 hour time committment per semester. We support you in creating a rewarding experience.
Onboard
To kick off a semester, we host an onboarding call. During the call we review program details, ensure that volunteers are matched to a student leader, provide content that can be leveraged in the weekly circles. As the semester gets underway, we host a call with the sponsor at our partnering institution to provide any additional context we can.
Career Circles
The magic of the program happens in the weekly career circle calls. Ideally, students are leading and facilitating these circles themselves. In practice, volunteers are often guiding early sessions encouraging students to engage deeper so that they get to the purpose of the week.
Do More
There are many opportunities to give back. Every semester we need substitutes and volunteer support teams to support active circles. In addition, as part of onboarding we will ask you to share your career story to inspire students on their own journey.
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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.