EMPLOYERS

Do you want to help your community and invest in your future success?

Our students are ready to join you.

River East’s School to Career Partnerships have valuable community partners who support our program by providing work-based learning opportunities for our qualified students.

Our students are ready to join you. It is a win-win situation for the business and the student.

Our past work-based learning collaborations include the fields of medical, legal, education, service, trade, retail, and many more.

Three firefighters in uniform standing in front of a fire truck inside a fire station.

River East School to Career provides benefits to employers/mentors

  • Increase your pool of qualified applicants

  • Make a positive contribution to the community

  • Have a role in training and shaping the future workforce

  • Acquire value from student work

  • Help make schools more responsive to today’s needs in business and industry

  • Assist students in developing workplace readiness skills

  • Foster the next generation of employees

  • Know that you are making a difference in a student’s life as well as your community

Interested in collaborating with us?
Have questions?

Please contact Amy Scribner

ascribner@rivereaststc.org

(413) 283-5051

Police Sergeant Sean Paine talks about his experience as a mentor

  • Mentors are asked to:
    • Help ensure that their Mentee has a successful Work-Based Learning opportunity
    • Act as a confidential and trusted advisor
    • Be a teacher and coach to the Mentee
    • Serve as a resource and repository of information
    • Help the Mentee problem-solve challenges and questions that may arise including performance pitfalls
    • Assist in purposeful networking
    • Provide thought and guidance on leading through change

  • You will grow as a person and a coach. You will build a relationship with a student who is looking to learn from you. You will also be helping to guide the next generation of leaders, retain talent, and preserve a positive work culture.

  • The Career Facilitator from each of our schools will meet with students to discuss their career goals. That information will then be evaluated and matched with a career. Other factors taken into consideration are relevant backgrounds and interests. The Career Facilitator will then speak with the mentor about the student and the Work-based Learning opportunity. You will have an opportunity to meet with the student. Mentors or organizations may have more than one mentee if they wish.

  • There is no cost associated with being a mentor, but the time you give to a student is priceless!

  • Students who participate in a Work-Based Learning opportunity are high school seniors.

  • A Work-Based Learning opportunity runs for a school semester (usually about ninety minutes a day, 4-5 days a week).

  • Mentors are responsible for evaluating the mentee’s performance twice during the Work-Based Learning opportunity. The Career Facilitator will provide the evaluation form.

  • No. Students are covered under the school districts’ insurance policy.

  • Yes. The Career Facilitator will submit a CORI on the mentor or employer.

  • Of course! The mentor/mentee relationships continue based on the mutual interest of both parties. Officially, the program winds down after the student graduates, but some of the best mentoring relationships continue well past the end of any formal organizationally-sanctioned timeframe.

  • You can still be part of our mission, without being part of the formal mentoring program. You can volunteer to be a career speaker, be an interviewer at our student mock interviews, a vendor at a career fair, help coordinate a field trip to your company, and share this initiative with others.