For districts
Your employers did not quit. Nobody called them back.
Your employer partnerships belong to 1 person. When that person gets busy, the next ask never goes out. Future1 runs The 5 Asks for your district and handles what comes next. First partner in 30 days. 5 in 90. Your staff keeps teaching.
The ownership problem
Ask your team 1 question. Who called last September's employers back?
Employers are usually willing. What is missing is a person and a system that carry the relationship between the first yes and the student's first day.
1 person is the whole system
The relationships live in a single inbox, phone, and memory. When that person is out, on leave, or moves on, the partnership network goes with them.
Warm partners go quiet
An employer says yes in September and hears nothing until April. By then the champion inside the company has moved and the goodwill has cooled.
The handoff is where students disappear
A seat exists, a student is interested, and nobody owns the steps in between. The opportunity expires without anyone deciding to let it go.
Reporting season becomes reconstruction
Participation and placement numbers get rebuilt from memory in the spring because nothing captured them as they happened.
What Future1 does
Your team keeps teaching. We make the calls.
Not advice about employer partnerships. The actual work, carried on a standing cadence, with named ownership at every step.
Employer Partnership Management
- Employer outreach and recruitment.
- Calls, emails, and follow up handled for you.
- The partnership system and reporting behind it.
The 5 Asks
Why the second ask matters more than the first.
Each ask is small enough to say yes to. Each yes earns the next one. Skip an ask, or skip the 1 thing most programs forget after every yes, and employers go quiet.
Ask 1
The First Ask
20 minutes
Career Awareness
Ask 2
Career Awareness
Ask 3
Career Exploration
Ask 4
Career Preparation
Ask 5
Placement
Internship, apprenticeship, work experience, or a job
Career Training and Placement
Asks 2 to 5 are where most programs lose employers. Ask me about the gap in a 20 minute call.
Book a 20 minute callEvery ask counts toward your first partner in 30 days and 5 in 90.
What working together looks like
Clear ownership on both sides, written down before anything starts.
Your district is responsible for
- Pathways, students, instruction, and local relationships.
- Instruction and student readiness inside the building.
- The student record, which stays under district control.
- Final decisions on which employers and formats fit the program.
Future1 handles
- Outreach, coordination, follow-up, tracking, and reporting.
- Employer mapping and recruitment across the region.
- Placement coordination and the handoff steps between a yes and a start date.
- Evidence captured as it happens, so reporting is records rather than estimates.
Days 1 to 30
The First Ask
We match your pathways to local employers, send the first asks, and book your first partner.
Days 31 to 60
The next ask
Every partner who said yes moves up a step, on a date, so nobody goes quiet.
Days 61 to 90
5 partners
5 partners booked on dates, every step logged for Perkins V, and a report your board can read.
