For districts
We become your Employer Partnership Office.
Your CTE team should not have to build every employer relationship alone.
Future1 operates as your district's long-term external employer partnership team. We map the region, recruit the partners, own the relationships, coordinate placements and handoffs, follow up after students arrive, and hand you reporting your board can stand behind.
The health check takes about three minutes.
The capacity problem
Most districts do not have an employer problem. They have an ownership problem.
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.
One 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 twelve 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
Three ways districts work with us.
Not advice about employer partnerships. The actual work, carried on a standing cadence, with named ownership at every step.
The partnership journey
Every employer can start somewhere.
Employer engagement does not have to begin with an internship or a job. It begins with the smallest step an employer can actually take.
- 1Speaker
- 2Career exposure
- 3Tour
- 4Job shadow
- 5Project
- 6Internship
- 7Employment
- 8Long-term partner
Strong employer partnerships grow over time.
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.
First 30 days
Landscape mapping, pathway priorities, and access setup.
Days 31 to 60
Employer outreach begins and the first commitments land.
Days 61 to 90
Placements and handoffs start moving through the system and you get your first outcome report.
Ongoing
Meaningful employer growth is a school-year story, not a 30-day one, and we say that up front.
Proof
Outcomes are published here once a partner district approves them.
We would rather show nothing than show a number nobody can stand behind. When results and named references are cleared for publication, they appear in this section.
See where your employer partnership system is getting stuck.
Identify where employer relationships, opportunities, follow-up, capacity, or coordination are breaking down. It takes about three minutes.