Inspire Walworth County

Every student, future ready.

Inspire has been designed with one goal in mind: to help students plan their futures. By connecting students with hands-on, career-based learning experiences (CBLEs), Inspire helps students apply their academic and technical skills in the real world of work while also developing essential workplace skills critical to their future employment success.

As a business member, you are not trained experts on how to teach or engage with students—that’s where we come in!

With Inspire, employers can:

• Offer a wide range of career-based learning experiences (CBLEs) for students and teachers
• Directly mentor and help prepare students for careers that align to their interests or expose them to careers they didn’t know existed
• Contribute to curriculum, ensuring that education looks and feels like the job
• Communicate their career/employment needs

Inspire accomplishes this through:

Career-Connected Learning Model

Leveraging business and education partnerships to coordinate Career-Based Learning Experiences (CBLEs) for teachers and students

• Opportunities Planner: driven by member businesses, this is a online platform designed for teachers and students to utilize for career exploration
• Wisconsin Job Board: Sponsored and used by Walworth County schools (and beyond), this is a FREE resource for businesses and an excellent space to publicize job opportunities and connect with local youth.
  

Providing career-based learning opportunities is mutually beneficial to schools and companies:



• INVESTING IN THE FUTURE WORKFORCE. Working with students will help expand the pool of job applicants and their skill sets in the future. Career-Based Learning Experiences are an early recruitment strategy.
• INFORMING THE FUTURE WORKFORCE about the occupations businesses employ and the skills businesses look for when hiring.
• CONTRIBUTING TO K-12 CURRICULUM by hosting educators at your work site and partnering with educators on the development of skills-based career pathways.
• IMPROVING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT. Employee knowledge of roles and responsibilities are reviewed and reinforced and mentoring students can be rewarding for employees.
• CREATING POSITIVE COMMUNITY VISIBILITY FOR YOUR COMPANY by providing a visible example of your partnership with schools and students to maintain good community relations, and providing an opportunity to promote the company as an employer of choice. In addition, people will gain awareness of what your company does. Oftentimes people know the name of a company, but not the breadth of what happens on the inside.
• EXPOSING STUDENTS TO WORK CULTURE AND TEAMWORK. Students discover and learn about the working world and begin to understand company culture and what it means to work as a team.

Source: Workforce Development Pathway Study Millipore Sigma

Only 11% of employers feel new graduates are ready for work. Bridge the gap between classwork and the work world.

Examples of CBLEs available through Inspire:



• Site tours
• Internships
• Youth apprenticeships
• Job shadows
• Teacher externships
• Classroom speakers
• Mock interviews
• Career fairs

You're in good company! Join our partner businesses in supporting Inspire Walworth County:

0-10 Employees
$250
WCEDA Member Pricing: $125

11-25 Employees
$375

WCEDA Member Pricing: $195

26-50 Employees
$500
WCEDA Member Pricing: $275

51+ Employees
$750
WCEDA Member Pricing: $375