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    Bring a group. See them become ready.

    Your students or members take five steps toward a first job or a first venture. You see each person move and you know who needs a hand. When someone is ready, you put them in front of an employer or an accelerator. What they made goes with them.

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    A teacher standing beside a table where students are working through a plan on paper together

    Ready and seen

    You

    A class, a community group, a job club, an after-school cohort. One invitation, and every one of them is on the same path, in one place you can see.

    1. 1Bring a groupA class, a community group, a job club, an after-school cohort. One invitation, and every one of them is on the same path, in one place you can see.
    2. 2Set their datesGive each step a date. Each person's clock starts the day they join, so someone who arrives in week three starts fresh, not behind.
    3. 3They build, you see it happenDiscover, ideate, pitch, document, interview. You hear when a step lands and when a date slips. A date is a nudge, never a lock.
    4. 4The ready ones meet employers and acceleratorsWhen someone has done the work, you introduce them to an employer who is hiring or an accelerator taking founders. They choose what to show, and it is theirs.
    5. 5Outcomes you can showWho started, what they made, who was introduced and where they went. It builds as the work is done, so the story is ready when you are.
    6. Ready and seen

    Which path is right for your members.

    Some of your members want a job. Some want to start something. Most are not sure yet. The work is the same five steps either way, and what each step produces is what changes. Switch the pathway to see it.

    The same five steps, on either pathway

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    1. 1

      Discover

      A clear view of their strengths

      What they are good at and what they care about, pointed at real kinds of work.

    2. 2

      Ideate

      A career path they chose

      One direction, chosen and explained in their own words.

    3. 3

      Pitch

      A pitch an employer can watch

      A short recorded case for the role, in their own voice.

    4. 4

      Document

      A resume and portfolio

      Built from the work they have already done, so the first draft is already there.

    5. 5

      Interview

      An interview with a hiring team

      Practised first, then answered for a real employer.

    One platform, two pathways. A member can move from one to the other, and you see both in the same group.

    How you would know who needs you.

    You set a date for each step. After that the group shows you where everyone is, without a spreadsheet and without asking around.

    Dates nudge. They never block. Nothing locks.

    Sample group, for illustration. Shown as if today were 21 Oct.

    Member1. Discover2. Ideate3. Pitch4. Document5. InterviewWhere they stand
    • A.M.

      Employment, joined 8 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 15 Sep
      2. IdeateIdeate: Done, due 29 Sep
      3. PitchPitch: Done, due 13 Oct
      4. DocumentDocument: Done, due 27 Oct
      5. InterviewInterview: Done, due 10 Nov

      Ready to be introduced

    • J.T.

      Entrepreneurship, joined 8 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 15 Sep
      2. IdeateIdeate: Done, due 29 Sep
      3. PitchPitch: Past its date, due 13 Oct
      4. DocumentDocument: Coming up, due 27 Oct
      5. InterviewInterview: Coming up, due 10 Nov

      Pitch was due 13 Oct

    • R.K.

      Employment, joined 8 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 15 Sep
      2. IdeateIdeate: Done, due 29 Sep
      3. PitchPitch: Done, due 13 Oct
      4. DocumentDocument: Done, due 27 Oct
      5. InterviewInterview: Coming up, due 10 Nov

      On their dates

    • S.O.

      Entrepreneurship, joined 15 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 22 Sep
      2. IdeateIdeate: Done, due 6 Oct
      3. PitchPitch: Done, due 20 Oct
      4. DocumentDocument: Coming up, due 3 Nov
      5. InterviewInterview: Coming up, due 17 Nov

      On their dates

    • D.L.

      Employment, joined 15 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 22 Sep
      2. IdeateIdeate: Past its date, due 6 Oct
      3. PitchPitch: Past its date, due 20 Oct
      4. DocumentDocument: Coming up, due 3 Nov
      5. InterviewInterview: Coming up, due 17 Nov

      Ideate was due 6 Oct, Pitch was due 20 Oct

    • N.B.

      Entrepreneurship, joined 29 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 6 Oct
      2. IdeateIdeate: Done, due 20 Oct
      3. PitchPitch: Coming up, due 3 Nov
      4. DocumentDocument: Coming up, due 17 Nov
      5. InterviewInterview: Coming up, due 1 Dec

      On their dates

    • T.W.

      Employment, joined 15 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 22 Sep
      2. IdeateIdeate: Past its date, due 6 Oct
      3. PitchPitch: Done, due 20 Oct
      4. DocumentDocument: Coming up, due 3 Nov
      5. InterviewInterview: Coming up, due 17 Nov

      Ideate was due 6 Oct

    • L.C.

      Employment, joined 29 Sep

      1. DiscoverDiscover: Done, due 6 Oct
      2. IdeateIdeate: Done, due 20 Oct
      3. PitchPitch: Coming up, due 3 Nov
      4. DocumentDocument: Coming up, due 17 Nov
      5. InterviewInterview: Coming up, due 1 Dec

      On their dates

    Each member’s dates count from the day they joined, which is why the same step falls on different days. You are told when a step lands and when a date slips.

    • Done
    • Coming up
    • Past its date

    What you can hand your board or your funder.

    A grant report usually means chasing people for stories after the fact. Here the story builds as the work is done, so most of the report is ready before you sit down to write it.

    • Who started

      Every student or member who joined, and the day they did.

    • What they made

      A path or an idea, a pitch, documents, an interview. Real work, not attendance.

    • Who was introduced

      The members you put in front of an employer or an accelerator.

    • Where they went

      A first job, a first venture, or the next step they chose for themselves.

    A new school teaching kitchen: three stainless steel serving counters in front of two combination ovens and a wall of refrigeration.

    Education & Districts

    A Kitchen Comes Back Online

    A school within a large district is bringing a decommissioned teaching kitchen back to life, and engaging us to get its youth ready for the work that comes with it. Career preparation, food-service readiness, and a facility with a future, built together.

    Your first ninety days.

    1. Days 1 to 30Bring your first group and set their dates
    2. Days 31 to 60Know where every member stands, as it happens
    3. Days 61 to 90Introduce the ready ones to an employer or an accelerator

    Bring your first group.

    Tell us who you serve and roughly how many. We will show you week one, how you would know who needs you, and what you could hand your board at the end of a term.

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    Too many people finish school able and unseen by the people who can say yes. We are here to end unemployment at the start of working life, one connected region at a time.

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