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For Employers & Industry Partners
Inspire WI partners with businesses across Wisconsin to build a strong, sustainable talent pipeline, starting with students. Whether you're an existing partner or considering how your company can get involved, this is your one-stop hub to see the impact of your partnership and explore new opportunities to inspire the next generation of workers.
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Why Partner with Inspire WI?
Workforce development starts with awareness. Students can't dream of what they don't know exists. Inspire WI connects you directly with students, educators, and communities through dynamic, hands-on experiences that spotlight your industry, your people, and your impact.
What You Can Do as a Partner
Inspire WI helps make employer engagement simple, impactful, and scalable. Here are just a few ways your business can get involved:
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Career Service Options
Our career exploration programs connect your company with future talent through authentic, hands-on experiences. From workplace tours and career fairs to guest speakers, these opportunities showcase your industry, inspire students, and strengthen your talent pipeline, while advancing your goals for youth engagement and community impact.
Guest Speaker
Share your industry expertise with students by visiting classrooms, either in person or virtually. We help you prepare for success by guiding audience engagement, presentation topics, and connections to classroom learning. Your participation gives students insight into real-world careers while positioning your business as a community leader.
Company Showcase Tour
Open your doors to students to highlight your company culture, operations, and career opportunities. Our team works with you to organize a tour that aligns with the visiting student group’s interests and coursework, helping you emphasize the most meaningful workplace experiences and roles.
Industry Immersion
Host students for hands-on, interactive learning experiences that showcase your business and high-demand careers. Using our background in education, we help design immersive activities and examples that connect to classroom learning and engage students in ways that highlight your industry and workforce needs.
Professional Skill Development Service Options
Our career exploration opportunities expose students to a wide range of industries, roles, and real-world workplaces. These experiences are designed to help students discover what’s out there, ask questions, and see how their interests and skills can align with different careers. Whether through company tours, career fairs, or guest speakers, these events create powerful moments of career awareness and inspiration.
Mock Interviews
Help students practice real-world interview skills while gaining early exposure to your industry and company culture. We support you by providing background on student participants and suggested questions to make the experience authentic and engaging. Your feedback builds student confidence and communication skills while positioning your business as a leader in workforce readiness. Many partners have even invited standout students to apply for open positions within their organizations.
Pathway Pop-Up
Engage with small groups of students in interactive, school-based sessions focused on leadership, professionalism, and career pathways. We collaborate with you to design an activity that brings your career to life and connects directly to student learning. These sessions are a great way to inspire future talent and highlight the skills and opportunities within your industry.
Resume Reviews
Provide personalized guidance to students as they refine resumes that highlight their skills, experiences, and potential. Your participation helps students present themselves confidently while allowing you to connect with emerging talent in your community.
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Job Shadows
Host a student for a capstone experience that allows them to observe your workplace and see professionals in action. These immersive opportunities connect classroom learning to real-world applications while showcasing your industry and workforce needs. We help coordinate logistics, ensure students are well-prepared and professional, and provide guidance to make the experience meaningful for both the student and your team.
Engagement & Training Service Options
We believe when educators understand today’s workforce, students benefit. That’s why we offer unique opportunities, like in-service tours, externships, and pathway pop-ups, designed to help educators gain firsthand insight into local industries. These experiences equip teachers with relevant, real-world knowledge they can bring back into the classroom to make instruction more engaging and aligned with career readiness goals.
Teacher In-Service Industry
Host educators at your business during scheduled in-service days to share firsthand insights into workforce needs, emerging skills, and industry trends. We coordinate the experience to ensure alignment with classroom learning, helping you strengthen educator partnerships and influence how future talent prepares for your field.
Summer Teacher Externships
Partner with teachers as they work alongside your team to gain hands-on industry experience. We assist with planning and structure so that educators return to their classrooms equipped to connect real-world applications to what students are learning, helping you build awareness of your industry and workforce opportunities.
Educator Pathway Pop-Up
Engage with educators in small-group sessions designed to share your business perspective and workforce insights. We help tailor the discussion to highlight your industry’s needs and career pathways, ensuring educators leave inspired to integrate your expertise into their teaching and student guidance.
Inspire the Future Workforce
Join us in shaping the next generation of talent. Partnering with Inspire WI connects your business to students, schools, and community programs that build real-world career skills and strengthen our regional workforce. Your involvement helps students discover their future, and positions your business as a leader in growing Wisconsin’s talent pipeline.
Experience Effortless Engagement with Our Comprehensive Support
We handle the details so you can focus on what matters most: sharing your expertise and connecting with future talent. Our team provides start-to-finish support that makes participation seamless, professional, and impactful.
Pre-Event Support
We take care of everything before your event by aligning your goals, creating a customized plan, and managing all promotions to targeted student and educator audiences. Our team designs professional event materials, showcases your business on our website, and manages registration and communications so you can simply show up and shine.
Event Day Support
On event day, we handle the logistics so you can focus on engagement. Inspire WI staff welcomes participants, manages check-in, provides name tags and seating as needed, facilitates the full experience, and ensures students leave with meaningful takeaways and action steps.
Post-Event Support
After the event, we gather feedback, compile highlights, and share the impact of your participation. We promote your event on social media, provide a registration and outcomes report, and help you follow up with attendees to continue building relationships and brand visibility.
Proven Success
School - Business Partnerships
Inspire WI bridges the gap between education and industry by delivering meaningful, results-driven experiences that connect students to real-world careers. Our growing network of partners and schools is making a measurable impact across our region of Wisconsin.
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What Are Other Companies Saying About Inspire WI?
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