Business Engagement

Classroom to Career strengthens opportunities for you to connect with our students to raise their awareness and prepare them for your company's future employment needs.

The key to our success is the direct involvement of your business.
It's our intention to develop opportunities for our students to get direct involvement with our businesses and community, both in and out of the classroom.

Classroom to Career Business Opportunities

Classroom to Career (C2C) is designed to connect Appleton Area School District students with career options that align with their interests, abilities, and personal goals. C2C works best when our students have first-hand opportunities to see and experience career options.

Students benefit when they can interact with workplace personnel both in the classroom and at the workplace to see and hear about careers of interest to them, and also to learn directly from people in these career fields.

Student experiences can vary in level of business engagement. They can benefit from people coming into the classroom or career launch studios to interact with students. More in-depth opportunities for students include workplace experiences like job shadowing, mentoring, or internships. 

Reasons your business should be involved

• The labor gap in our region will reach 50,000 jobs by 2024

• The Fox Valley area is challenged to retain our graduates to fill the many positions being vacated by the continuing retirements of baby boomers

• Companies are recruiting from longer distances and at increased costs to find professional and technically skilled workers

• The cost of finding and bringing in talent from outside the local area is higher than finding local talent

• A majority of your employees have and will come from the Fox Valley area

• Competition for talent will increase as businesses continue to grow

• Businesses with strong connections with schools create awareness and relationships with students who are likely to become future employees

The active engagement of business in Classroom to Career helps create win-win opportunities for businesses, students, teachers, and the community.

Benefits for your business

• Positive positioning of your company with the school/students

• Connecting directly with teachers and students

• Community name recognition and goodwill; positive PR

• Assessment and identification of students for potential long-term employment

• Increased employee loyalty

• Influence the shaping of curricula to meet your company’s employment needs

• Direct line of communication to teachers and parents of students for recruitment

• Employees become role models and/or mentors for students