Become a Business Partner
A company can become a business partner through many different avenues. By becoming a guest speaker, facilitating a project, hosting a site visit, being a mentor or even hosting an unpaid internship.
We would welcome the opportunity to work with you and discuss how we may partner with your company. Just complete the form below to brainstorm on a partnership opportunites.
Guest Speakers
Professional guests are an integral part of the Northland CAPS program. Classroom instruction will be project-based with minimal lectures and textbook use. Therefore, input and involvement from industry professionals is key to success.
Mentors
Research shows that mentors have much to gain from a mentoring relationship. Mentoring provides the opportunity to acquire a fresh perspective on professional issues or person issues such as balancing work and life outside of work. As much or as little time as you are able to give is appreciated. A minimum of one email correspondence each week is the guideline for time commitment.
Site Visits
Our business partners can provide a site visit with a large group or a handful of students studying your career channel or industry.
REAL WORLD PROJECTS are the foundation of our curriculum for the fall semester. Northland CAPS project work is facilitated by our instructors through relevant problem-based projects provided by business partners. This provides our student associates with relevant industry experience while immersed in a professional environment every day in this profession-based learning approach.
Sample projects completed by our student associates:
• Partnered with the YMCA of Greater Kansas City to address food insecurity and create better access to healthy options and meals by developing a site plan and 3D layout for a greenhouse, community garden, walking trail and landscape.
• Collaboration with the KCATA to develop and implement a survey on ridership for the public bus service. Student associates conducted the survey, presented the findings and proposed suggestions on how to make ridership a better experience.
• Partnered with UGA Finance to help their security team evaluate and recommend updates for protocols. Our student associates made recommendations on physical and electronic security after evaluating the current operations. Security tests were created for the employees to demonstrate competencies in order to keep their clients financial data safe.
• Collaboration with Autism Works to create a promotional video as well as capturing live event photo content for the organization.
• Partnered with NKC Hospital and Tri-County Mental Health to study opioid addiction in the area. Through this work our student associates developed a plan to educate recipients of Narcan kits of the risk factors, signs and response for overdose patients.
PROVIDING HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL WORK ENVIRONMENTS is the intent of the Northland CAPS program. This provides students with the opportunity to gain authentic experiences that relate to their academic and career interest, and prepare them for future jobs. The program is also designed to give employers an opportunity to guide and evaluate future talent.
There are many benefits to working in an internship. According to HR.com and Internships.com, seven out of ten internships turn into full-time jobs with the company where students interned.
Interns can:
Build a pipeline of candidates, decreasing recruitment costs
Act as advocates in recruiting other high school and college students
Offer new perspectives and innovative ideas
Assist employees with new technology
Assimilate rapidly to part-time or full-time position
Internships are offered during our class time either 7:30 am - 10:00 am or 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 4 days each week (Tuesday - Friday). These are unpaid positions, student associates are receiving high school and college credit while they are with companies during the spring.
Each year over 40% of these unpaid opportunities are converted to paid positions with companies. A powerful workforce development tool for any company.