For Employers & Community Partners · Powered by School Perceptions

You need a strong workforce.
Students need direction.

Opening Doors is the one place to connect, coordinate, and communicate with local schools. It’s now easy to share job shadows, internships, part-time jobs, and youth apprenticeships. Improve your reputation and build a lasting presence in your community.

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Looking for the student experience? Walk back through the door.

The Opportunity

Your future workforce is graduating and leaving. By the time they’re job‑ready, they’re heading somewhere else.

Students Don’t Know

Students default to careers they can see. If they don’t know what you do, you’re not in the running when they choose a career path.

Talent Leaves

Communities raise a generation and then lose them because no one connected students to a career worth staying for.

You’re Unknown

The community can’t credit you for your goodwill and effort that it never sees.

Partnerships Are Difficult

You want to connect with local schools, but finding the right contact and maintaining the partnership is too time consuming.

The Solution

A doorway into your local school

Part-Time Jobs, Internships & Apprenticeships

Post Opportunities

Easily share opportunities. Students sign up right from their dashboards, so your openings reach the next generation directly.

Your Future Workforce

Build a Talent Pipeline

Turn one-off visits into an ongoing relationship. A consistent presence gives you a head start on the talent you’ll want to hire.

Your Company, Front and Center

Raise Your Company’s Profile

Put your company in front of families and students exploring their futures. Show them what you do, why it matters, and what a career with you really looks like.

A Direct Line

Connect With Schools

It’s easy to message district staff to introduce your company, ask questions, and coordinate logistics. A built-in communication hub keeps employers, staff, and students connected.

A Simple Way In

Getting Started

Create your business account

Register in minutes and tell us about your company. If your email domain matches a partner organization, we’ll connect you automatically.

Choose how you want to show up

Start free, or pick a partnership tier that fits. It’s flexible: post job shadows, internships, and events, and build a branded profile students actually see.

Start
connecting

Students sign up right from their dashboards, district staff coordinate the details, and you start building your future workforce in your own community.

Partnership Tiers

Invest in your community. The community invests in you.

80% of every partner dollar returns directly to participating school districts as subscription credits. The more a community’s businesses invest, the less the platform costs districts. And eventually, it pays for itself. You’re not donating; you’re investing in your own future workforce.

For Local BusinessRooted in one school community

Basic visibility

The Good Neighbor

Free

Exposure to 1 school

Basic employer visibility

Best for small businesses and nonprofits

Full visibility

Workforce Partner

$250-$1,000*

Exposure to 1 school

Full visibility and unlimited postings

Best for local employers

Influence

Strategic Partner

$1,000-$2,500*

Exposure to 1 school

Influence and individual attention

Best for major employers

For Regional & Statewide BusinessesReach across many communities

Regional networking

The Connector

$5,000/year

Exposure to up to 30 schools

Regional networking

Best for multi-district employers

Statewide presence

The Champion

$10,000/year

Statewide exposure

Statewide presence

Best for statewide brands

Vision and legacy

The Cornerstone

$25,000/year

Statewide exposure

Vision and legacy

Best for thought leaders

Become a Business Partner

* Prices are set by the local school district • Free options available

A Guide by Your Side

The network is already built.

For more than 25 years, school districts have turned to School Perceptions to help measure what matters: student belonging, staff engagement, parent satisfaction, and community priorities. More than 1,300 districts trust us.

We’re an education research firm, and we built Opening Doors so the schools we already work with can connect students to real employers. For your business, that’s a credible, established path right into local classrooms, without the cold calls.

You don’t have to build these relationships alone.

Become a Partner

Here for the student or district experience?

Opening Doors for Business is the employer side of the platform. Students, families, and school districts have their own front door. Walk through and we’ll take you there.

Go to the Student Site

Ready to Open the Door?

Your future workforce is worth meeting early.

We’ll walk you through how local employers use Opening Doors, show you what a branded presence looks like to students, and tell you exactly what this looks like for a company your size.