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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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.

Register Your Business

A Simple Way In

Getting Started

1
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.
2
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.
3
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.

Partner with one school district

The Good Neighbor
Free
A business profile students and staff can discover
Best for small businesses and nonprofits
Workforce Partner
$250-$1,000/year*
Unlimited postings: job shadows, internships, and career events
Message school staff directly
Best for local employers
Strategic Partner
$1,000-$2,500/year*
Everything in Workforce Partner
Individual attention from the School Perceptions team
Best for major employers

* An annual partnership. Each school district sets its own price, and your fee supports Opening Doors in that district’s schools.

Reach beyond a single district

Regional networking
The Connector
$5,000/year
Exposure to up to 30 schools
One partnership covering up to 30 school districts
Post opportunities and events across your region
Best for multi-district employers
Statewide presence
The Champion
$10,000/year
Statewide exposure
Your brand and opportunities in front of students statewide
Best for statewide brands
Vision and legacy
The Cornerstone
$25,000/year
Statewide exposure
Statewide reach with premier recognition across the platform
Best for organizations investing in the future workforce
Become an Opening Doors Partner

A Guide by Your Side

Built on district trust.

School districts are careful about who they put in front of students. They work with people they know. We built Opening Doors alongside the districts we serve, so when your business joins, the introduction comes from the schools students already trust.

Join us and be a part of the solution.

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About School Perceptions

The team behind Opening Doors.

School Perceptions is an independent education research firm with more than 25 years of experience in conducting surveys across all domains of education nationwide. Our mission is to help educational leaders gather, organize, and use data to make strategic decisions.

Opening Doors grew out of that work. When your business joins, you work with schools through a partner they already know and trust.

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Simply put, we measure what matters to you.

What districts ask us to measure

  • Student belonging
  • Staff engagement
  • Parent satisfaction
  • Community priorities

25 years · 3,398,235 surveys · 1,370 districts