Businesses: Get Involved!
Getting involved with the Hanover Chamber’s workforce development program allows you to:
Better develop your workforce
Identify talent to fill key positions within your organization
Become an integral part of developing high school and middle school students
Interested in joining the Chamber’s efforts to develop Hanover’s talent pipeline? Fill out the form below to indicate your interests.
Businesses can participate by offering:
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Apprenticeships combine classroom and workplace experience, allowing students to explore different crafts and trades. Students will learn necessary workplace skills, strengthen both academic and technical skills, explore careers in the trades, and enter paid apprenticeship training upon the completion of high school.
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An internship is a structured career preparation work experience where students are placed at a workplace for an established period of time. During this time, students will observe and participate in work firsthand within a specific industry. Student performance is assessed based off given learning objectives and students earn school credit.
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Career exploration that allows students to gain exposure to possible professions they are interested in by working with business volunteers. During this time, students will meet with a professional, define career goals, and learn how knowledge gained in the classroom relates to success in the workplace
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A group visit for the purpose of first-hand experience at worksites. Students will learn about the business, observe work in progress, meet employees, and ask questions relating to the business.
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Share your profession with students at a local school by speaking to classes about your work experience, how you found your career path, and any work-related training or education that is necessary for a specific career or profession.
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A mock interview is a simulated job interview with a professional. This is a tool to teach students how to answer questions, develop interview strategies, practice communication skills, and build confidence for interviews.
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During a mentorship, a student is paired one-on-one with a professional in that student’s field of interest to explore a career, career interests, and development issues in the workplace. The mentor serves as a resource for the student by providing guidance and advice about the workplace, careers, and educational requirements.
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Advisors offer guidance on the latest industry trends and provide input on curriculum and course design that can be espoused by local school districts. Advisors will meet with school districts by pathways as follows: Engineering and Industrial Technology; Science and Health; Arts and Communications; Business Finance and Information Technology and Human Services; Skilled Trades.
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Students demonstrate mastery of career-related skills through competitions or presentations that are judged by professionals of that field. Presentations or competitions display the accumulation of student efforts over time.
