Join our 2025-26 Career Mentor Team!
We are recruiting career mentors for the 2025-26 school year.
We help Metro Detroit students figure out what they’ll do after high school, teach them important life and job skills, and provide the guidance and support they’ll need to achieve success and become positive influences in their families and communities. Career mentors are volunteers from the local business community who attend sessions with students and provide them with positive encouragement and coaching as they progress through our program.
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CAREER MENTORS HELP STUDENTS:
- Develop life skills
- Learn job readiness strategies
- Explore different careers
- Set academic and career goals
WE SUPPORT CAREER MENTORS THROUGH:
- Two training seminars (Oct., Jan.)
- Weekly coaching emails
- Staff support before, during, and after every session
- Structured and evidence-based curriculum and activities
AS A CAREER MENTOR, YOU WILL:
- Attend two online training seminars (Oct, Jan)
- Get matched with two to four high school students
- Participate in two or three one-hour sessions each month on a set day and time at the chosen school (Nov.-May)
- Listen with your students to a staff-led facilitation on the topic-of-the day then participate in fun, predetermined activities that reinforce the day’s lesson
IMPACTING STUDENTS AT:
- Cass Technical High School (Detroit)
- Communication & Media Arts High School (Detroit)
- Community High School (Sterling Heights)
- Harper Woods High School (Harper Woods)
- Hazel Park High School (Hazel Park)
- Warren Mott High School (Warren)
APPLICATION PROCESS:
- Complete an online application for the 2025-26 school year.
- You will be contacted in the spring of 2025 for a virtual interview and background check.
- Must be at least 24 years old.
COMPANY PRESENTATION
Invite us to pitch career mentoring opportunities to your employees or members. Contact Tiffany DiFonzo at Tiffany@WinningFutures.org or 586-413-7215. Click here for more information.
- All we need is a day, time, and location, and a little help inviting your employees. We’ll do everything else – it’s that easy!
- 30-minute in-person or virtual presentation
- It can be part of a staff or other meeting
- We provide digital and print flyers and language for invitation
Learn more by contacting Shirley Russell at ShirleyRussell@WinningFutures.org or 586-945-8092.