The workforce ecosystem
Preparing the next generation for the workforce
EmergeNET helps students explore careers, develop real-world skills, and connect with employers for meaningful experiences — in one platform schools and employers share.
The path from education to career is broken
Students
Are asked to choose careers before they understand what jobs actually look like.
Schools
Struggle to connect classroom learning with real-world opportunities.
Employers
Need talent but lack ways to engage students early.
EmergeNET connects education and industry into one workforce ecosystem.
One platform, three sides
Students, schools and employers each get their own view of the same network — which is what makes the connections between them real rather than administrative.
For students
- Find internships, apprenticeships and jobs from real local employers
- Track every application — jobs, scholarships and college — on one board
- Work real business problems in teams and earn credentials for it
- Talk directly to employers and your career advisor
For schools
- See where every student is in their search, not just who asked for help
- Assign work, run work-based learning, and report on outcomes
- Post your own opportunities, scholarships and programs
- Bring employer partners into structured, accredited projects
For employers
- Reach students before they have chosen a path, not after
- Run hiring through a real applicant pipeline, not a spreadsheet
- Set challenges that build the skills you actually need
- Host events and build a presence with partner schools
What runs on it
The everyday work of connecting students to careers, in one place instead of six systems that do not talk to each other.
Opportunities
Jobs, internships, apprenticeships, job shadows and work-based learning, posted by employers and schools.
Scholarships
Posted, discovered and tracked in the same place students track everything else.
Programs
Colleges and training providers put their pathways in front of students at the moment they are deciding.
Assignments
Educators set work with milestones and deadlines; students submit solo or in teams.
Events
Career fairs, employer visits and info sessions, with registration and check-in.
Messaging
Students, advisors and employers in one conversation instead of three email threads.
And apps for the deeper work
Add what your organization needs. Each one is granted to a school or company, and everyone there gets it.
Application Tracker
Every application a student sends — jobs, scholarships, college — on one board, with deadlines and what is still missing.
Applicant Tracking
A real hiring pipeline for employers and schools: stages, scorecards, reviewers and shared notes.
EPIC Challenges
Teams of students solve a live employer problem and earn a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation badge.
In partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Students solving real business problems
Through EPIC — Employer Provided Innovation Challenges — an employer sets a live problem from their business and teams of students work it as a project, mentored by the people whose problem it is. They finish with a digital badge from the Chamber for the durable skills they demonstrated.
- 1An employer sets a challenge from their real business
- 2A school puts forward teams of two to five students
- 3Teams work it with the employer over weeks, not hours
- 4Students earn a Chamber-issued credential for the skills they showed
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Help students discover careers, develop skills, and connect with opportunities. Tell us a little about your school, district or company and we will show you how it works.
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