Become a partner
Cristo Rey Boston student associates bring high value, integrating with your staff and performing entry-level skilled tasks. These student workers contribute to your workplace needs while gaining early access to professional networks and developing newfound awareness to pursue and excel in careers or industries they may not have otherwise considered.
HOW IT WORKS
The Corporate Work Study (CWS) program is a separately incorporated entity within Cristo Rey Boston High School that places every student in a professional job (on-site, remote or hybrid) one day a week for all four years of high school. Cristo Rey Boston students are employees of CWS, not of your company. Corporate Partners pay a competitive annual service fee to the program for the students’ college preparatory education. CWS operates similarly to a temporary staffing agency with the explicit awareness and approval of relevant state agencies and the U.S. Department of Labor.
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WHY PARTNER?
EXPAND YOUR TALENT
Professional workplace environments provide consistent, high quality learning for student associates to connect classroom to career, while earning 50% of their own private education cost. Students gain valuable social and technical skills, confidence, and aspirations, along with professional mentorships that cannot be accessed in the traditional classroom.
IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Cristo Rey Boston’s student associates are culturally and linguistically diverse. Aligned with your DEI strategy, they help strengthen your diverse workforce today while creating a ripple effect that influences your industry as they carry their experience to and through college. Our Corporate Partners seek to hire student associates during and after college.
ADVANCE RACIAL EQUITY
Our students have made the choice to attend a school that works (literally) at some of the top companies in the area, and we’re asking you to consider giving them this life-changing chance to work with you.
The impact of the Corporate Work Study Program is enormous. Here are some of our recent achievements:
- Our graduates continue to be accepted into colleges and graduate with notable success. This year, 100% of the Class of 2024 were accepted into college.
- We have more than 100 Corporate Work Study Partners that represent some of the top companies in the greater Boston area.
For more information, please contact Jamie Hooper, Director of Business Development at Cristo Rey Boston. jhooper@cristoreyboston.org or 617-282-1873.
