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Unlock Your Potential
The Future-Ready Work Experience Program by Grassroots To Work is a transformative 4-week online journey for high school students (aged 16-18). We empower you to discover your unique path, build real-world capabilities, master essential professional skills, and step confidently into your future. This is career empowerment, designed to equip you with the tools for lifelong success.
The Challenge for Young People
Many young individuals leave school feeling unprepared for the modern workplace. There's often a gap between academic learning and the practical skills, professional insights, and career clarity needed to thrive.
Our Solution: A Developmental Journey
- Growth, Not Just Tasks: Tackle real challenges and develop your voice.
- Active Participation: Engage in every stage, from employer briefs to solutions.
- Build Your Story: Craft a compelling narrative of skills, resilience, and self-awareness.
Your 4-Week Immersive Journey
Each week, you'll dive into a new business dimension through project-based learning with real employer engagement, culminating in a 5th week focused on career management.
Week 1
Business Strategy & Insights
Week 2
People & Culture
Week 3
Marketing & Communication
Week 4
AI Integration for Business
Week 5: Capstone & Career Launch
Focus on Career Management Skills, CV building, interview preparation, and crafting your 'Experience Playbook'.
What You Will Achieve
Discover Your Path & Passion
Explore diverse career fields, gain clarity on your motivations, and develop crucial self-awareness through hands-on projects and reflection.
Build Real-World Capabilities & Confidence
Master essential workplace competencies, develop transferable skills, and build the resilience to tackle complex challenges.
Navigate the Modern Workplace
Learn professionalism, experience cross-cultural collaboration, and build a foundational professional network.
Skills You'll Develop
Our program is aligned with globally recognized frameworks like the WEF Skills of the Future and Skills Builder, focusing on holistic development.
The chart represents key skill areas emphasized throughout the program, including critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, digital literacy, and leadership.
Learning by Doing: Kolb's Cycle
Our pedagogy is grounded in Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle, ensuring deep and transferable learning.
1. Concrete Experience
Hands-on project work.
2. Reflective Observation
Reviewing and discussing experiences.
3. Abstract Conceptualization
Forming new ideas or modifying existing ones.
4. Active Experimentation
Applying ideas to the world around.
Our Two Core Commitments to You
1. You WILL Be Equipped for the Modern Workplace
Through immersive projects and a focus on the 'hidden curriculum,' you'll develop practical skills, professional etiquette, and a collaborative mindset essential to thrive. You'll navigate professional settings with confidence and contribute effectively from day one.
2. You WILL Master Articulating Your Value (And Have the Proof!)
We teach you to powerfully articulate your skills and growth for CVs, applications, and interviews. Crucially, you'll build your own 'Experience Playbook' – a personal record of reflections, achievements, and tailored answers, ensuring you're always prepared.
✨ Explore Potential Career Paths with AI
Curious how your skills and interests could translate into a future career? Enter a skill (e.g., "Problem Solving", "Creative Design") or an interest (e.g., "Sustainable Technology", "Digital Storytelling") below and let our AI guide suggest some exciting possibilities!
Ready to Launch Your Future?
The Future-Ready Work Experience Program is more than a program; it's your launchpad. We provide the experience, the framework, and the guidance for you to discover your potential, build your capabilities, and confidently articulate your journey to the world.
16
Students per Cohort
4+1
Weeks of Transformation
100%
Remote & Global
Program Fee:
R1,500 (South Africa)
Approx. £65 (GBP)
Approx. $85 (USD)
Approx. 300 AED
Next cohort starts: June 23rd, 2025