Equipping FGLI Students with On-the-job Skills

Landing a meaningful summer experience is an important milestone, but how do our FGLI students perform when they do secure jobs, internships, and full-time roles? We'll share some data that shows that FGLI professionals have a different experience from their peers in the workplace, and go over an effective intervention that First-Gen Offices and their partners could adopt. FutureMap's curriculum around on-the-job skills is rooted in employer and student feedback. We'll share the framework and learnings from a climate workforce program using our curriculum, where students reported an average of a 17% increase in their baseline assessment of top skills like time management, and employer rated the interns' skills in those same areas as better than other interns! Attendees will take away some actionable ideas for how their organizations can provide programming that no other groups on campus provide, helping FGLI students feel a greater sense of belonging and perform better in their 'professional' work experiences. 

About Sruti Bharat

Sruti Bharat is the founder and CEO of FutureMap, experts in the college-to-career transition for first-gen, low-income students. Since 2018 FutureMap has delivered workshops, trainings, and coaching to over 1500 FGLI students through college access and other first-gen-focused partners. Before doing FutureMap full-time, Sruti was the Interim CEO at All Raise, a gender equity non-profit promoting women & non-binary founders and VC's in tech. She was also a consultant at Bain and Company, a Kellogg MBA, and held operations, strategy, and chief of staff responsibilities at a global software company. She has worked on diversity, equity, and inclusion from all angles (recruiting, team leadership, training) across both private and nonprofit sectors.