Connecting young people to careers. Professionals to purpose.
Bridging the Gap connects teenagers and young adults with professionals, employers, and community leaders who provide meaningful career access, exposure, and preparation.
Complete your STS professional profile once. Use POINT whenever you are ready to register for an opportunity.
Career potential is everywhere. Career access is not.
Young people are often asked to make important decisions about college, careers, and their futures without enough exposure to the people, workplaces, and experiences that could inform those decisions.
Career Access
Introduce young people to professionals, industries, workplaces, and pathways they may not otherwise encounter.
Career Exposure
Make different roles, workplace expectations, and routes to success visible and understandable.
Career Preparation
Build communication, interviewing, networking, leadership, and other skills needed to become Day One Ready.
Choose how you want to make an impact.
Bridging the Gap supports schools, colleges, universities, and community organizations across Memphis. Opportunities vary by partner, audience, format, and time commitment.
Create your profile
Complete a one-time profile so STS understands your experience, interests, and preferred ways to serve.
Complete your profile →Explore opportunities
Visit POINT to view opportunities with participating schools, universities, and community organizations.
Open POINT →Register and serve
Select an opportunity that fits your interests and schedule. POINT manages registration, details, and reminders.
Know what to expect →There is more than one way to bridge the gap.
Give one hour, participate several times a year, or build an ongoing connection. Use the filters to explore where your experience could fit.
Career Speaker
Share your career journey, lessons learned, and practical advice.
Panelist
Join a conversation about industries, pathways, and professional growth.
Workshop Facilitator
Lead a practical session in an area where you have expertise.
Mock Interviewer
Help students practice communicating their strengths with confidence.
Career Coach
Support exploration, goal-setting, and professional preparation.
Résumé Reviewer
Strengthen résumés, LinkedIn profiles, and professional summaries.
Workplace Host
Open your workplace for a tour, career conversation, or job shadow.
Employer Partner
Mobilize employees, host experiences, sponsor, or create pathways.
Bring career access to your students.
STS works with middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities, and community organizations to design career-connected learning experiences.
- Career days
- Industry panels
- Mock interviews
- Professional workshops
- Mentoring
- Workplace visits
Mobilize your people. Strengthen the future workforce.
Create structured opportunities for employees and members to share expertise and help prepare the next generation of talent.
- Employee speakers
- Workplace tours
- Job shadowing
- Internships
- Sponsorship
- In-kind support
We make it easier to show up prepared.
STS and the participating organization will provide the available information you need for each opportunity.
- Student audience and session objectives
- Schedule, location, and check-in details
- Volunteer role and preparation guidance
- Applicable screening or visitor requirements
Completing your profile expresses interest—it does not commit you to a specific activity. You choose individual opportunities through POINT.
Before you step in.
Professionals, employers, entrepreneurs, educators, retirees, industry leaders, and community leaders with relevant knowledge or experience are encouraged to participate.
Commitments vary. Some opportunities require only one hour, while mentoring or workplace experiences may involve a longer commitment. Each POINT listing will state the expected time.
Your STS profile captures your professional experience and interests. POINT is where you find and register for individual opportunities. Complete the profile once; use POINT whenever you serve.
Requirements vary by opportunity and participating organization. Activities involving minors may require screening, identification, orientation, confidentiality agreements, or other procedures.
Yes. Companies can provide volunteers, host visits, support job-shadowing, offer internships or apprenticeships, sponsor programs, or contribute resources.
Yes. Opportunities may be in person, virtual, or hybrid depending on the needs of each school or organization.
You may be the connection that changes a young person’s future.
Join professionals and organizations across Memphis working to bridge the gap between education, career access, and workforce readiness.