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The Best Candidates You Never Knew About
65%
53%
79%
79% of OMD Alumni are employed, continuing their
education, or both
53% of OMD Scholars are the first in their families to
attend college
65% of OMD Scholars graduate
OMD Scholars have already demonstrated their motivation to succeed, investing their time to be great professionals. These are people you should pay attention to.
One Million Degrees Scholars have a strong work ethic and a fierce desire to succeed. They are highly motivated community college students from low-income communities pursuing degrees in challenging fields including healthcare, education, medical technology, and computer science.
OMD Scholars receive support in four critical areas: personal, academic, financial, and professional. They develop the job readiness skills that make them great employees. They learn to value team work, create actionable goals from feedback they receive, and take accountability for their own success. They also receive professional coaching along the way to help ensure they graduate with the skills needed to excel in their chosen fields.
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Sixty-five percent of Illinois’ public college students attend community college, but only one in four will graduate with a degree within three years. OMD is changing that. OMD Scholars are graduating from community college at a rate double the state average and transferring to four-year colleges and universities or entering the workforce in high-demand fields.
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NEW OMD SCHOLARS listen to a speaker at the 2016 All-Scholar Orientation and Kick-off.
OMD SCHOLAR AMBASSADORS greet guests at the 2016 Food & Wine Gala.
Why You Should Partner with OMD
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“We need people who can adapt and interact with this company in a different way. [OMD Alumni] have the qualities we’re looking for in good employees.”
Ivan Femia Practice Manager, Customer Engagement, Techedge USA
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“Scholars and Alumni don’t take success for granted. They are hardworking, enthusiastic, and eager to make a difference. Most of all, they are qualified to undertake challenging positions and hungry for these jobs.”
Paige Ponder Chief Executive Officer, One Million Degrees
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You’re looking for your next diverse, high-potential employee.OMD Scholars come from diverse backgrounds. Not only are most the first in their families to attend college, they are working while taking classes and juggling many responsibilities to get to school. OMD Scholars and Alumni are a pool of highly motivated, talented candidates who have opted into a program that pushes them to achieve their goals.
You need priority-driven employees ready to make an impact.OMD Scholars have built competencies and skills that will enhance your workforce and grow your business. They have:
• Demonstrated a strong work ethic
• Been highly accountable through each step of the rigorous OMD program
• Been mentored and coached by a professional
• Actively participated in professional readiness skills workshops, including networking and public speaking
You need to bring new perspectives and innovations to your team.By hiring OMD Scholars and Alumni, you bring in highly motivated talent with new ideas and energy to push your team forward. OMD Scholars have already overcome adverse circumstances to successfully persist towards their degrees; they are ready to create an impact for businesses like yours.
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The majority of OMD Scholars are the first in their families to attend college. By earning their degrees, they are positively impacting generations to come, strengthening their families, their communities, and the city as a whole.
They know that it takes hard work, dedication, and motivation to succeed. Every day, OMD Scholars overcome barriers that many of us cannot imagine. They enter the workforce eager to contribute and use the skills they’ve worked hard to develop.
By partnering with OMD to develop and hire scholars and alumni, you not only make a long-term investment in your company and in the community, you can change a life forever.
Meet the Trailblazers
OMD Scholars are growing into tomorrow’s community and business leaders. You get the talent you need, and they get the opportunity they need to move forward in their careers.
OMD SCHOLARS network during a 2016 OMD event.
“One Million Degrees is delivering results: for students who are bringing transformational change in their lives, for our city and state, for the business partners and foundations who support them, for the volunteers who are involved with OMD– and results for the employers who are hiring these talented individuals.”
Melissa Bean Chairman of the Midwest, JPMorgan Chase Vice Chair, OMD Board of Directors
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Get to Know Our TalentSpeed Networking Events: Engage your employees and the community. Networking with OMD Scholars allows you to see their incredible talent for yourself.
Job Shadowing: Open your workplace, and help OMD Scholars explore their chosen fields through hands-on experience.
Develop Your EmployeesCoaching: Give your employees the opportunity to volunteer a few hours a month as an OMD Coach, where they will mentor a student through the challenges and successes of community college and help scholars prepare for their careers.
Hire OMD ScholarsDirect Hire: Select from a pool of accomplished candidates that have the necessary skills and motivation to jump in and start working in part- and full-time positions.
Internship & Apprenticeship Programs: Recruit and train highly competent and eager individuals and create your next pipeline for talent as they learn on-the-job skills.
Find your next great employee. Contact us today.
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Oak Street Health
works closely with
each intern on areas
of improvement, and
finds that the skills
learned as part of
OMD transfer well to
Oak Street Health’s
rigorous standards.
Oak Street Health operates 20 clinics in Chicago, Indiana, and Michigan tailored to the unique needs of people with Medicare. Nine OMD Scholars pursuing degrees at Chicago community colleges in business, pre-med, nursing, social work, and dental hygiene were part of its summer internship program this year.
Oak Street Health’s model is based on personal contact with local residents who often need assistance navigating the Medicare system. Interns learn the basics of Medicare, including eligibility requirements, before they go into the clinic territories to conduct well-being checks on the residents. If a resident is interested and eligible, interns manage the doctor, nurse practitioner, and physician assistant schedules across the 20 clinics.
Alicia Thomas, Director of Community Outreach at Oak Street Health, found that the skills acquired through OMD transfer well to their rigorous standards. “The OMD Scholar interns who attend Chicago’s community colleges are mature and focused,” she said. “They have the necessary soft skills to do the job, plus the ability to be coached and take initiative.”
Ms. Thomas also finds that the interns’ involvement with OMD has positive effects on their work performance. “We’re finding that interns who have support
from someone outside of Oak Street Health do well in the program. OMD also holds them accountable.”
Oak Street Health’s goal is to find interested and qualified interns who can remain at Oak Street Health beyond the internship program. “We look at the internship as a three-month interview. If they’ve already graduated, they may be offered a full-time position, or if they’re still in school, we’ll accommodate their schedules so that they can work flexible hours, including weekends and holidays, while attending classes.”
Because of this year’s success with OMD Scholars, Ms. Thomas plans to continue their partnership with OMD next year.
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Guillermo CuelloScholar Spotlight
Guillermo Cuello, a 19-year-old business major attending Wilbur Wright College, sees his internship at Oak Street Health as a pathway to his future.
“I want to work for a company that has good values and makes a positive impact on the community and society as a whole,” he said. “When I learned about the internship at Oak Street Health, I researched the company and found it to be the type of company I was looking for in my career.”
As an Oak Street Health intern, he works in the community conducting well-being checks on residents within the clinic territories, making calls to patients, and scheduling appointments. “You get satisfaction knowing that you helped someone who may not have had it otherwise.”
OMD helps Guillermo develop both academically and professionally, providing tutoring
and assistance with writing when he needs it. The OMD program prepared him not only for the interview process to obtain the internship at Oak Street Health, but how to excel on the job.
“Guillermo is a very impressive intern,” said Alicia Thomas, Director of Community Outreach, Oak Street Health. “He consistently performs well and has represented the company in Chicago, Rockford, and Indianapolis, where he is serving on a special team. He takes direction well, completes 100% of his tasks on a daily basis, follows up with his patients, and is always in a great mood.”
“Without OMD, I wouldn’t have the opportunities I have now,” he said. “I see people who have the same struggles I went through and I tell them it may take them longer to do some things, but anything is possible if you work at it.”
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“Guillermo is a very impressive intern... He consistently performs well and has represented the company in Chicago, Rockford, and Indianapolis, where he is serving on a special team. He takes direction well, completes 100% of his tasks on a daily basis, follows up with his patients, and is always in a great mood.”
