Launch your career with COOP

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We all need the right relationships to launch a meaningful career.

COOP’s tuition-free fellowship matches peer cohorts of underemployed college grads with alumni coaches who support them in building the professional skills and networks they need to get their first good job after graduation. 

Through the power of peer connections, our program has propelled thousands of underemployed college grads into career success. Within 12 months of program completion, three out of four COOP alumni are fully employed, earning an average of $50,000 per year. 

Learn more about how COOP can help you build the skills and connections you need for the career you deserve.

Peer cohorts

Finding meaningful work is hard. Why should it be lonely?

Your cohort at COOP is your crew, your squad—basically, your go-to people who lay the groundwork for your network.

Every spring and fall, COOP convenes peer cohorts of 10-16 diverse, upwardly mobile college grads in New York, California, Miami, and Chicago. 

For 16 weeks, motivated grads meet nightly (200 hours) to learn technical skills, meet potential employers, and build community to secure full-time positions in Digital Marketing, Data Analytics, and Financial Services.

Alumni captains

This is the real muscle behind COOP’s game-changing program, Our alumni! They drop knowledge in every nook and cranny of COOP’s 200-hour curriculum. They’re basically the gold standard of what we’re about.

Each cohort is led by a team of four captains, returning COOP alumni who serve as coaches, mentors, and guides. Captains teach 100% of COOP’s 200-hour curriculum, and they are undeniably the hallmark of our program.

Curriculum 

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COOP’s 200-hour head-heart-hustle curriculum introduces participants to the hard and soft skills of the industry and provides guidance and support as they search for that good first job. 

Head (100 hours): Build a strong foundation of hard skills such as Excel, Google Analytics, SQL, and Programmatic to develop the knowledge you need for a career in the digital economy

Heart (50 hours): Strengthen soft skills such as communication, conflict resolution, and time management to develop your strengths and grow a professional network

Hustle (50 hours): Grow job-hunting skills such as resume and cover letter writing, email etiquette, and collective networking to hit the job market with a plan, a portfolio, and support from peers

We design our curriculum with initial and ongoing input from senior leaders and junior practitioners at our industry partners. We work with our partners to understand industry needs to best incorporate trends into our curriculum and program implementation.

Connections

COOP believes that having near-peer connections—alumni who’ve recently been where COOPers are now—is the secret sauce to making our program shine. We imagine a world where breaking through underemployment happens because of these bonds.

While we don’t guarantee positions, we are absolutely committed to helping you make as many connections as possible, for as long as it takes.

Our dedicated Partnerships team builds relationships with employers to connect participants and alumni to full-time, salaried positions.

COOP Fellows have access to networking events, skill-development workshops, and a dynamic job board that lists open professional opportunities with our employer partners.

We host hiring events at the end of every program cycle. These career fairs bring together employer partners and recent COOP alumni to interview for open positions in the digital economy.

COOP alumni are building careers at Publicis Media, TikTok, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, J.P. Morgan Chase, Bloomberg, and Barclays, among others.

Coaching

COOP has a strong Alumni Engagement team that provides ongoing coaching and training for at least the first year post-completion. Each alumni manager maintains a caseload of COOP alumni to support them in getting their first good job.

The 200 hours of our fellowship are truly just the induction period for being a part of the COOP community.

COOP has a strong Alumni Engagement team that provides ongoing coaching and training for at least the first year post-completion.

Alumni managers support alumni in landing their first good job.

Project-based learning project

The client project adds a practical and collaborative dimension to the learning experience. The hands-on experience is a valuable way for students to apply what they've learned in a real-world context.

Our program culminates in an end-of-program group project that serves as a hands-on learning experience for participants to gain professional skills.

The capstone project offers our program participants the opportunity to demonstrate and refine their technical and soft skills in real time.

Fellows collaborate in small groups to derive data-driven insights that replicate entry level job responsibilities in data analytics, digital marketing, and financial services.

Completing the capstone project results in a deliverable—such as a report or presentation—that serves as a tangible work-like experience they can leverage during their career search and highlight during job interviews.

You can learn more about this partnership opportunity here and apply to take part in the next cycle.