Career Discovery Week
Introducing public high school students to the world of work and the extraordinary range of career choices that New York City employers offer.
About Career Discovery Week
Launched in 2020 as a joint initiative between the Partnership for New York City and New York City Public Schools, Career Discovery Week brings high school students into some of the city’s most vibrant and important workplaces for exciting hands-on career exploration.
To date, more than 200 of the city’s major employers have joined forces to build a bridge from the city’s classrooms to its workplaces. More than 11,000 public high school students have had the chance to gain a better understanding of the future job opportunities available to them as they spend a day at worksites, learning about varied industries and wide-ranging career possibilities.
Career-Connected Learning
Career Discovery Week is part of FutureReadyNYC, a NYC Public Schools Student Pathways initiative that focuses on career-connected learning, and provides work-based learning opportunities and career exposure to high school students.
Schools have been matched with public and private sector employers based on alignment between curricula and industry sector: students from the Bronx Academy of Letters visited Hearst to learn about the world of publishing; students from the Business of Sports School visited the NBA; students from the Theatre Arts Production Company School participated in programming by the Shubert Organization.
Career Discovery Week builds on a 2018 research report developed by the Partnership and Oliver Wyman. It demonstrates the impact that the business community and employee volunteers can have on young people in New York City by exposing them to career paths.
Career Discovery Week Activities
The organizations hosting students come from a broad cross-section of New York City’s diverse and dynamic industry base in the public and private sector, including financial services, transportation, technology, media, aviation, consumer goods, real estate, healthcare, government, and entertainment.
Past hosts and activities include:
Hearst – Students toured the Good Housekeeping Institute, decorated cupcakes with Food Network Magazine, wrote their own headlines, and learned about careers from colleagues across the organization.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. – Students participated in technology-themed career development programs, joined a build-a-thon with employee volunteers, and met with the data and analytics team to learn about their work.
NBA/WNBA – Students learned about a career in sports, how to build their personal and professional brand, and what the business of basketball looks like.
New York City Transit – Students rode in the MTA’s new EV bus to tour the Zerega Bus Maintenance and Training Facility and participated in an MTA bus simulator exercise.
NYSE – Students toured the historic stock exchange and presented mock company pitches.
PwC – Students attended a creative computing and technology demonstration followed by a career readiness workshop, panel, and hands-on activity requiring collaboration and teamwork.
The Howard Hughes Corporation – Students visited the brand-new Tin Building & Pier, and worked on a “build your own city” project.
Tishman Speyer – Students got a behind the scenes tour of Rockefeller Center and Radio Park, learned best practices for interviewing, and heard from employees with a range of career pathways during a panel and Q&A.
CAREER DISCOVERY WEEK IMPACT
200+
Employers
11k+
Public High School Students
5
Boroughs Reached
2025 PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS
AB
Accenture
Advocates for Children of New York
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Allen & Company LLC
Amazon
American Express
American International Group, Inc.
Arup
Barclays PLC
BFC Partners
Bloomberg
Brooklyn Public Library
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
BXP
Capital One
City Year New York
Con Edison
Condé Nast
Covington & Burling LLP
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank AG
Eisner Advisory Group LLC
EmblemHealth Services LLC
Equitable
Etsy, Inc.
EY
Federal Reserve Bank
Fiserv
Fisher Brothers
Freshfields
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
General Atlantic LLC
GLG
Global Atlantic Financial Company
Hearst
HSBC Bank USA
IBM
iMentor
Jamestown Properties LLC
JCDecaux North America
JetBlue Airways Corporation
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Kearney
KKR
KPMG LLP
Kyndryl Inc.
Lafayette 148 New York
LaGuardia Gateway Partners
Latham & Watkins LLP
Lazard
Lightyear Capital
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.
M&T Bank Corporation
Macquarie Group
Macy's, Inc.
Mastercard
McGraw Hill
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center
Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Moelis & Company
Mount Sinai Health System – Morningside
MTA HQ
Nagarro
National Grid
Neuberger Berman
New Visions for Public Schools
New York Aquarium (Wildlife Conservation Society)
New York City Transit
New York Community Trust
New York Edge
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Public Library
Newmark
NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Northwell Health
NYC Health + Hospitals - Elmhurst
NYC Office of Emergency Management
NYC Police Department
NYSE
Oak Hill Advisors L.P.
Office of Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine
Office of Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams
Office of the Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso
Ogilvy
Oliver Wyman
Paramount Global
Pfizer Inc.
Phipps Houses
Powerhouse Arts
PwC
RAL Companies & Affiliates LLC
Robin Hood Foundation
Rockefeller Group International, Inc.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Rudin Management Company, Inc.
Santander US
Sidley Austin LLP
Situation Group
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
SL Green Realty Corp.
Standard Chartered Bank
SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Tapestry, Inc.
TD Bank
Teach for America New York
The Charles Hayden Foundation
The City University of New York- K16 Initiatives
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
The John Gore Organization Inc.
The New York Botanical Garden
The Pinkerton Foundation
The Related Companies, L.P.
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Tiger Foundation
Tishman Speyer
U.S. News & World Report
UBS
United Airlines
Verizon Communications, Inc.
Via
Vornado Realty Trust
Vox Media
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Wells Fargo & Company
West Monroe
WilmerHale
WNBA & National Basketball Association
WTW
Zurich Insurance Group Ltd