Employment Impact for Students and Grads With GlobalMindED Inclusive Success Network and Mentors: Join us to Meet Them Next Week!
GlobalMindED helps students meet mentors and tap in to a social network to amplify their college experience. Our new class is announced on Monday and begins their cohort- 200 strong. Here is one person’s story and their arc-of-time career journey to launch:
Brian Ysasaga took one step inside the building during Colorado Aerospace Day at the Capital in March 2022 and turned around.
“I’m not going to lie to you, I ran out. I walked in and everybody was in suits,” said the jeans-clad Ysasaga, who was studying to become a pilot at Metropolitan State University of Denver. “I’ve never owned a suit in my life. I didn’t feel comfortable.”
He’d already gone further educationally than anyone in his family in Texas. The first to graduate from high school. The first to go to college. He wanted to be a pilot and picked MSU because the school “helps with your first two lessons.” But as the airline industry ground to a halt and pilots were furloughed during COVID, his professor encouraged him to consider other careers since he could always get his pilot license. So, he started looking into aerospace.
Call it happenstance but on his way back to his car, he bumped into an unfamiliar face, Carol Carter, who said to him the event hadn’t started yet and asked where was he going? She listened and encouraged him to wander with her through the Capitol. It was life-changing for Ysasaga — and not just because he wound up meeting the person at Lockheed Martin who later would hire him. It’s because of Carter, who became a mentor and called herself his “Colorado mom,” he said.
You can read the rest of the story here: Underemployed? How one Colorado Company is Trying to Help.
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