unlimiteD career support: Discovery

Basta has the country’s best job placement rates for first-gen grads.
With personalized coaching, AI-powered career tools, and a vibrant community of support,
first-gen students in our Discovery program will launch their careers and post-college success!

Modernize your materials. Build a job-search network. Gain skills.

Students Who Join Discovery:

  • Seekr is our career navigation survey, which helps you gain clarity on your strengths, drivers, and goals. This will help build your job search roadmap and increase exposure to various careers and industries.

  • You get live access to best in class career coaches who have supported hundreds of students land a great job post college.

  • You will join a vibrant community of peers who face similar challenges for support and accountability.

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Discovery participants say:

  • Discovery participant, Mariam

    Mariam Diakite, Baruch College

    “One of Discovery’s benefits is flexibility because it's online. We can join it from anywhere, at any time. You have many sessions available so you can adapt to your schedule.

    The access to all the information and the professionals really helps you.
    They take their time to know your situation personally and help you to tailor that to your needs. It's not just a general program where you come and get information, but it's specifically tailored to your case, which is really rare.”

  • Yaman Nandolia, Discovery participant

    Yamaan Nandolia, University of Illinois Chicago

    “Thanks to Discovery, we are being more intentional. Self-reflection is a big thing because of the way the program is structured, the way the questions are asked, the way the ideas are introduced. Maybe you are just applying without thinking. Alternatives are given to us to make more informed decisions. It's also helping me learn the proper way to network.”

  • Victoria Ung, Discovery participant

    Victoria Ung, Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York

    “Filling out the Seekr survey was really helpful because I forget sometimes what my strengths are and what I kind of want for myself. I can kind of get lost just applying to things. So it was really nice to have that document to refer to and remind myself of the things that I'm looking for and keep them in mind when I am searching and also applying for jobs.”

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OUR discovery partners GET

  • Partner students receive unlimited access to 10+ unique courses with live coaches tailored to their needs - wherever they are on their career journey.

  • All students from our partners can access Seekr, our AI-enabled career navigation survey. Seekr helps students gain clarity on their strengths, drivers, and goals. This will help build their job search roadmap and increase exposure to various careers and industries.

    Thousands of students across the country have taken Seekr to plan more effectively their job or internship search.

  • Partners receive student Seekr reports and a comprehensive data roll-up to help drive student engagement and make data-informed decisions about programming.

  • Partners receive Marketing toolkits and support to engage with and recruit students. Resources are tailored based on students’ needs.

  • Partners join a community of practitioners to share learning and best practices on student engagement and career support.

1,500 PARTICIPANTS

96% PARTICIPANTS FEEL MORE PREPARED TO TAKE THE NEXT STEPS IN THEIR CAREER

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What is Seekr?

Seekr iS Basta's groundbreaking career navigation survey,
which revolutionizes HOW UNIVERSITIES and nonprofits WORK WITH first-gen students.

Seekr is the foundation to all Basta programs, built entirely using data from first-generation students.
Powered by real-world data from 10,000 students (and counting!),
Seekr delivers instant reports outlining students’ strengths, challenges, and pathways towards a great job.
Basta then aggregates these insights to enhance universities' programming and publish findings to inform college to career success.

OUR DISCOVERY PARTNERS

Blackstone Launchpad
Coney Island Prep
Dream
KIPP NJ
Macaulay Honors College
MESA

Options Center
Point Foundation
Row NY
Summer Search
Uaspire
Uncommon schools

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you say more about the career coaches? Who are they? How are they trained?

Our coaches have vast experiences in instructional and career coaching practices and are internally trained in Basta’s data-driven and research-based approach to career support.

ARE DISCOVERY seSSIONS 1:1 or in cohorts?

They are in flexible peer cohorts. Students will be in sessions with peers on a similar program trajectory and will be able to make lots of various connections across a broad network of participants.

How long are sessions ?

60-90 min each. Sessions are interactive with synchronous content facilitated by a live coach.

Is the Seekr survey a prerequisite to participate in discovery? 

Yes, it’ll be part of the seamless student registration process to access all our synchronous sessions and content.

Can students participate more than once? For example, if they participate in sophomore year toward internship, can they participate again for job placement as a senior?

Programming will be accessible by each registered student until June 2024.

how long is the required TIME commitment to participate?

After the Seekr Survey is completed (15-20 mins), there is NO REQUIRED TIME COMMITMENT. Students can participate as much and as often as they choose to.