Partnering with business and industry to help educate students about career options may sound like an ambitious task that would strain teachers' after-hours leisure time or extra-curricular activities. It's not so. When I began my work at SouthEast Career Center in Columbus, Ohio, in 1976, my partner and I were seeking to connect electricity students with electrical contractors. As former electricians, we first exhausted all our personal contacts, and then devised a strategy that was ingenious in its simplicity. We consulted the Yellow Pages and began calling on electrical contractors to inform them of our program and recommend our students for mentoring and internship programs. We also attended and hosted electrical contractors' organization meetings. Soon enough, the program itself obtained a reputation among those in the industry, and we began to be on the receiving end of the calls.