Our Story
We didn't know what LinkedIn was either.
A couple of years ago, we were lost. The whole world of internships, jobs, and networking felt like something that started in college, or after — and that never sat right with us. We had friends who were smart, driven, and ready to work. Why should they wait?
School had it half-covered. There was plenty of help getting into college, and college is supposed to get you a job. But nobody taught the part in between. How to actually interview. How to talk to someone at a networking event without freezing. How to build a LinkedIn profile that doesn't look empty. How to write a resume a person actually reads. Those are the skills that open doors, and they were nowhere.
So we built the thing that didn't exist.
We pitched a club to the faculty member who ran our school's alumni relations — start with LinkedIn, then grow from there. He loved it, and added the piece that made it real: use the alumni network to bring in people who actually do these jobs. A recruiter from Zoox. Someone who works at LinkedIn. People in sales. Real professionals, teaching the real thing.
Here's the honest part. We weren't experts. We started this to learn it ourselves, right alongside everyone who showed up. Our job wasn't to lecture from the front. It was to build it, run it, and make it grow.
At first, it was boring.
We'd rent the biggest room on campus, bring in a great speaker, and watch people start to nod off through a 45-minute talk. The information was good. It just wasn't landing. So we changed how we taught it. We sent out surveys and asked what people actually wanted. We cut the talks to twenty minutes and added a hands-on activity right after — build your resume from a template and get real feedback, practice the thing you just heard, ask the speaker anything. That's when it clicked. People stopped checking out and started showing up.
It became the biggest club on campus.
From there it grew. We expanded past LinkedIn into AI and sales — we even ran a sales competition, because selling, done right, is something you do for people, not to them. We built a real team, a Notion board to track everything, weekly check-ins to keep it moving. We marketed it everywhere: the announcements, the newspaper, our own Instagram. It took everything we had — one of us even walked away from a varsity rowing spot to give it the time it needed.
What started as a handful of people in a room became the largest club on campus, 160+ members. And it worked. Our members have used those resume templates, interview reps, and LinkedIn profiles to land jobs, internships, and mentors they wouldn't have found otherwise. We're leaving soon, and we're already training the next group to carry it forward.
Then we asked: why should this stay at one school?
That's SkillBridge. We're taking everything we taught in that room — LinkedIn, resumes, interviewing, networking, the head start — and putting it where anyone can find it. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and a community you can actually join.
We've been to networking events where students our age don't even have a LinkedIn. They meet someone who could change their trajectory, and they have no way to stay in touch. That's the kind of thing we want to fix.
High school shouldn't only be about studying for the next test. It's one of the biggest networking windows you'll ever get, and the skills you build now are the ones you carry for life. You're not too young, and you're not behind. You're early. Let's get you a head start.