February is Career and Technical Education Month.
Want to learn more about the benefits of career and technical education for students and adult workers?
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Resources for school counselors
It’s school counseling week!
CareerOneStop has resources for students, and tools to make school counselors’ jobs easier.
Tagged with: school counselors
Building career pathways
CareerOneStop is at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Workforce Development Institute in New Orleans this week. This year’s conference is focused on “Exploring Intersections” and examining the ways that community college workforce and economic development efforts require collaboration…
Identify your skills—and explore new career options
CareerOneStop’s new Skills Matcher provides career options that match your current skills, helps identify the skills you have, and strengthens your skills awareness as you plan next steps for your career.
New career tools in CareerOneStop Mobile
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Posted in Career changers, Career counselors, Entry-level workers, Job seekers, Uncategorized
Tagged with: mobile apps
Mentoring makes a difference
Is the impulse to help others an innate human trait?
Helping others through mentoring is beneficial for both mentors and mentees, and has been around as long as human relationships have existed.
Time for a career change?
Is this the year you’re going to make the leap to a new career? Sometimes a career change is inspired by the realities of the job market: salaries, demand, technology or any number of factors can be big motivators for…
Tagged with: career changer
Over 50 and overqualified?
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Posted in Businesses and employers, Career changers, Job seekers, Older workers, Uncategorized
The job market is improving for older workers, but many still deal with the concern that they may appear overqualified to a prospective employer.
Mount a defensive against this assumption by putting yourself in the employer’s shoes.
Careers in video-game design
Think you have what it takes to be a video-game designer?
Video-game design jobs require a mix of artistic creativity and technical skills.
Tagged with: IT careers
Career and Technical Education
If we told you that high school students can earn high school credits while taking skill training that prepares them for high-wage, high-demand careers, would you say that sounds too good to be true?