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Workforce GPS
“WorkforceGPS is your online technical assistance website created to help build the capacity of America’s public workforce investment system. Sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, WorkforceGPS was developed specifically for workforce professionals, educators, and business leaders. Here you will find curated communities of interest, useful webinars and other training resources, promising workforce development practices, and relevant evidence-based research – giving you the tools you need to help you create innovative approaches to improve the employment prospects of job seekers.”
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YouthRules.Gov
“The YouthRules! initiative promotes positive and safe work experiences for teens by providing information about protections for young workers to youth, parents, employers, and educators. Through the YouthRules! initiative, the U.S. Department of Labor and its partners promote positive and safe work experiences that help prepare young workers in the 21st-century workforce.”
Know Your Right to Organize
The US DOL has created a new toolkit to inform workers about their right to organize, their right to collective action, and their right to form a union.
Career Trajectories & Transitions Dashboard
“The Career Trajectories and Occupational Transitions (CTOT) dashboard is an interactive tool that allows users to view data from four nationally representative longitudinal surveys and online career profiles that capture workers’ career trajectories and transitions as they occur in the labor market. The dashboard focuses on “mid-level” occupations – those that typically require education or experience beyond a high school diploma or equivalent, but less than a four-year degree.”
Project Zero
“Project Zero is our commitment to engaging students in learning about climate science and clean energy, providing green job opportunities for young adults disconnected from work and school and investing in greenspace development in communities disproportionately feeling the impacts of climate change.”
Building Work Ethic in a Post-Pandemic World: Five Strategies to Develop Essential Soft Skills
This presentation outlines five strategies to develop essential soft skills. For more information about the presenter, Josh Davies, or the Center for Work Ethic Development, see https://workethic.org/
Beat The Streets: Recruitment After the Pandemic
Learn more about the difference between outreach vs recruitment strategies and build your own plan using this training handout and Outreach & Recruitment Planning Workbook .