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Daily News & Info. - National, International, Business, Technology, Lifestyle, Health, Weather. Business Research - Company, Financial, Government, International, Legislature, Statistics. Office Tools & Travel - Airlines, Tech Tools, Reference, Directory Search.

Career Exploration

AcademicInfo: Subject Guides & Online Degrees
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers).
Career & Technical Education (CTE) Information
Your Dream Job: Getting There Through Career and Technical Education
Career Clusters
16 Career Clusters
Career Trees
A new initiative of the Workforce Development Council Snohomish County, Career Trees are visual representations of vital education, training, and apprenticeship pathways and lattices in nine industry sectors targeted by workforce and economic development as local high-growth sectors.
Check Out A College
New statewide community and technical college website
Exploring the Paths to Your Future - Career Clusters
Every Career and Technical Education class falls into one of 16 “career clusters.” A career cluster is a group of jobs and industries that are related by skills or products. Within each cluster, there are cluster “pathways” that correspond to a collection of courses and training opportunities to prepare you for a given career.
Health Opportunities for Today and Tomorrow (HOTT)
Washington's HOTTest Healthcare Career Exploration Website! Do you know what you want to do with your life following high school? The opportunities in healthcare are unlimited!
Navigation 101 FAQ
Navigation 101 is a life skills and planning curriculum for students in grades 6 through 12.
Northwest Marine Trade Assoc.
View jobs and training information.
O*NET OnLine
Career One Stop, Tools and Technology, Occupations, Crosswalk Search, and Skills Search
Occupational Outlook Handbook
U.S. Dept. of Labor
The Riley Guide
Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet
Where Are You Going Career Guide
Where are you going? provides a step-by-step process for making career choices—whether you’re a student selecting your first career or an adult making a career transition.
WorkSource Washington
Washington State Job Listings
Your Dream Job: Getting There Through Career and Technical Education
No matter what your dream, you can pursue it through Career and Technical Education (CTE), a program for middle and high school students in Washington’s public schools.

Economic Analysis & Workforce Information

Choose Washington
Washington State Department of Commerce
NAPE - National Allliance for Partnerships in Equity
Programs and Practices That Work Preparing Students For Nontraditional Careers. A project of the Association for Career and Technical Education, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education and the National Women’s Law Center.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education.
Skills2Compete
Skills2Compete is a non-partisan campaign to ensure our workforce has skills needed to meet business demand, foster innovation, and grow broadly shared prosperity.

LEADERSHIP

Leadership Skagit
Developing Leaders Today to Shape Our Tomorrow The vision of Leadership Skagit is to develop leaders at all levels in our community. This intensive program is designed to inspire people to want to become leaders and to prepare them for these community leadership roles. Each year, Leadership Skagit will select 30 participants representing the private, public, and nonprofit sectors of our community for a nine-month civic leadership development program. Our goal is to create a network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitment to serve will energize Skagitonians to shape our county's future.

Manufacturing and Marine

Anacortes Marine Trade Association
Dedicated to the sustainability of the marine trades.
Manufacturing is Cool
Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Manufacturing is cool, and so is this user friendly website.

Recycle - Sustainability

RecycleMania
What Is RecycleMania? RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.

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