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"With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability."
-President Barack Obama
Read more about the President's Plan for technical
and community colleges
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Test Prep Review
Test Prep Review
Free online practice tests
MATC and the public libraries
have Learning Express. It is available from your library's web site.
LearningExpress Library provides an interactive online learning platform of
practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult
learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. Create your
own individual username and password to take tests and track your progress.
You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an
individualized analysis of your results.
Seeking New Life in a New Line of Work
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
The federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics has a variety of powerful and richly detailed handbooks for the job seeker.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
The OOH is organized by job description and includes such details as: job market in each state, training needed, typical work conditions, earnings, and more. Take a look to see if your own dream job is here. - Career Guide to Industries Have an industry in mind? Here you can check out what kind of jobs it offers, where they are located, how much you might typically earn, and much more.
Web Sites
- Career onestop Links to valuable information, including career-specific links for each career category. Notice that there’s a section dedicated to ‘Military Transition’, and career info is tailored by state, which is nifty
- International Careers Links to opportunities in employment, career, etc. from all parts of the world.
- U.S. Department of State Discover how you might fit in at the U.S. Department of State. Here you can take a look at which career path is right for you.
- Wisconsin WorkNet Career Exploration What are the hottest jobs in Wisconsin? How much do they pay? This State of WI Web site is chock full of information about up-and-coming careers. Easy searching! Compare salaries between counties, find a local career center, and more.
Monster.com Career News Feed
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Career OneStop
Career OneStop, a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site includes:
Career Videos 550 career videos freely available online in English and Career Videos in Spanish with over 300 videos
Interested in a "Green" Job?
- Careers in Wind from the American Wind Energy Association Search for jobs in wind energy, post a resume, sign up for job alerts. Just one section of a comprehensive Web site from the authority on wind energy in the United States.
- Greener Pathways: Jobs and Workforce Development in the Clean Energy Economy This 2008 report from the Wisconsin Center On Strategy talks about jobs in the clean energy economy: what skills are needed, where jobs are, how to this new economy can be created, and more.
- Land a Green Collar Job "Want to get paid for protecting the planet?" asks the American Solar Energy Association.. and then proceeds to tell you how to do it. Tips, articles, a job board, and links to other green job listing sites.
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