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Our StoryJobScout began as a partnership with the California State Library. Now in over 900 libraries, school systems and community centers, JobScout partners with school districts to better prepare today’s youth for the jobs of tomorrow and to provide digital literacy tools and support for parents as their children receive a 21st century education.

JobScout Helps School Systems

jobscoutDigital Literacy Skills for District-Driven Career Readiness & Meeting LCFF State Priorities for LCAP

Testimonials

JobScout provides important foundational knowledge for users to begin assimilating themselves into today’s fast-paced digital age. Providing users with the proper skills and tools, the platform attempts to put all users on a level playing field so that no individual is technologically “left behind” and is able to stay current with the evolving online marketplace.

- Jay Nath, Chief Innovation Officer,

City of San Francisco

JobScout will serve as California’s foray into tackling digital literacy in the State of California.

- The Huffington Post

ENHANCE career readiness programs & services with online support

EMPOWER future jobseekers with the skills to champion the new economy

USE metrics to evaluate the success of their programs

50% of today’s jobs require technology skills, yet 1 in 5 Americans does not know how to use the Internet. JobScout teaches people how to use and navigate the Internet.

JobScout provides digital literacy training in an applied setting - users are more incentivized to learn the skills since they matter to them.

Schools need to measure the effectiveness of their programs and the activities of their users so that they can best drive programming decisions.

JobScout provides school systems with digital literacy curriculum, aligned with California’s Basic Digital Literacy Skills Framework.

No young adult left behind: With the digital literacy skills learned through JobScout, young adults are empowered to understand and think about next steps after high school.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t fund it. Philanthropic, state and federal funders want to see quantified results. JobScout provides these metrics to meet the LCFF State Priorities.

Young people face a 25% unemployment rate. JobScout gives them the tools to find jobs today.

JobScout focuses on networking & professional communication skills.

Schools are tied to their local communities & JobScout provides local impact.

JobScout teaches the essential Internet skills needed to find a job in today’s online marketplace. Currently used by the Los Angeles County Office of Education, JobScout can help your school system provide online learning for high skill, high wage and high growth jobs as required the Career Pathways Trust fund. JobScout can also empower parents with relevant digital literacy skills that will help them in their lives while giving them the skills to support their children’s digital learning progress.

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COMPASS Data Analytics

for School Systems

JobScout’s COMPASS data analytics system allows school systems to track the progress and usage of JobScouters within their organization. With their own private dashboard, school systems can track metrics such as:

✓ Number of users linked to your organization

✓ Lessons taken

✓ Badges earned

✓ Number of jobs searched

✓ Number of resumes submitted

✓ Number of jobs applied to

✓ Number of interviews that have been scheduled.

This data is collected based on application log ins, so customers can track users whether they are using a computer directly from the school or from the JobScout mobile application.

Beyond data analytics, we a l s o offe r w h i te - l a b e l products that co-brand with your school with your own d o m a i n a n d p r e m i u m services where we create custom lessons for your community’s unique needs.

JobScout & The LCFF State Priorities

With schools now needing to set performance measures of how Local Control and Accountability Plans meet the LCFF State Priorities, JobScout provides an out of the box solution to both supporting student outcomes and measuring success. JobScout has been successful in its statewide use across California with diverse groups of learners, socioeconomically disadvantaged students, English learners and students with disabilities.

How JobScout Meets the LCFF Areas of State Priority

✓ Parental Involvement

LCFF mandates that LCAP’s include plans on how schools will increase parental involvement with their pupil’s education. With the transition to one-to-one device policies and online systems, digital literacy learning is a primary way that parents can learn the skills they need to support their child’s learning and interact more with the school and the education process.

✓ Implementation of Academic Content & Common Core Standards

JobScout can help English learners move towards Common Core requirements in computer, career and technical education. This is an important part of Common Core for all students.

✓ Pupil Achievement

JobScout’s ability to be customized allows school districts to create paths to internship and learning opportunities about career options. These experiences can help students to set goals, enhance college applications and increase college acceptance rates.

✓ Pupil Engagement

JobScout helps focus learners on the bigger picture and the opportunities that lie beyond their education once they earn their diploma. JobScout’s data analytics capabilities can help school districts keep a pulse on their learners once they leave the classroom.

✓ Pupil Access to a Broad Course of Study

JobScout helps to supplement career and technical education. Through one platform, students can learn the skills they need to find internships and other work experience while in school and once they graduate. It is an effective and affordable solution that can be used any device and at any time.

✓ Other Pupil Outcomes

JobScout teaches an essential life skill and helps students set goals, helping to get students towards graduation and a productive life path.

JobScout can be integrated into English learning curriculum and easily be part of summer and after school programs focused on achievement of digital literacy skills and career and technical education requirements.

JobScout’sCustomization

for Career Pathways

JobScout has created a unique opportunity for school districts to customize the tool for Career Pathways fund applications. These offerings can include:

✓ Site level access to student data through COMPASS

✓ Completion certificates for students and a Scout Master badge for completion of the JobScout curriculum

✓ Brand customization & a custom domain

✓ Data analytics around federal internship opportunities

✓ Customization of the ResumeBuilder tool

✓ Lesson plan resources for teachers

✓ Individualized student reports.

JobScout allows flexibility t o e n s u r e t h a t y o u r programming can align with t h e C a r e e r P a t h w a y s guidelines.

JobScout for Students & ParentsEasy to Use DashboardJobScout’s dashboard asks a series of simple questions to get the user started and is easy to navigate.

Internet Skills Core Lesson Content

Lessons range from how to use a browser to preparing for an interview by using the Internet. Other lesson content includes Gmail, LinkedIn, contract and temporary work.

ResumeBuilderUsers fill-in-the-blanks and create a resume that they can save, print and email.

Internal Social Network

Users get the opportunity to collaborate with other users in the job search process.

Job Search

Users can search for jobs p o w e r e d b y s e v e r a l j o b aggregator websites.

“One-Stop” Job Shop

A full set of integrated job search management tools to help the user create a resume, search for a job and manage applications directly from the JobScout site.

Offline Entry Support for JobScout from Schools

Users can receive in-person support from teachers, librarians or support staff in schools.

Executive Order S-06-09 addresses digital literacy skills for the workforce. The California Department of Education is a member of the Leadership Advisory Committee for implementation of the Order (http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=12393).  The Career Pathways grant process requires that applicants leverage existing regional, state and local investments. JobScout easily meets that requirements, having been a statewide program for over two years.

JobScout was built by TRAIL with funding from the state. JobScout complements  regional workforce skills programs designed for Career Pathways Grants. The new ICT model anchor standards address digital literacy and career planning/management as knowledge and skills students must know. JobScout lessons are mapped to the California Basic Digital Literacy Skills Framework. The platform provides assessment tools for students and analytics for educators.

JobScout & Career Pathways Grants

For More Information:

Christina Gagnier

T: 909.576.1411

E: gagnier@discovertrail.com