JobScout is a online platform that teaches essential internet skills needed to find a job, such as using a browser, preparing resumes and cover letters, and learning to navigate online job applications and interviews. It provides lessons, badges to incentivize learning, and tools to search for jobs, maintain resumes and schedules. It also offers analytics dashboards to monitor user progress. The platform is available both online and through mobile apps, and is designed to be accessible to all users, including first-time internet users.

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jobscout Over 60 million Americans do not know
how to use the Internet. JobScout teaches
the essential Internet skills needed to find
a job in today’s online marketplace.
Take Lessons. Earn Badges. Find Work.
JobScout is designed to be a valuable resource for all users, from the first time Internet user to the
Internet savvy, allowing them to independently manage the job search and application process.! !
At the center of the JobScout application is a results-oriented, motivating approach to learning how to
use the Internet and find work online. JobScout provides a cost-effective, data-rich and customizable
tool for organizations providing educational opportunities and employment support.! !
JobScout Informs & Guides
by Using a Self-Guided
Approach, Freeing Up
Resources !
JobScout’s lessons use simple
language, screenshots and step-by-
step processes to teach users
practical skills they need to
navigate the web.
JobScout Accurately
Monitors User Progress
Through Web & Mobile !
JobScout’s data analytics
dashboard has an easy-to-use
interface that allows organizations
to get the metrics they need on
users and usage instantaneously.
JobScout Improves
Outcomes with Effective
Self-Management Tools !
JobScout allows users to
manage their entire job search
right from our site. We take the
guesswork out of where to look,
how to craft a resume and how
to manage the process.

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JobScout provides an easy-to-use
dashboard.
JobScout’s dashboard was developed to ask
a series of simple questions to get the user
started. Feedback from librarians, educators
and those in the education and workforce
development spaces has been critical to its
design.!
JobScout provides a robust set
of Internet Skills core lesson
content.
The lessons range from how to use a browser
to how to prepare for a job interview using
online resources. JobScout currently has 39
lessons, where users can earn badges upon
their successful completion.! The job search begins right on the
Users can search for jobs through JobScout’s
job search tool, powered by several services,
including job aggregator SimplyHired.com.!
Gamification is used to incentivize and
create a useful, educational experience.
JobScout uses games like word jumbles, picture ID and
fill in the blanks to reinforce content learned in the
lessons. Users even have the ability to compare their
earned badges with other users through the JobScout
social network.
JobScout uses a “red light, green light” system
to let users know when to review content and
when to move forward.

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JobScouters can track their progress online or
on their mobile phone.
The “One-Stop” Job Shop offers JobScouters a full set of
integrated tools to search for a job, save job listings, send out a
resume and custom cover letter and maintain a schedule of
interviews, allowing the JobScouter to manage the application
process right through the site. !
The iOS and Android applications elegantly
mirror the JobScout online platform.
JobScout uses icons to indicate
actions that the user should take.
Track User Progress with COMPASS
JobScout’s COMPASS data analytics system allows customers to track the
progress and usage of JobScouters within their organization. With their
own private dashboard, their organization can track metrics such as: ! !
➡ The number of users you have!
➡ 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 logins, so customers can track
your users whether they are using a computer directly from your
organization or from the JobScout mobile application. Know how JobScout
is adding value to your organization through COMPASS, available with the
JobScout CONNECT, CONNECT PLUS, PRO and PREMIERE packages.!

4. See How JobScout Stacks Up Against the Competition
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Customizable Lessons ✓ ✓
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User Focused Design ✓
Provide JobScout 24/7. !
Remote access and the free
mobile app means that
your users can learn to use
the Internet or use our job
seeking tools from
anywhere.
Attract More Users. !
JobScout attracts users of
all walks of life, Boomers
and Millennials alike.
JobScout accommodates
the Internet newbie to the
Internet pro.
We Help Promote. !
Spread the word with free
marketing materials and
programming kits included
with every subscription and
partnership.
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