The jobscout executive team will be presenting their online social media platform called jobscout at the San Francisco Startup Showcase on May 30. Jobscout is designed to teach essential internet skills and job hunting techniques through interactive online activities and games to help unemployed Californians find employment. It has launched in several California counties and libraries to provide resources for the digitally disadvantaged. The presentation at the Startup Showcase will feature jobscout and 17 other local tech startups.

1. EVENT ADVISORY
Contact:
Josh Bradley
bradley@discovertrail.com
(415) 735-4035
May 30, 2012
JOBSCOUT TEAM PRESENTING AT
SAN FRANCISCO STARTUP SHOWCASE
Internet Skills And Employment Education Program
Featured at Tech Cocktail’s West Coast Event
San Francisco, Calif. – The jobscout executive team will be presenting at the
Mighty 119 on Wednesday, May 30, for Tech Cocktail’s San Francisco Mixer
featuring over a dozen local startups in the technology industry, each
showcasing their designs in front of investors, bloggers, entrepreneurs and other
tech enthusiasts. This time, 17 up-and-coming Bay Area start-ups will be
featured, including jobscout.
jobscout is an online social media platform designed to get Californians back to
work through teaching essential Internet skills and job-hunting techniques. By
using social gaming and standards of the web, jobscout creates a safe and
accessible entry point for users to teach themselves digital literacy skills.
Each jobscout user assumes the role of a "scout" on a digital discovery “trail”
while absorbing and retaining useful Internet skills. In the end, users implement
their skills insert themselves in today’s technological market and find
employment. It's an interactive journey through the key skills and processes of
job hunting, including fundamentals such as searching job sites, resume writing,
submitting online applications and peer-to-peer networking.
Through the use of game design, jobscout teaches basic digital literacy skills by
engaging users in self-paced online activities that focus on internet
competencies, assisting users in mastering these skills to apply online for
employment and allowing other users to network on and offline.
While boasting a custom resume builder and built-in job search function,
jobscout users can earn badges for completing lessons on everything from
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2. Internet browsers, to how to create social network profiles and use them to the
fullest extent.
After launching in December 2011 with participation from the San Jose Public
Library, the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, the Yolo County Library and the
County of Los Angeles Public Library, the addition of these latest two
jurisdictions means jobscout will be a much-needed resource for the
unemployed digital non-natives throughout California and the nation.
The Mighty 119 is located at 119 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103. The
program is scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m.
About jobscout
jobscout is the first in a series of online learning tools based on the Technology
Resources and Internet Learning (TRAIL) technology, which is designed to
teach fundamental digital literacy skills and help people apply them to aspects
of their work, education, civic involvement and health. jobscout uses game
design to teach and reinforce basic digital literacy skills particularly for those
populations traditionally disenfranchised by the digital divide by 1) engaging
users in self-paced online activities that focus on digital literacy competencies,
2) assisting users in mastering these skills in order to apply online for a job and
3) enabling users to network on and offline.
www.myjobscout.org
About the California State Library
The California State Library advises, consults with, and provides technical
assistance to California’s public libraries. It directs state and federal funds to
support local public libraries and statewide library programs, and services.
http://www.library.ca.gov/
About the Link Americas Foundation
The LINK AMERICAS Foundation fosters collaborative initiatives demonstrating
the value of Technology Serving Humanity in the areas of Life, Information,
Nature, Knowledge (LINK). The foundation supports educational,
environmental and social development, and research projects that further LINK
objectives by promoting strategic alliances for systemic and sustained change.
http://www.linkamericas.org/
*State of California Employment Development Department Labor Market
Information, 2012; http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/