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iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

Search 80,000+ tech jobs. Dice.com has business analyst, software engineer, QA jobs and many more. Manage your tech job search and IT career on Dice.

Although there are many misconceptions and stereotypes about internships, your first internship is an experience that truly paves the path for your career.

Although there are many misconceptions and stereotypes about internships, your first internship is an experience that truly paves the path for your career.

"If any college student asked me what career would most assure thirty years of steady, well-paying employment," said Ross, "I would respond, 'cybersecurity.'"

Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) is leading a coalition of technology-based employers to find solutions aimed at closing Minnesota's IT skills gap. There are an estimated 2,700 IT jobs in the Twin Cities alone, that remain unfilled - the IT Action Alliance is working to address this gap. The alliance is divided into workgroups to address 4 key objectives: ■ Launch a ten-year marketing campaign to deliver high-quality candidates for every open IT position ■ Increase re-employment of displaced IT workers through training opportunities ■ Utilize internships as a tool to place two and four-year college graduates ■ Promote IT careers in grades 6-12 to increase the number of high school students entering post-secondary programs.

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute affiliated with the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands. Core Research: The Center conducts research in three core areas with the goal of better aligning education and training with workforce and labor market demand: jobs, skills, and people. ■ JOBS: Our first research focus is on the historic and future labor market supply and labor market demand for education, with secondary interest in occupation and industrial clusters at the national and sub-national levels. ■ SKILLS: Our second research focus is on connecting 21st Century competencies with education, training, and applied learning pathways. ■ PEOPLE: Our third research focus is on identifying the effect of changing job requirements and skill demand on students and the current workforce, with a focus on varying degrees of access and success by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Public Policy The Center seeks to inform and educate federal, state, and local policymakers and stakeholders on ways to better align education and training with labor market demand and qualifications. It also seeks to create tools that enable decision makers to access and customize the data to allow for national, state, and sub-state analysis.

Cyber Security Education Consortium The Cyber Security Education Consortium (CSEC) is a cohesive partnership of community colleges and career and technology centers in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas, and the University of Tulsa, which serves as the principal training entity and mentor to the two-year institutions.

To earn The National Career Readiness Certificate you must take three WorkKeys assessments--Applied Mathematics, Locating Information, and Reading for Information.

When it comes to educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, (ISC)² is acknowledged as the global, not-for-profit leader.

Join Microsoft, educators and industry experts for a free monthly webinar series designed to help educators and administrators learn how to help students meet college and career goals.

Minnesota's FastTRAC Adult Career Pathways Program, a collaborate effort under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), was included in Vice President Joe Biden's report today to President Barack Obama as an innovative model for meeting the needs of businesses in the state and serving individuals who are educationally underprepared for lifelong careers.

Programming is one of the most valuable skills you can pick up in these modern times, whether for career prospects or to stretch your brain and create something awesome. If you're just getting started on your coding journey, here are ten tips and resources to set you off on the right foot.

Positively Minnesota, Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)

An interactive tool that compares industries with certain topical areas in education.

What the Tool Provides The Graduate Employment Outcomes tool helps Minnesota's students, job seekers, career counselors, educators, and policy makers better understand the connections between postsecondary education choices and job outcomes. The tool displays key aspects of employment, including: Wages : What hourly pay can a graduate expect 12 and 24 months after graduation?

This year's college graduates are earning more than they expected to in their first jobs out of school. But they weren't expecting very much. Members of the class of 2014 who accepted job offers took positions with median earnings of $50,050, above their median expectations of $48,890, according to new data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a career-services and recruiting industry group.