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CONTACT Josh Bradley T: 415.735.4035 E: [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INNOVATIVE ONLINE EDUCATION PLATFORM ROLLS OUT RESOURCE TOOLS IN SAN DIEGO PUBLIC AND COUNTY LIBRARIES JobScout, the Internet Skills Education Program For Job Seekers, Partners with Over 65 San Diego Libraries Adding to the Hundreds of Branches Statewide San Francisco, Calif. (January 2, 2013) - JobScout, the online learning platform that teaches people the basic Internet skills and job-hunting techniques needed to find a job in today's online marketplace, is now partnered with all San Diego Public Library and the San Diego County Library to bring digital literacy skills to the far south of California. Seed funded by the California State Library, in partnership with Califa, the Link Americas Foundation and JobScout parent company, TRAIL, the platform's formula is simple: users take lessons, earn badges for completing those lessons and apply those lessons to find work. JobScout's mission is challenging: the platform's goal is to teach people how to use the Internet by using the Internet. It's not your traditional startup. It may be hard to imagine, in the wake of the IPOs of social networking companies like Facebook, and the advances in devices like the iPhone 5 that allow people to connect to the Internet, that in 2013, one in five Americans, that's 60 million people in the United States, still do not use the Internet due to lack of access or knowledge. JobScout teaches the essential Internet skills needed to find a job in today's online marketplace. At first glance, this may seem elementary. There is a focus in the online education space on continuing education and opening up the university, giving users access to college courses or advanced computer skills, like coding. As our CEO Christina Gagnier puts it, "Our users need to master what a URL is before they can even think about the possibility of coding in HTML." Like other online learning platforms, JobScout uses gamification of its educational materials to engage users in a fully guided process of learning everything about navigating the Internet. The platform provides over 30 lessons to users, ranging from "Introduction to Internet Browsing" to "Using the Internet to Prepare for an Interview." For each

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CONTACTJosh Bradley

T: 415.735.4035E: [email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INNOVATIVE ONLINE EDUCATION PLATFORM ROLLS OUT RESOURCE TOOLS IN SAN DIEGO PUBLIC AND COUNTY LIBRARIESJobScout, the Internet Skills Education Program For Job Seekers, Partners with Over 65

San Diego Libraries Adding to the Hundreds of Branches Statewide

San Francisco, Calif. (January 2, 2013) - JobScout, the online learning platform that teaches people the basic Internet skills and job-hunting techniques needed to find a job in today's online marketplace, is now partnered with all San Diego Public Library and the San Diego County Library to bring digital literacy skills to the far south of California.

Seed funded by the California State Library, in partnership with Califa, the Link Americas Foundation and JobScout parent company, TRAIL, the platform's formula is simple: users take lessons, earn badges for completing those lessons and apply those lessons to find work. JobScout's mission is challenging: the platform's goal is to teach people how to use the Internet by using the Internet. It's not your traditional startup.

It may be hard to imagine, in the wake of the IPOs of social networking companies like Facebook, and the advances in devices like the iPhone 5 that allow people to connect to the Internet, that in 2013, one in five Americans, that's 60 million people in the United States, still do not use the Internet due to lack of access or knowledge.

JobScout teaches the essential Internet skills needed to find a job in today's online marketplace. At first glance, this may seem elementary. There is a focus in the online education space on continuing education and opening up the university, giving users access to college courses or advanced computer skills, like coding. As our CEO Christina Gagnier puts it, "Our users need to master what a URL is before they can even think about the possibility of coding in HTML."

Like other online learning platforms, JobScout uses gamification of its educational materials to engage users in a fully guided process of learning everything about navigating the Internet. The platform provides over 30 lessons to users, ranging from "Introduction to Internet Browsing" to "Using the Internet to Prepare for an Interview." For each lesson a user completes, they earn a badge. The platform provides a ResumeBuilder allowing users to create fill-in-the-blank resumes, a job search function and the ability to apply to jobs and manage job applications directly from the site.

JobScout is always free for users and available online. A JobScout native application for Android is also being developed, set to launch in 2013. The platform will also launch a version in Spanish in 2013, a high-priority need to address the growing employment and education needs of the Spanish speaking population, particularly in California. JobScout has been implemented in the County of Los Angeles Public Library since December 2011.

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