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Labor Department

Announces New

Apprenticeship Web Portal

The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the
launch of a new digital platform, Apprenticeship.gov.
This innovative web portal will help employers publicize
available apprenticeships.

It features an Apprenticeship Finder tool that offers
career seekers a platform to search for apprenticeships by improving access to apprenticeship opportunities
by city, state and occupation, as well as connects job that enable more Americans to obtain relevant skills and
seekers to high-skilled, high-paying careers. high-paying jobs.
In a press release announcing the endeavor, the NAHB Chairman Randy Noel attended last month’s
Labor Department said that the “new Apprenticeship White House event announcing the executive order to
Finder tool will not only make it easier for career seekers promote workforce development and pledged that
to find apprenticeship opportunities, it will also help NAHB and the Home Builders Institute (HBI) would train
employers promote apprenticeships across new or 50,000 new workers over the next five years for careers in
nontraditional industries where apprenticeships may be the construction trades.
less common.” For more information, contact Alexis Moch at 800-
This effort supports President Trump’s recent 368-5242 x8407.
Executive Order Expanding Apprenticeships in America NAHB AUGUST 2018

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