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Khan Academy: Navigate Your Career

Last featured in the 07-14-2017 Scout Report, Khan Academy's Navigate Your Career unit continues to be a great resource for those preparing to enter the job market. Since this resource was featured, Khan Academy has added many more units to their Careers section, offering additional guidance for job seekers. Well known for its instructional videos in mathematics and science, Khan Academy also...

https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/career-cont...
Library Journal

Librarians, archivists, and other information specialists may already know about the electronic version of Library Journal (the oldest independent national library publication), but those not in the know will want to take a look at this site. With each issue containing dozens of articles on numerous facets on the operation of libraries (and future trends), the site is really an indispensable...

https://www.libraryjournal.com/
National Endowment for Financial Education

The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) is dedicated "to improving the financial well-being of all Americans." Their website is a veritable cornucopia of resources around this very subject, including help for high school students, consumers, and educators. A good place to start is the "Help for Consumers" area. Here visitors can use the "Smart About Money" resources to get practical...

https://www.nefe.org/
O*Net OnLine

This is a fine website dedicated to career exploration and the art and science of finding a new job. Interestingly, it doesn't list available jobs, rather it gives the visitor the tools to find where the jobs are, or aren't, what jobs are up-and-coming, and which are dying out. This site helps jobseekers, or students looking for a career path, look for careers that play to their skills,...

https://www.onetonline.org/
Textile World

Textile World is a website for textile industry professionals, manufacturers, investors, as well as those who would like to offer students, young or old, a glimpse into the world of textile production. This website is the perfect vehicle to see all that the textile industry encompasses. One look at the menu on the left hand side of the page informs visitors of several different areas of textile...

https://www.textileworld.com/
This Old House

Summer certainly isn't a bad time to start a new home (or apartment) improvement project, whether it be a gut rehab or just fixing a wobbly toilet seat. Fortunately, the This Old House television program website is a good place to look for a wide range of information about just such endeavors. While the site certainly has a number of advertisements on it, there is still a good deal of very...

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/
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