Career & Skills · Free guided workspace
Learn-and-Earn Directory
Investigate apprenticeships and training support through verified starting points.
- Make
- An opportunity comparison and contact plan.
- Working time
- 30–45 minutes · estimate
- Start with
- A location and a trade or field to investigate.
Learn
Build on what you can show.
Registered Apprenticeships combine paid work experience, instruction and a credential. Individual sponsors set opportunity requirements. Use a discovery directory to locate the sponsor, then check the actual opportunity.
Record pay, costs, schedule and eligibility only when a source supplies them. Ask what is paid, who employs the apprentice and what credential the program awards. A directory entry is not an offer.
Worked example and review
Use the fictional example to inspect the fields and export formats.
This is a discovery record. It deliberately leaves sponsor-specific claims unknown.
Apply
Make your working record.
Find two possible programs, verify their actual sponsors and write one specific question for each.
Work privately in this tab. Download a copy before leaving; refreshing clears unsaved entries. This tool sends no form entries to the District or a third-party AI service. Use service labels and non-sensitive examples where possible.
Keep an editable copy.
Text is useful for reading and editing; CSV opens as a field log; JSON can reopen this workspace later.
Show evidence / Reflect
Review the work, then choose a next step.
- Sponsor and source are identifiable.
- Pay and cost statements have a recorded basis or remain unknown.
- The next action is a question or application step through the actual provider.
Reflect: What must the sponsor confirm before you could compare this opportunity fairly?
Record your observation and next action in the reflection fields above. Estimated activity time and examples have not been independently validated with learners.
Next step
Continue the learning.
Sources and further reading
These original activities use the source pages below. Source review: October 31, 2026. External programs may have their own fees and prerequisites.
- Apprenticeship.gov career seekers ↗Webpage text inspected; linked programs and individual openings require separate verification
- U.S. Department of Labor: American Job Centers ↗Webpage text inspected; linked programs and individual openings require separate verification