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Search official opportunities

Use the official finder and sponsor pages to create a focused, current opportunity list.

About 31 minutes Finish with a concrete deliverable
Colorado Department of Labor & EmploymentRegistered Apprenticeship 101YouTube
Course primer

Registered Apprenticeship 101

From Colorado Department of Labor & Employment. Watch here or open it on YouTube .

During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Search official opportunities.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a six-lead search log with source links, filters, current date, and a next verification step.
Before you begin

What this lesson is really solving.

Use the official finder and sponsor pages to create a focused, current opportunity list. This is lesson 2 because later decisions depend on a six-lead search log with source links, filters, current date, and a next verification step. A search list is a set of leads until each opening, location, sponsor, and requirement is checked. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.

Why this works

Understand the idea before touching the steps.

A search list is a set of leads until each opening, location, sponsor, and requirement is checked.

Do this

Follow these steps in order.

Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.

  1. 1

    Choose occupation, location, schedule, and acceptable commute or remote constraints before searching.

  2. 2

    Use Apprenticeship.gov’s finder and record the listing title, occupation, sponsor, location, date, and application route.

  3. 3

    Search adjacent occupations and local workforce contacts if the first query returns no suitable opening.

Worked example

See the standard in context.

Ava searches two nearby occupations, records a sponsor’s official page, and calls the local workforce contact when one listing has no opening date. The learner saves a six-lead search log with source links, filters, current date, and a next verification step and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.

Quality check

Inspect before you move on.

  • The finished work visibly includes a six-lead search log with source links, filters, current date, and a next verification step.
  • You tested the work against this common failure: Assuming no search result means no pathway exists or using an old social post as the current application route.
  • Another person could verify this mastery standard: The list can be refreshed and each lead has a safe, official next check.
Make it real

Your deliverable

A six-lead search log with source links, filters, current date, and a next verification step.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Assuming no search result means no pathway exists or using an old social post as the current application route.

You’re ready when

Prove it—don’t just recognize it.

The list can be refreshed and each lead has a safe, official next check.

Objective evidence · 3 questions

Quick knowledge check

Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.

Not yet passed

This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.

1Which action belongs in the recommended process for “Search official opportunities”?
2Which result is the clearest evidence that this lesson’s work is complete?
3Which choice matches the failure this lesson specifically warns against?
0 of 3 answeredEach question measures the action, evidence, or failure condition taught above.
Useful for this course

Tools, templates, and references

Opportunity comparison plannerCompare sponsors, pay, mentorship, instruction, credentials, and application steps.
Check current detailsReferences reviewed September 9, 2026. Lesson exercises are editorial synthesis; official rules come from the linked sources.
Apprenticeship.gov — Career seekersApprenticeship.gov — Apprenticeship Job FinderApprenticeship.gov — What is a Registered Apprenticeship Program?
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One check remains

Pass the knowledge check above first.

Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.

Go to the knowledge check