Search official opportunities
Use the official finder and sponsor pages to create a focused, current opportunity list.
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.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.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
A search list is a set of leads until each opening, location, sponsor, and requirement is checked.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
Choose occupation, location, schedule, and acceptable commute or remote constraints before searching.
- 2
Use Apprenticeship.gov’s finder and record the listing title, occupation, sponsor, location, date, and application route.
- 3
Search adjacent occupations and local workforce contacts if the first query returns no suitable opening.
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.
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.
Your deliverable
A six-lead search log with source links, filters, current date, and a next verification step.
Watch for this
Assuming no search result means no pathway exists or using an old social post as the current application route.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
The list can be refreshed and each lead has a safe, official next check.
Quick knowledge check
Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.
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