By Mark Faram
Times staff writer
Wondering where you are in your career? Need to know what you have to do to get ahead?
Wonder no more. A Navy Web site soon will tell you where you are in the areas that matter, and point the way to what you need to do to advance – all plotted on a clickable graphic. And, if you’re thinking about switching jobs, the site will show you alternate career paths and lay out ways to make it happen. 
The Dallas Morning News was interested in how SkillsNET came to be, and what exactly, were the key ingredients to the company’s success. After a one-on-one interview with SkillsNET CEO, Michael Brown, the DMN left with a better idea of what SkillsNET has to offer and how employers can benefit from their technology.
Taconite University – or TacU – was one of five Targeted Industry Partnerships (TIP’s) initiated by the Minnesota State Legislature and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system.
This particular TIP was aimed at several educational, training, workforce, and communications objectives relating to the mining industry in northeastern Minnesota:
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WASHINGTON – Over the next 18 months, more than 50,000 Sailors will determine how the Fleet of the future is trained and what its enlisted force needs to know to compete for advancement.
The Navy has chartered a complete, bottom-up review of its enlisted Sailors’ occupational standards (OCCSTDS) to get an accurate measure of what Sailors do to support the mission. The data will be used to improve training and detailing, help design manning for ships of the future, and ensure the Navy is ready to meet future challenges.
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State officials and local businesses hope a new online database will lead to a better-trained work force.
The Hawaii Skills Community Web site allows employers to input skills required for certain jobs, helping them to customize job descriptions, figure out which skills are most critical and identify where their current employees may need more training.
A statewide work-force program has teamed with the Department of Education and the University of Hawai’i in an effort to boost the state’s skilled work force.
The partnership with Hawai’i Skills Community will compile data on employers’ work-force needs and provide results to educators in hopes of helping to modify or develop relevant curriculum.
The SkillsNET™ Skills Community Portal is essentially a community of practice that enables multiple diverse web applications to be combined into a “single view” portal – known as the Skills Community. The Skills Community is integrated with other online workforce development and e-Learning applications through the use of a linkage protocol. This ensures that any combination of internal and external web sites and services can be brought together.
