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Local News - Local News - July 05, 2012
Workforce council launches career awareness initiative
Inspire Washington website set up to serve as venue for interaction

By Kim Crompton
Of the Journal of Business

The Spokane Area Workforce Development Council has launched a career awareness initiative named Inspire Washington that aims to help job seekers, students, and teachers connect online with businesses, career professionals, and volunteers.

The council is using Spokane and Eastern Washington as a test site for the initiative, but the effort "will continue to evolve," with the hope that it will become a statewide program, says Rob Crow, a project team manager with the organization. T...


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