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Career Bridge portal to relaunch with mobile‑friendly design, new tools and enhanced outcomes data
Summary
The Washington state Career Bridge career and education portal will relaunch in June with a mobile friendly interface, a digital portfolio, an improved career quiz and prototype AI features; the portal lists about 6,500 postsecondary programs and has shown employment and earnings outcomes for thousands of programs since 2009.
Marina Parr of the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board previewed a modernized Career Bridge portal to the committee, saying the site will relaunch in June with a mobile friendly design and several new tools for job seekers, students and counselors. "Career Bridge launched in 02/2009... we have 6,500 Washington post secondary programs on Career Bridge," Parr said, noting the public portal currently aggregates registered apprenticeships, community and technical college programs, private career school programs and four‑year institution programs.
Parr said Career Bridge has provided transparent completion, employment and earnings outcomes for postsecondary programs and has averaged about 6 million annual page views. The modernization will add a digital portfolio for saved searches, a shorter and longer version of a career‑interest quiz and a redesigned, mobile‑first user interface.
Parr also previewed work to link occupational data to program outcomes. She said Employment Security is collecting employer occupational data and that Washington was among the first states to require employers to provide job title information. That work will enable Career Bridge to report whether program completers worked in the occupations they trained for, the presenter said.
The Workforce Training Board is also testing a prototype conversational AI tool with Campus Evolve and the College Success Foundation to help students navigate program choices; Parr said the prototype will be piloted with a small group of students.
Why it matters: Career Bridge is the state's central public portal for comparing postsecondary programs and seeing program‑level employment outcomes; the modernization aims to make the tool far more user friendly for students, incumbent workers and counselors and to increase transparency about program‑to‑occupation outcomes.
Ending: Parr said the board appreciates legislative funding for the modernization and expects usage to rise once the site is relaunched in June.
