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Career Resources
Planning Your Career:
Career Path Adventures
Determine, explore, and narrow your career path options through "choose-your-own-adventure" type navigation. Find self-help exercises and advice along the way.
Next Step Career Planning
Go through the major steps in making a career decision by exploring your talents, interests, skills and values. The tools here will help you through your decision-making process.
BC WorkInfoNet Youth Site
Work and Recruiting Occupations and Career Learning, Education and Training
Labor Market Info and Outlook Self-employment Workplace Issues and Supports Financial.
TypeFocus
Offers clients a range of online personality applications and organization development tools. Corporate clients can choose from simple add-on
options to wholly customized modules seamlessly integrated into existing programs.
Youth
Employment Strategy
As part of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy, the Youth Employment Information website is a unique resource for youth wishing to make the transition from school to work. This site contains all the information on work
experience and learning opportunities, career choices and planning, job search techniques and
labor market information.
Drake Beam Morin-Canada (DBM)
A worldwide professional services firm that offers strategic human resource solutions in employee selection, development, retention and transition.
Researching Occupations Theme
Here are a number of links to Internet sites which contain information and/or other links related to the specific theme of researching occupations. Students can find job descriptions/profiles, salaries, educational requirements, links to professional organizations for a wide range of
occupations. Also, there are links to more general occupational information such as employment and
labor market trends and occupational outlooks. There is at least one link to a lesson plan incorporating occupational research.
EXPLORING CAREER OPTIONS:
Job Futures (National Edition) Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)
Find the latest information about the Canadian job market, including the economic
forecast for 211 occupational groups and on-the-job testimonials of recent graduates from 155 different education levels and training programs.
Alberta Occupational Profiles
Each of the 514 occupational profiles accessible on this site has in-depth information on a wide variety of topics. Browse them in alphabetical order or as they relate to specific industries.
National Occupation Classification (NOC) and Career Handbook - (HRDC)
A powerful search engine allows you to find a description for any occupation in Canada. Each description includes duties, qualifications, related skills and interests, working conditions, and more.
Career Gateway - Occupational descriptions
A web directory of major information sources for specific careers, such as accounting, biology, engineering, and health. This is a great place to visit to find
relevant information about a field that already interests you.
JobProfiles.com
Career information with a personal touch. real people discuss what they do every day and what they like and
don't like about their jobs. Some of the career descriptions are hard to find anywhere else.
EXPLORING TRAINING OPTIONS:
Campus Program.com Canada Edition
Find out where the program you are interested in is offered. Browse the categories and
subcategories of this Web directory for links to the program on the websites of schools where it is given.
OTHER CAREER TOOLS:
Canada career Consortium Products
Of the many products developed by the CCC, one deserves a special mention here. Canada Prospects is a webzine that young people will love because
it's upbeat and full of great ideas.
Career Awareness (HRDC)
Contains resources to help you plan your future and make better career decisions. These resources are aimed at Canadian youth as well as adults, and
many are either available on the Web or can be ordered online.
Essential Skills Web Site (HRDC)
In many areas of
today's job market, certain skills have become essential and are
required of everyone: reading comprehension, written communication, and analytical thinking. This site illustrates how important these skills are in a number of trades and occupations.
Salary Expert
Choose one of over 100 occupations and compare how salaries vary across North America. The impressive report, available for each major city, includes salary average and range, potential earnings in bonuses and benefits, and a buying power comparison.
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