Exploring Careers

Where Do I Begin?

• Canadian Careers
  Explore this site to find online interest and skill tests.
• Career Cruising
  Check out the Career Matchmaker and explore detailed career information. (Ask a staff member for the password to this site.)
• Career Manual
  You have been put in charge of your own career. Managing it will be a lifelong process. Choose work that will be compatible with your own unique skills, knowledge, personality, and interests.
• Career Navigator and Quizzes
  Learn more about your abilities and learning styles.
• Employment and Community Resources
  Scroll down the page to a variety of union webpages plus other employment resources.
• Job Hunter's Bible
  This page offers several career and personality tests.
• Service Canada Training & Careers
  This site is designed to help people explore their career and work options.
• Surfing for Work
  This online tutorial offers labour market and job search information.
• Work BC
  The Government of British Columbia's source for labour market information.

What Are My Choices?

• Alberta Occupational Profiles
  Detailed descriptions of hundreds of occupational possibilities.
• BC Industrial Profiles
  This site explores labour market sectors in the Lower Mainland and Southwest BC.
• BC Work Futures
  BC Occupational Forecast.
• Canada IT
  Your gateway to the Canadian Information Technology industry.
• Canadian Forces
  Click on Careers to explore options in the Navy, Army, Airforce and Reserves.
• Canadian Sector Councils
  Consult Sector Councils to learn more about your industry.
• Careers in Construction
  Dozens of careers to choose from.
• Careers in Fort McMurray, AB
  Research before you pack.
• Careers in Oil & Gas
  A Virtual Career Fair about the Oil Patch.
• eHow
  Find out how to become a freelance writer, paralegal, midwife, and more.....
• Entry Level Jobs
  Learn about jobs that require little or no training or previous work experience.
• Essential Skills
  This site gives detailed information on the skills required for specific occupational profiles.
• Job Futures
  Occupational forecasts provided by the Canadian government.
• Lower Mainland Industrial Profiles
  A series of sector booklets.
• NOC Codes
  National Occupational Classification: detailed descriptions of Canadian occupations.
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
  The industries on this site are classified according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada of 2007.
• Vector
  A Virtual Resource Centre.
• Wages and Salaries
  Find out what people are paid in various occupations across Canada.

What's Hot, What's Not?

• A Guide to the BC Economy and Labour Market
  An excellent source of information about historical and current trends.
• BC Stats
  The provincial government's largest concentration of statistical products, services and expertise.
• BC Work Information Net
  Central website with links to multitude of work-related sites.
• Invest BC
  Community and Regional Profiles.
• Labour Force Survey
  Latest employment statistics from this cross-Canada survey.
• Labour Market News
  Issues of The Link and Coastal Chronicles.
• Service Canada: BC Labour Market Information
  Information about our local economy, trends in the labour market and the worker-employer marketplace in the BC/Yukon Region.
• Service Canada LMI
  Federal Government Labour Market site.
• Stats Can
  Explore labour market information and links to education, business, industry, government stats, and careers.