Explore Your Career Interests

VECTOR
Video Exploration of Careers, Transitions, Opportunities, and Realities is a career exploration and planning tool. A primary feature of VECTOR is the Career Video Library, which provides over 100 video vignettes profiling a wide variety of career options.

Use Career Directions to explore your skills and interests, to investigate a variety of occupations, and to think about how to shape your skill sets to lead you to the work you want to do. This guide gives you common sense (and a step beyond common sense!) information about 186 occupations.

The 10 Step Career Planning Guide
An excellent site that takes you through the career planning process. It saves your results in their database so you can come back to it at anytime. This site is well organized, easy to follow and it looks good to.

Planning Success (UofW)
The Career Development Manual has been prepared to guide you through the necessary steps, whether you are looking for your 1st job or your 21st. You will have to complete this big site in one sitting as it does not save your results - so set aside some time.

Career Key
Use this on-line questionnaire to help with your career decision-making.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Find out more about your personality after completing this straight-forward and thought-provoking test.

Job Boom
The top 100 Internet sites for learning and employment.

Jobs, Workers, Training and Careers
Determine your eligibility for wage subsidy programs designed to help unemployed workers get back to work.

Skills for Life Learning and Work
Essential skills that people use in their jobs and in their lives every day, including:Reading Text, Continuous Learning, Document Use, Working with Others, Writing, Numeracy (Math), Thinking Skills, Oral Communication, Computer Use.

Research Different Occupations

BC WorkFutures Online
Written to help British Columbians with their career decisions.

BC WorkInfoNet
Useful online labour market and career information accessible to British Columbians

Job Futures
Job Futures will provides Canadians with information about the current world of work and projections for the future.

Industry Training Authority
What is an apprentice? What different trades careers are available? Learn about the shortage of skilled tradespeople.

The Interprovincial Standards (Red Seal) Program was established to provide greater mobility for skilled workers across Canada. This Website will enable you to learn more about apprenticeship, trades, the Red Seal and certification.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook
If you need to find out exactly what a Concrete Mason really does look here. Occupations in categories or alphabetical order. A U.S. publication but useful for Canadians, too.

Labour Market Information
North Island Job Opportunities

The Barometer
Labour Market Information for Campbell River, Comox Valley, and the North Island.

Vancouver Island Labour Market Information from Nanaimo HRSDC
Information about our local economy, trends in the labour market and the worker-employer marketplace in the Greater Vancouver Island area. Local Labour Market Information includes quarterly Labour Market Reviews and Community Profiles.

Business Council of BC
The Business Council of British Columbia is an association representing approximately 200 large and medium-sized enterprises from all major sectors of the provincial economy, including forest products, mining, manufacturing, transportation, agri-food, telecommunications, information technology, financial services, energy, tourism, retail, construction, healthcare, education and the professions.

The BC Labour Market in the Future
This is a report designed to provide young people with information on the changing job market in BC and the Yukon. In particular, it will identify 'what's hot' and 'what's not' in industries and occupations both now and for the year 2010.

The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC)
The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC) is a coordinating body formed of some 29 sector councils. Sector councils bring together representatives from business, labour, education, and other professional groups in a neutral forum in order to comprehensively and cooperatively analyze and address sector-wide human resource issues. A good source for researching trends and opportunities in different industries.

 
Canadian Industry Sectors
Explore what’s happening in different Canadian Industries. This site is filled with information, reports and publications that will keep you up-to-date on any given Canadian Industry.

Career and Labour Market Information in BC
Individual career exploration and work search, and the development of career and employment related resources and services all depend on up to date and accurate career and labour market information

What's Key in Labour Market Information in BC
For a scan of selected labour market information products and resources produced with support from the ministry over the last few years.

BC Statistics
BC Stats is the central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia.

Statistics Canada
The official source for Canadian social and economic statistics and products.

Canadian Government Data Sourcing
Internet based research and retrieval company that specializes in helping researchers access statistics collected by the Canadian Federal government. Some reports or data require payment but also lots of good free links to industry associations and contacts.