If you have identified a need to make a decision
around your career, this package is for you.
It has four sections:
1. KNOW YOURSELF
Section 1 will help you find information to define your personal profile
(values, personal characteristics, abilities, and interests) and identify
possible occupations that will fit your profile.
2. KNOW ABOUT OCCUPATIONS
Section 2 will direct you to information sources for researching possible
occupations for your career options using the Internet, paper and people.
3. KNOW THE LABOUR MARKET
Section 3 will direct you to information on trends and industries and
occupations in demand.
4. GOAL SETTING AND ACTION PLANS
Section 4 will direct you to tools to help you to establish a career goal and
develop an action plan to reach that goal.
You may not need to do all sections of this guide. This package begins with a summary
chart listing the information resources in the package and identifying what each
resource has to offer.
Inside the package you will find descriptions of the resources relevant to the section
you are working in. If you need any help with computer use or finding one of the
suggested resources, don’t hesitate to ask Employment Resource Centre staff for help.
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SUMMARY OF CAREER DECISION-MAKING LMI RESOURCES
TITLE AND LOCATION
Personal
Assessm
ents
Career Cruising
www.careercruising.com
Job Bank
www.jobbank.gc.ca
www.labourmarketinformati
on.ca
Saskjobfutures
www.saskjobfutures.ca
New Brunswick Labour
Market Information
www.gnb.ca/0126/indexe.asp
ALIS Alberta
http://alis.alberta.ca
Career Development
eManual University of
Waterloo
www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca
National Occupational
Classification System
www5.hrsdc.gc.ca
CanLearn
www.canlearn.ca
Job Futures
www.jobfutures.ca
Local Education Institutions
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Resource Centre Binder
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Lists of
Occupa
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Occupational
Descriptions &
Training
Requirements
Videos
of Real
workers
Wages
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List of
provincial
education
institutions
Learning
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training
locations
Labour
Market
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Graduate
Surveys
Action
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1. KNOW YOURSELF
This section will help you find information to develop a personal profile that can
help you select occupations or jobs that could suit you.
There are many websites and paper products that have quizzes to identify values,
personal characteristics, abilities, learning styles and interests. Often the websites
will also provide lists of occupations that suit different profiles.
Here are two recommended sites to get started:
 www.jobbank.gc.ca – when the “Home Page” opens, scroll down to
“Career Navigator” and click on it. These are the choices:
o Abilities Quiz: Identify your abilities and get a list of matching
occupations to explore
o Data, People, Things Quiz: Select the ways you like to work with
data, people and things and get a list of matching occupations to
explore.
o Work Preference Quiz: Do you prefer directive, social, methodical,
objective or innovative work? Complete the work preference
inventory to get a list of occupations that match your preferences.
 www.careercruising.com – your resource centre staff will have a handout
for you on how to get into this site. From the “Welcome Page,” select
“Explore Assessments” in the left menu and then choose to do any or all of
the choices:
o “Career Matchmaker,” answer questions about your likes and
dislikes to find careers that match up with your interests;
o “My Skills,” rate your level of skill in 45 key areas to see how your
skills match up with the careers that you are interested in; and
o “Learning Inventory,” discover how you learn and retain information
and find tips on how to improve your study habits to suit your
learning style.
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1. KNOW YOURSELF
o “Multiple Intelligence Quiz”: Discover your unique style of thinking
and understanding.
o “Work Values Quiz”: What values are important to you in your work
environment?
o “Seeing, Hearing, and Doing Quiz”: Discover your unique style of
learning.
Ask the Resource Centre Staff for:
the Personal Profile Quizzes handout, page 3-8, from the Career Decision-making
Binder,
or other books or resources to help you develop your personal profile.
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2. KNOW ABOUT OCCUPATIONS
There are excellent resources for learning about occupations. Here are some
resources that can guide you to:
a. Gather information from electronic and print materials;
b. Gather information from people through information interviews.
Where I Can Look
What I can look for
Career Cruising
 Occupational profiles with job description,
www.careercruising.com to see and
work conditions, earnings,
hear real people on the job
education/training, career paths, related
jobs, links to other resources
(Ask a staff person how to get into
 900 interviews with real people in the
this site)
occupations
 Education and apprenticeship information
 Search for an occupation based on your
profile
www.labourmarketinformation.ca
 Occupation descriptions
to find occupational profiles and
 Work conditions
occupational information specific to  Education or training needed
each province and region in Canada.  General wages
If you live in New Brunswick you
 Employment trends and outlooks
can find relevant information on
 Employers who hire – note that some on
occupations for your province on
the list are outdated (check with Resource
this website.
Centre staff)
 About the Local Labour Market (choose the
Labour Market Bulletin)
Sask Job Futures
 Profiles of occupations relevant to your
www.saskjobfutures.ca for
province
information on occupations and
 Create comparison charts of occupations
future opportunities in
with salary, numbers employed and job
Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan
prospects
residents can also find provincial
 Choose to see occupations grouped by
occupational information on the
education level required for the job
labourmarketinformation.ca site
above.
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2. KNOW ABOUT OCCUPATIONS
ALIS Alberta
http://alis.alberta.ca
 Talking to Employers – go to the “Career
Explorers” section (3rd tab across top),
choose “Career Planning Resources” and
then “CAREERinsite”
 In CAREERsite, go to “Career Planning
Steps” and you will find “Talking to
Employers” about occupations in Step 4
Ask in the Resource Centre for any of these handouts:
Where to Go for What you Want, page 9
(more career websites with notes on the content of each)
Job Futures Occupations List, page 13
(lists of occupations by interest in People, things and information)
Occupations Related to Interests, page 21
(maps of occupations related to interest and ability)
Sector Matrices, page 37
(organization chart of occupations in several industries)
Information Interview, page 65
(information on how to prepare for and conduct an information interview to get
information on occupations of interest)
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3. KNOW ABOUT THE LABOUR MARKET
For information about industry, occupation and hiring trends in the labour market
see some of the resources below.
You may want to look at some publications and websites like:
 Labour Market Information Site www.labourmarketinformation.ca has
labour market information by province and region within the province. Find
prospects for work opportunities and descriptions of trends developing in
occupations and industries.
 New Brunswick Labour Market Information www.gnb.ca/0126/index-e.asp
has labour market trends and challenges, information on industries,
occupational prospects with some wage information, the wage survey, and
graduate surveys from the New Brunswick Community College.
 The government’s Labour Market Bulletin in the resource centre (you can
also print it from the labour market information website mentioned in the
first bullet). Look for companies that are expanding, closing or opening for
clues on occupation and industry work opportunities.
 Your local newspaper in the employment resource centre or library. Look
in the Business section or other sections for articles about companies,
occupations and training. There may be clues about industries that are
growing, who may be hiring, jobs that are needed and occupations or
industries that are shrinking or disappearing.
 Sector Councils: Industries (sometimes called Sectors) in Canada have
councils and websites with information about their industry. You can find
occupational information, industry trends and education and training
information on their websites.
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Ask the resource centre staff for the handout:
Where to Go for What you Want, page 9, for the web address and notes on the
content of several sector council’s with career websites.
List of Canada’s Sector Councils, page 59, with websites and contact information.
Information Interview, page 65, has information on how to prepare for and
conduct an information interview: a valuable use of information interviewing is to
find out local labour market information from employers and employees.
Job Futures Employment Prospects Ratings, page 71, will explain what good, fair
and poor ratings for work prospects mean.
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4. GOAL SETTING AND ACTION PLANS
You will find resources for creating an action plan for your career goal in the
Resource Centre.
One resource is the internet site below.
The Career Planning Guide on this site is suitable for everyone, no matter what
province they live in.
ALIS Alberta, http://alis.alberta.ca/
 go to the “Career Explorers” section (3rd tab across top), choose view
“CAREERinsite.”
 From this page choose “Taking Action.”
 Scroll down the page to the “Activities” heading and choose “How to set
up an action plan.”
This will take you to a printable page for creating your own action plan.
Or you may prefer to ask the resource centre staff for the Career
Decision-making binder handouts:
Setting a Career Goal and Planning Action, page 73
Educational Institutions, New Brunswick page 79; Saskatchewan page 83 (for a
goal and action plan that involves education or training)
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