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Thought of the day...
Did you know...
...Typically, employers will spend only 15 to 20 seconds on each resume.
...The resume is the employer's tool for eliminating candidates rather than the candidate's tool for gaining access to the company. (From CareerCity)
Learn how to grab the employer's attention from the  Resume/Cover Letters Section.

Employment, Career and Work Search Resources Online

Job Search Skills Sites

  • Vancouver Jobs -- Vancouver Jobs and Job Opportunities in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Western Canada: Vancouver Job Search, Vancouer Resume Database.
  • BC WorkInfoNet --  An excellent resource for British Columbia job seekers, employers and career practioners alike
  • Canada WorkinfoNET Home Page  -- Similar to above -- with information for all of Canada
  • JOBTRAK:Job Search Tips -- Very useful site covering a wide area of job search concerns
  • Job Search Manual  --  Suggests job search strategies
  • CareerCity Jobs and Employment
  • Canadian Career Page
  • What Color Is Your Parachute: Job Hunting Online
  • Netscape Career Center
  • LBJ Career Services: Job Search Advice
  • Subject Index - Employment and Labour -- Site full of links to Career Information and Employment Services
  • JobSmart: Northern California Job Search Guide
  • Canada WorkInfoNet
  • Entry Level Job Seeker Assistant
  • Occupational Outlooks Handbook Index: A .. B
  • Youth Employment Information -- Site developed by the Canadian Federal Government for youth
  • Researching the Employer

  • The Top 1000  --from the Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine
  • JobWeb -- Searching for Employer Information -- American
  • AmericanCompanies.com
  • Company Info - Netscape -- American
  • Canadian Company Capabilities -- Information provided by Industry Canada on over 26 000 Canadian companies, 700 000 products, services, technologies and markets.
  • Quicken Investment Research Centre  --  A Canadian company research information (searchable) database. 
  •  SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval)  -- Includes annual reports, interim financial statements, press releases and prospectuses. Public companies.
  • The RedBook Online  --  Guide to community, social and government agencies and services.  (Vancouver's Lower Mainland.)
  • Research Companies - Monster.ca

  • International Jobs
     

  • One Small Planet  --  Resource for International Work, Study, Volunteer and Travel Opportunities.
  • www.employment.com.au  --  Search for employment opportunities in Australia
  • Careers Overseas  -- Welcome to Careers Overseas - your gateway to an international career. 
  • Tips for Overseas Employment Scams  --  Provided by the better Business Bureau.
  • Overseas Jobs & Employment: On the Net 500 Sites!  --  Mega site of links to overseas jobs.
  • Asia Net -- Job posting site for jobs in Asia.
  • Council on International Education -- Service to young people studying, working and traveling abroad.
  • Teaching Jobs in the US -- An Educational Placement Service
  • The International Educator -- For international teaching positions.
  • International Teaching & Administration
  • Occupational Descriptions

  • National Occupational Classification (NOC) -- a tool for helping Canadians to understand the world of work. It describes duties, skills, interests, aptitudes, education requirements and working settings for occupations in the Canadian labour market.
  • BC WorkFutures Occupational Profiles -- excellent site providing occupational descriptions for the BC Labour Market
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook Index: A .. B -- provided by The Bureau of Labor Statistics (an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor).
  • Job Futures -- Labour Market Projections from HRDC (Canadian)
  • Career Directions -- Nearly 200 profiles of occupations that do not need a university education.  The occupations are grouped into nine categories or fileds of work.
  • Occupational Analysis Series -- These documents provide a detailed individual National Occupational Analysis identifying and grouping tasks performed by skilled workers in 70 trades or occupations.
  • Labour Market Information

  • Canada Prospects 2000--offers strategies for successful career searching, plus career trends and  ideas for entrepreneurs
  • Labour Force Survey -- StatCan Daily  --provides monthly LMI updates -- Statistics Canada
  • National Labour Market Information Systems (NLMISys)  --  Canadian LMI from HRDC -- general and detailed information available by province
  • BC's Labour Market Information -- similar to above; search by region
  • BC WorkInfoNet - Making Sense of LMI
  • Facilitator's Guide: Making Career Sense of LMI - Contents
  • Career Gateways -- Applying Labour Market Information in a Changing World
  • Youth 2010: Website -- The BC Labour Market in the Future
  • STC: Canadian Statistics
  • Labour Market Information (LMI) / Information sur le marché du travail (IMT)  -- provided by the HRDC
  • What's Key in Labour Market Information in BC
  • CX-98 Daily News
  • SkillNet -- Canada's Daily Labour Market News
  • Changing Times Webzine -- LMI and Career Practioners
  • eGuide - Occupational, Educational and Worksearch Resources page --  from BC Workinfonet.  A page listing LMI resources

  • Employability Skills
     

  • Essential Skills -- Helping you better understand the skills used in life, learning and work.
  • National Life Work Centre -- The objective is to help people of all ages become self-reliant, make informed choices and find satisfying and fulfilling work and lifestyles in today's rapidly changing labour markets.
  • Employability Skills Forum -- From the Conference Board of Canada.  Find out what skills will help you find, attain, and maintain gainful employment.
  • Resumes/Coverletters

  • Building Your Career Correspondence  --How to build your Career Correspondence (Cover Letters, Resumes and Interviews)
  • Sample Career Correspondence  -- ejana's Sample Resumes and Cover Letters 
  • Thinking about Resumes  -- ejana's QUICK QUESTIONS to ask yourself when writing your Resume 
  • Thinking about Cover Letters  -- ejana's QUICK QUESTIONS to ask yourself when writing your Cover Letter 
  • Writing Effective Cover Letters
  • CareerBuilder's "How to" Guide: Resumes
  • Resume writing tips - 40 free resume workshops by Regina Pontow
  • Youth Resource Network of Canada - Job Search Techniques
  • Resumes, resume writing  --  From CareerCity.  Offers samples, and overviews different resume formats.
  • monster.com: Resumes and Letters
  • GraduateResumes
  • Resources for Writing Reference Letters

  • Job Web
  • Career Avenue
  • Help with Reference Letters
  • Indiana Workforce Development  -- Worksheet/Guide for Letters of Reference

  • Resources for Writing CVs (Curriculum Vitae)
     

  • CV Tips  --  Tips and resources for writing CVs
  • JobSmart  -- discussion of uses of CVs and offers samples.
  • Curriculum Vitae and Related Letters  --  Site that explains CVs and offers examples.  Provided by Colorado College.
  • What is a Curriculum Vitae?   --  Provided by the University of Waterloo.  Explains each section that can be included in a CV.
  • Columbia University  --  Discusses who needs CVs and compares them to resumes.
  • Resume Resource Manual  --  From University of California, Davies.  Offers sample CVs, and discusses format and content.
  • Interview Skills Sites

  • JOBTRAK:Interviewing
  • Interviewing Skills  --comprehensive document compiled by Cabrillo College Career Planning & Student Employment Center
  • Youth Resource Network of Canada - Interview Skills  --Links to several useful Interview sites
  • Before the Interview Competitive Interview Preparation
  • Strategic Interview Tips
  • Next Steps  --interview preparation ideas
  • Information for Clinical, Career and Employment Counsellors

  • Brooks/Cole-Wadsworth Helping Professions
  • Contact Point - A Counsellor's Resource
  • HRDC - CRC
  • Welcome to NETWERCC Online... --site for Networking Education and Training for Workers in Employment, Rehabilitation and Career Counselling
  • Canadian Career Development Foundation
  • Counsellor Training Institute
  • The Counselling Foundation of Canada
  • Counselling and Psychotherapy Associates Limited
  • A Student’s Guide to Accreditation
  • Links To Counselling Resources On The Web
  • Affiliates & Related Sites  --links to information for counsellors (clinical counselling; American)
  • BC WorkInfoNet: Career Resources Guide '98
  • Career Development Practioner post diploma program
  • CSGDC / LDNCDC  --Canadian Standards and Guidelines for Career Development
  • Changing Times - The New Economy and the New Labour Market
  • Canadian Professional Counsellors' Association  --  (more aimed at clinical counselling)
  • eGuide --Excellent resources for Career Professionals (from BC WorkInfoNet)
  • Student Stuff - Information for Students or New Graduates

  • Youth Resource Network of Canada - Information About Jobs
  • Career Services
  • PSC - Recruitment Menu
  • National Youth Internet Site
  • Recruiters
  • Youth Resource Network of Canada
  • Experience Canada - Home Page
  • Campus WorkLink
  • CACEE WorkWeb  --  Canada's online campus career centre
  • Career Mosaic
  • fastWEB Canada - Financial Aid Search Through the WEB
  • Welcome to the NGR (National Graduate Registry)!
  • HRDC National Internet Site, home page. Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)
  • Waterloo Wellington Information Network for Employment and Training
  • Welcome to Job Futures 1997-98
  • BC WORK Futures Online
  • Academic Program Sites

  • What can I do with a degree in...
  • Canadian Univ., Colleges, Student Loans, Scholarships
  • North American Universities & Colleges Directories
  • Study Skills

  • Academic Enhancement
  • The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection
  • General study skills & key skills resources
  • College Learning Competencies
  • UW Counselling Services - Study Skills
  • Counselling Services Home Page - University of Victoria
  • Study Skills
  • Yahoo! Education:Guidance:Study Aids
  • Learning Resource Network - The Learning Centre
  • ETC: Trainers Resource
  • Education World ® - Curriculum: The Best of the Web: Resources for Middle School Educators
  • Style Guides

  • APA Style Guide
  • Formerly "The APA Crib Sheet"
  • Volunteering Sites

  • British Columbia Volunteer Centres
  • Welcome to the Buranby Volunteer Centre!
  • Job Banks

     
  • Jobs Open To The Public --  provided by the Public Service Commission of Canada
  • The Monster Board --  Canadian online network for careers
  • Employment News -- career and job resource for the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa with searchable resume database
  • Van.Net -- newspaper classified adds
  • Careerclick.com | Job Search
  • The Province - Classified -- BC newspaper
  • Vancouver Sun - Classified -- BC newspaper
  • WELCOME TO THE EMPLOYMENT PAPER ON-LINE -- BC newspaper
  • HEIP - Employment Opportunities -- the Health Employment Internet Project posts jobs in Health Services for BC
  • JobSAT Employment Database -- Canadian job postings with searchable resume database
  • British Columbia Work Information Network -- comprehensive online career and labour market information for BC
  • Electronic Labour Exchange (ELE)- Système de Placement Électronique (SPE)
  • Work Search - Human Resources Development Canada
  • VANCOUVER & COAST MOUNTAINS Postings
  • Job Bank - Canada -- provided by the HRDC
  • CSI - Jobs, Cities, and Other Canadian Links -- career links page provided by CSI, (a professional immigration consulting company)
  • Employment and Immigrant Services (Primarily in BC's Lower Mainland)

  • Training Access Centre -- a site listing services (employment) sponsored by HRDC
  • Conicor Services Page -- Immigrant Services
  • AMSSA's Immigrant Integration Coordinating Committee
  • Burnaby Multicultural Society Helping New Canadians
  • Welcome To North Shore Multicultural Society
  • S.U.C.C.E.S.S. - A Service Community
  • The YMCA offers English classes, Accommodation and more!
  • New Westminster Community Skills Centre
  • Burnaby Community Skills Centre (a division of the Open Learning Agency) -- has programs for immigrants as well as for persons on EI
  • Career Connection for youth in the Tri-city area
  • Ministry Responsible for Multiculturalism, Human Rights and Immigration -- Provides a community-based focus for the BC government's funding programs and initiatives related to integration in our communities, including cross-cultural understanding, anti-racism, and the successful settlement of immigrant newcomers.
  • Training Innovations Inc. -- Training Innovations Inc. is a private training company that offers career planning and employability skills training programs to meet Canada's changing economy and work place

  • demands.
  • Landell and Associates Consulting Ltd. -- Landell and Associates Consulting Ltd., incorporated in 1990, is well established in its ninth year of delivering employment counselling services.
  • Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) from Immigrant Services of BC -- training programs available for immigrants
  • Career Assessments Online

  • Birkman Test  --  need your name and email address for this 24 item test
  • Career Questionnaire  --34 items on this questionnare
  • Career Key  --  have to enter your name for this test
  • The Career Game  -- Uses Holland Code types to describe interests and suggest possible careers
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator Resources

  • History and Construction of mbti
  • Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc: Home Page
  • Myers-Briggs Psychotypology: A Brief Primer
  • Internet Resources for Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
  • Working out your own Myers Briggs type
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator Websites - Title
  • Temperament Research Institute
  • Personality Type Summary (Myers-Briggs)
  • Tracy Grubbs' - Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test®
  • MBTI
  • Myers-Briggs Model of Personality


  • Since July 29, 1999