Education & Planning
Self-assessment
By gaining a better understanding of your interests, skills, and values you will be more likely to make the right career choice. That’s why your counsellor has a number of assessment tools to help you discover who you are and what you want to do.
While most assessments are administered by a counsellor, Career Cruising is an internet based career exploration and planning tool that can be accessed from anywhere. Career Cruising can help you discover your interests and skills as well as explore career and college options, develop a career plan, build a résumé, and even search for a job. Contact your counsellor today for a username and password to access this career planning tool.
The following assessment tools can help you match your interests, abilities, values and personality to specific occupations:
- Alberta ALIS: Know Yourself
- Career Quiz (interest assessment)
- The Keirsey Temperament Sorter®-II (KTS®-II) (personality assessment)
- Life Values Inventory
- Holland Code Test (personality assessment)
Career Exploration
The next step is to research various career options to see what each career has to offer (E.g. salary, work duties, required skills and education, employment prospects, advancement opportunities, etc.). For information on specific careers and education/training programs check out the following online resources:
Occupations:- Alberta ALIS: Explore Options
- National Occupational Classification Dictionary (NOC) 2021
- Government of Canada Job Bank: Explore Careers by Occupation & Explore the Labour Market
- Government of NL: Career Profiles & Labour Market Information
- Oil and Gas Career Information for NL
- School Finder: Careers Occupational information
- Labour Market Outlook 2025 NL
Education and Training Programs:
- School Finder: Programs
- School Finder: Schools
- Department of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills: Apprenticeship and Trades Certification Division (ATCD) and FAQs .
- Government of Canada: Education Planning Tools
- Post-Secondary Education in NL
- Financial Aid Information
- Scholarships and Awards
Other Sources of Information:
- Canada Employment Centers: Find an Employment Centre
- Career resource section of the library
- Volunteering or job shadowing
- College and university counsellors
- Conducting an information interview with someone currently in an occupation
Decision-making
Now it’s time to decide which career path is right for you based on what you’ve learned about yourself and the available career options. For help with the decision-making process, you can take a look at the following resources:
Action Plan
Having chosen a career, you can now begin developing and implementing an action plan of all the steps you need to take to reach your goal. To learn how to create an action plan that will help you stay on track, check out the following resources:
Implementation
You have your certificate/diploma, now you need to start looking for a job. There are plenty of online job sites that you can visit to begin your search, as well as resources to help you prepare a resume, cover letter, and interview that will stand out from the competition.
Job Sites Job Search Resources- IPGS-NL: Looking for Work
- Job-Search Assistance is available to help you enhance your job-search skills, develop or build your resume and cover letter, interview preparation, setting career goals and finding suitable programs, services and supports.
- E-mail EmploymentPrograms@gov.nl.ca
- Call 1-800-563-6600
- Alberta ALIS: Look for Work
- Government of Canada Job Bank: Finding a Job in Canada
- Find an Employment Centre in Canada
- How Do I look for a Job?
- How Can I Find Unadvertised Jobs?
- What Jobs are Available to Someone With a Disability?
- Where Can I Find Out Which Jobs Are in Demand? :
- Alberta ALIS:
- Tips for Writing Resumes and Cover Letters
- Videos:
- Government of Canada Job Bank:
- Indeed Career Guide has articles with tips on writing cover letters and resumes
- Alberta ALIS
- Indeed Career Guide: Interviewing (common questions, answers, and advice to help you prepare)
