Online Sites To Help In Your Career Search
You can access many tools for career planning on the internet. Here are some of them.
1) Your learning style forms an important piece of information. How do you learn and how is it different from the way other people learn and perhaps different from the way schools teach?
The North Carolina State University’s Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire has a series of 44 questions at: www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
2) The Advisor Team has a Temperament Sorter that allows you to take an online quiz to determine what kind of temperament you have. Log on to:
www.advisorteam.com/temperament_sorter/register.asp?partid=1
You have to register for the quiz. It is free but like most other sites they will offer you things that you will have to pay for.
3) Transferable skills are those special attributes that we have, which could come in handy in a future career. You can take an online test to see what your transferable skills are at: www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/car/self/career_transfer_survey.html
4) The Career Key is a free service to help you with career choices, career changes, and career planning, job search, and choosing a college major or training programme.
5) The Princeton Review Career Quiz:
www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/career_quiz1.asp
Take this quiz for free to find out what career you prefer.
6) To make a good decision about a future career, it helps to know what type of work you enjoy doing. Should I go to college or look for a job? If I try to find a job, what kind of job should it be? How do I find what jobs are best for me?
The Work Interest Quiz is part of a military recruitment site, but it can help you find answers for any career path. www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html
Check the box next to any of the activities that you like to do. Your answers are analysed and fit into two of the six workgroups (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising or conventional)
7) The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet. Visit www.rileyguide.com
8) Work Search: The Counsellor Resource Centre worksearch.gc.ca/crc
9) What Colour is your Parachute: Job Hunting Online www.jobhuntersbible.com/
If you are one of those who dislikes wading through a lot of material on the internet and prefer a book, printed version of the book What Colour is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers by Richard Bolles is available in most book shops.
10) Career Directions: Information about careers where university is not required.
11) Occupational Outlook Handbook:
http://bls.gov This site has been developed by the US Government and not only provides information on specific occupations but also discusses occupations of the future.
12) Canada WorkInfoNet and work futures.
Information courtesy: Norman Amundson’s book Active Engagement – Enhancing the Career Counselling Process
