Exploring Careers: Labour Market Information

Where Do I Begin?

Canadian Careers
Explore this site to find online interest and skill tests.
Career Cruising
Check out the Career Matchmaker and explore detailed career information. (Ask a staff member for the password to this site.)
Career Manual
You have been put in charge of your own career. Managing it will be a lifelong process. Choose work that will be compatible with your own unique skills, knowledge, personality, and interests.
Career Navigator and Quizzes
Learn more about your abilities and learning styles.
Employment and Community Resources
Scroll down the page to a variety of union webpages plus other employment resources.
Job Hunter's Bible
This page offers several career and personality tests.
Service Canada Training & Careers
This site is designed to help people explore their career and work options.
Surfing for Work
This online tutorial offers labour market and job search information.
Work BC
The Government of British Columbia's source for labour market information.

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Alberta Occupational Profiles
Detailed descriptions of hundreds of occupational possibilities.
BC Industrial Profiles
This site explores labour market sectors in the Lower Mainland and Southwest BC.
BC Work Futures
BC Occupational Forecast.
Canada IT
Your gateway to the Canadian Information Technology industry.
Canadian Forces
Click on Careers to explore options in the Navy, Army, Airforce and Reserves.
Canadian Sector Councils
Consult Sector Councils to learn more about your industry.
Careers in Construction
Dozens of careers to choose from.
Careers in Fort McMurray, AB
Research before you pack.
Careers in Oil & Gas
A Virtual Career Fair about the Oil Patch.
eHow
Find out how to become a freelance writer, paralegal, midwife, and more.....
Entry Level Jobs
Learn about jobs that require little or no training or previous work experience.
Essential Skills
This site gives detailed information on the skills required for specific occupational profiles.
Job Futures
Occupational forecasts provided by the Canadian government.
Lower Mainland Industrial Profiles
A series of sector booklets.
NOC Codes
National Occupational Classification: detailed descriptions of Canadian occupations.
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
The industries on this site are classified according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada of 2007.
Wages and Salaries
Find out what people are paid in various occupations across Canada.

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A Guide to the BC Economy and Labour Market
An excellent source of information about historical and current trends.
BC Stats
The provincial government's largest concentration of statistical products, services and expertise.
BC Work Information Net
Central website with links to multitude of work-related sites.
Invest BC
Community and Regional Profiles.
Labour Force Survey
Latest employment statistics from this cross-Canada survey.
Labour Market News
Issues of The Link and Coastal Chronicles.
Service Canada: BC Labour Market Information
Information about our local economy, trends in the labour market and the worker-employer marketplace in the BC/Yukon Region.
Service Canada LMI
Federal Government Labour Market site.
Stats Can
Explore labour market information and links to education, business, industry, government stats, and careers.

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