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Job Search
Training Program WebLinks
PROVINCE-WIDE LINKS
**Click Here for links to Online
Job Boards**
INTEREST/SELF-ASSESSMENT TESTS
The following are a list of free on-line interest tests which will match your results to specific jobs
Monster.ca Self-Assessment
Centre
Self-Assessment Centre provides Myers-Briggs type
personality assessment and ties the results to suggested careers.
Schoolfinder 3-Step
Career Quiz
Three Step Career Quiz is aimed more at high
school students, but provides a relatively quick interest inventory
which offers suggestions regarding careers and identifies schools
that offer relevant programming. You have to register to take the
test, but registration is free.
Career Key
The Career Key is based on John Holland's theory of vocational choice.
TestingRoom.com
This site needs free registration. Tests that
are available include discovering your values, your Career Interest, your
competencies and your work personality.
Jobs, Workers, Training and Careers
Under Career Exploration, use the Identify Your Career Options link to go to some quizzes to help you decide on a career. A Government of Canada site
Career Choices
Includes a tab for Quizzes, which has an interest inventory. You get an interest code which you can then match to various occupations. Warning:This site makes large use of 'Flash'. High speed Internet connection recommended.
SKILLS ASSESSMENT
You can use these resources at the beginning of your vocational rehabilitation process to identify skills which may lead you to another job. You can also use them at the end of the process to identify old and new skills that you can use in your resume, covering letters and interviews.
Career Directions
Use the Fields of Work section to find out what interests and skills are needed for broad categories of work.
OCCUPATIONAL EXPLORATION
Now that you know your interests and skills, and have some ideas regarding the jobs you might enjoy, use these links to gain more information about those jobs including duties, educational requirements, wages, physical demands, and demand for these jobs in coming years.
Job Profiles
Includes profiles of jobs written by people actually doing those jobs. You can learn about skills, stresses, challenges and rewards of various jobs as well as getting advice from people in the positions you want.
School Finder
Career Profiles provides information regarding selected careers including duties, wages, outlook. Much information appears taken from other sources such as Job Futures.
Ontario Job Futures
This HRDC-maintained site is similar to the one above, but with an Ontario focus.
National Occupational Classification
This site gives you information on almost any career you can name. It will show you the physical demands of the job as well as the duties and education required.
Career Directions
Use the Occupations Index to find information about various jobs including job duties and demands, average wages, and the qualities that would make you the right person for the job.
Career Key
This site has a listing of Industry Links that will take you to some occupation-specific associations and websites. Use some caution because many of these links are not Canadian.
Careers in Culture
This comprehensive website details information on careers in culture, as well as showing you where to find training, and including a job search link.
Possibilities Project
Information on jobs, and where to find training for the jobs.
LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION
Labour Market Information tells you which jobs are in demand and which are not. It tells you which occupational sectors are growing in your community, and which are shrinking. It also tells you what you can expect to earn in various jobs.
Ontario Job Futures
Similar to the link above, but with an Ontario-specific focus.
Current Labour Market Information
This site links to a number of labour market information resources. Take some time to look through them. From the Ministry of Education
Strategis
This government of Canada site gives you information about specific occupational sectors. Do you want to know what’s the latest in the fabric industry? Look here.
Jobs, Workers, Training and Careers
This government of Canada website offers information on jobs related to specific sectors, including trades. In the Career Exploration section, click on Research Your Career Options.
Canada Work Info NET the Government's virtual library of career and employment information.
Education and Training Resouces
Now that you know what you want to be, where can you find the training you need? The following links will give you good information on what to look for in training and where to find it. For more school-specific information, please talk to your vocational consultant.
School Finder
CanLearn Interactive
Possibilities Project
OCAS website (use this site for information and applications to college in Ontario)
Apprenticeship website(through Ministry of Education)
Job Search Resources
Use these resources to help in your job search
Canadian
Business Directory
Find companies in Ontario in specific categories. Use this resources to help in your job search.
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Canada Yellow Pages
Just like your yellow pages at home, this link allows you access to names, addresses and phone numbers of companies in various categories. Search by location, business classification.
Yellow.ca
This is another listing similar to the one above, but does give you some different results. Use it in your job search to find companies you could work for.
Find a Person/Business
Do you know the name of a company but not the address or phone number? Look it up here.
Yellowpages Reverse Phone Lookup
Do you have a phone number and not know who it belongs to? Look it up here.
Canada News Wire
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