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WorkSearch – offers quizzes for discovering work interests styles, values and career areas.
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter to explore your personality type. This test gives you a simulated "Meyers Briggs" personality rating. Once you have your scores go to Type Logic to find out what it’s all supposed to mean.
College Board Online gives an extensive questionnaire and list of occupations to match.
https://www.testingroom.com/logon.jsp offers 3 beta tests (meaning you will be asked for identification information for their research). Tests include a Career Values Inventory, a TRIMA Career Competency Questionnaire and a Work Styles Inventory. Together they will give you a fairly complete picture of what you can and want to be.
The Career Key is an extensive site that gives "Holland’s Six Personality Types" to define which groups of careers you’re best suited for. Scientific and a pretty snazzy site too.
The Career Advisor is a commercial human resources site that makes its money by selling aptitude and training tests to corporations. They do have some free ones called "Likes and Dislikes -Your Key to Happiness" which help you draw a picture of your perfect job.
BC WorkInfo Net - A good one-stop access to career and labour market information.
Work Futures - Facts and trends about today's labour market. It predicts future trends and market conditions over the next 10 years. It examines 190 job profiles in 10 major job groups.
Job Futures – Job duties, earnings, and training required. Labour market trends
WorkScene - with basic
information on 200 specific careers for youth in BC. Each profile includes
details about working in the field, where the jobs are, how many jobs there
are, how much money you can expect to make, which skills and certification
you will need.
The Monster Board – Grand-daddy
of them all. Lots of information and links.
MonsterTRAK – A new service for individual college campus. Cap College is listed and you will be asked to give a password to enter the site. Our password is v7j 3h5
Net Jobs Employment Agency
Bcjobs.net: An employment registry that specializes in British Columbia Companies.
Current listings of Jobs in the BC Government
Electronic Labour Exchange An online job matching service provided by Human Resources Canada.
CareerOwl – has job listings and career information for Canadian Students
JobWaves is a program through the BC Chamber of Commerce that helps people on social assistance find work
www.youthonthemove.gc.ca program from the federal government (Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade) that promotes international work, study and travel abroad. The program is dedicated to helping young Canadians and Europeans experience each other’s culture to “develop a globally minded, talented and skilled marketplace for the new millennium!”
Links to International Employment Sites including many Italian (30) and international (80) job sites where to post/search resumes and a check list of the main free services offered to job seekers and job employers. Also shows a great on-line resume.
Dave’s ESL Café – Job postings – information and chat groups to English as a Second language Teachers.
Cool Jobs Canada Tourism Jobs.
Career Tips lists employment
and general information about the US, Canada, Austraila, UK and India
Action without borders: International Non-profit information
SWAP (Student Work Abroad Program)
owned by Canadian Federation of Students
Canada World Youth – enables
youth under 30 to work with volunteer organizations in developing countries
for 3-6 months.
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) – offers graduates between 19-30 the opportunity to gain work experience in an international setting.
Canadian Unitarian Service Organization (CUSO) – works internationally for social justice and global environmental sustainability by sending Canadians on 2 year volunteer work placements in developing countries
AIESEC – is a student run organization facilitating international exchanges for thousands of students and receint graduates each year as paid or volunteers in 85 countries.
Netcorps Canada: International – provides 6 month internships in developing countries for youth between 18 and 30 who have Information Technology skills.
WORLDTEACH – allows individuals with a Bachelor of Arts and 25 hours of classroom teaching experience work as volunteer teachers in developing countries.
Young Canada Works Internationally – offers unemployed and underemployed university and college students under the age of 30 internatiola work related to their careers.
Youth Challenge (YCI) - involves community development, health work and environmental research conducted by teams of volunteers aged 18-25. Program participants must raise funds for 10 week work periods in Costa Rica and Guyana.
Youth International Internship
Program (YIIP) - offers 6-8 month internships to 18 – 29 year olds.
Misc web sites
Systran Language Translator will read a phrase in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian and translate it into English or one of the other languages.
Salary Calculator. Check the cost of living in hundreds of US, Canadian and International cities. See how much salary you will need to make in a new city to keep your present standard of living.
US Salary Surveys no jobs there but could be interesting
Distance Calculator. Find the distance (as the crow fly) between any two cities in the world
BC,s Public Education System – Which college or university has which programs. How much they cost and how long they last. What you need to be accepted and how successful the program is.
JobWaves is a program
through the BC Chamber of Commerce that helps people on social assistance
find work and offers a $1000 training allowance to employers.