Career resources help you plan your path and guide you how to prepare for evaluating your skills, developing job search strategies, long-term career planning, and lifelong learning. Your career path may change direction or expand after finishing university, college, trades or vocational school.

The new economy creates new roles and opens opportunities in different areas, while reducing the need for more traditional occupations. Your career direction will be influenced also by economic cycles of prosperous times followed by slow growth times.

Here is a selection of resources that will help you assess you strengths and take steps to develop your career path:

. Directions for Immigrants in Trades and Professional Careers Workshops
and Resources
. Define Your Skills, Values and Work Style (Self-Assessment Tools)
. Write Good Cover Letters and Resumes (Curriculum Vitae)
. Plan Your Career
. Continue to Learn - Lifelong Learning Concept
. Job Search Resources

Directions for Immigrants in Trades and Professional Careers Workshops and Resources
Directions for Immigrants in Trades and Professional Careers (DITPC) is a new service in Calgary, who offers industry specific workshops to help immigrants in trade and professional careers.

WE CAN HELP YOU:
. Access resources and information about accreditation in your field
. Understand what Calgary and area employers are looking for
. Learn what trades and professions are in demand in Calgary
. Connect to other community services and resources
. Restart working in your field of expertise

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Define Your Skills, Values and Work Style (Self-Assessment Tools)
Use online self-assessment tools or quizzes that will help you understand what skills and values you can bring to the workplace. The quizzes take longer time to finish; they are fun and just require that you use the Internet connection for 10-30 minutes.

. Job Futures Career Quiz
. Career Tests
. TOWES � How Do Your Skills Measure Up?
. The Work Handbook � Canada Career Consortium

Write Good Cover Letters and Resumes (Curriculum Vitae)
There are many websites that provide tips on how to write a good cover letter and explain what style of resume is most appropriate for your needs. See a few examples of cover letters and resumes at the following websites:

. Job Star Central
. Workopolis.com � Resource Centre

Plan Your Career
See the whole picture of how to think about your career path from defining your skills and values to researching the labour market and education programs that suit your needs. Define your long-term goals and devise a plan of action for yourself:

. Alberta Learning Information Services Career Tips � Career Planning A Work in
Progress
. Career Hub
. My Career Planner � Canada Prospects
. Canada Prospects

Continue to Learn - Lifelong Learning
Obtaining a degree or a certificate is just the beginning of a career path, lifelong learning is important in Alberta for both employers and employees. Professionals and trades people are constantly upgrading their technical and soft skills in various ways, such as: attending industry workshops, taking academic courses and online training as required by their professional association, and upgrading computer skills. See a list educational institutions and study programs in Alberta prepared by the Alberta Government - Alberta Learning: EDinfo

Job Search Resources
You can search company information and see job or career postings at individual websites of various companies using a list of Calgary and Alberta Business Directories

You can search a small selection of Internet job search resources that are useful for Alberta:

. Alberta Learning Information Services Job Banks for Alberta
. Alberta Learning Information Services Employer Job Listings by Industry in Alberta
. Working.com
. Calgary Job Shop
. Calgary Jobs
. City of Calgary
. Hire Ground Careers
. HRDC Calgary Job Bank
. Workopolis
. Monster 
. Eluta.ca 
. EduJobsCanada.com
. Wowjobs.ca
. Craig�s List
. Healthjobs.ab.ca