www.youth.gc.ca (assists youth in bridging the gap between education and employment. It also offers a directory of the best national and provincial links to sites containing information about preparing for employment and finding a job.

www.careermag.com (an interactive career, employment and job resource center offering resume submission, job openings, work related articles and more.

www.careerexperience.com (comprehensive site that gives you self assessments as well as jobs and career resources

www.careeredge.org (aimed at enhancing youth employability through a national youth internship program. Host organizations offer six, nine, or twelve month paid internships that provide employment experience to youth.

www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/career-carriere/directions98/eng/intro.shtml (this Canadian site offers suggestions for career options that don’t require a university degree.

www.review.com/career/templates/temp1.cfm?body=index.cfm (a career database with information on jobhunting, resume writing, covering letters and interview skills.

www.aucc.ca (this association administers international and Canadian exchanges and programs for students and researchers. They also manage programs that establish links between universities in Canada and abroad. The Canadian Awards Program is the largest educational awards program in Canada.

http://www.sheridanc.on.ca (this is an excellent Canadian site with numerous links o other sites.)

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Communications Branch

http://wwwagr.ca

BIOTECCanada Human Resources Council

e-mail: bhrc@biotech.ca (develops qualified, skilled and experienced people for jobs in the Canadian biotechnology sector. Offers training and certification programs, career development and custom designed programs

Engineering

Engineering and Geosciences: http://www.apegga.com/science/

Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada web site: http://www.acec.ca

Canadian Council of Professional Engineers

http://www.ccpe.ca

Environment

Canadian Environmental Network

Wwwcen-web.net (provides general information and perspectives on environmental issues

Canadian Council for Human Resources in the Environment & Industry

Web: www.cchrei.ca

Environmental Organization Web Directory Information regarding environmental careers

www.webdirectory.com/

Canadian Council for Human Resources in the Environment Industry

http://www.cchrei.ca (CCHREI is a non profit organization that works to ensure a match between the environmental resource needs of the industry and the skills and knowledge of the environmental workforce. Education and internship programs such as the Environmental Youth Corp. help meet part of this goal.

High Technology

Canadian Technology Human Resources Board

http://www.cthrb.ca

Canadian High Technology Alliance

http://www.cata.ca

Software Human Resource Council

http://www.shrc.ca

Information Technology Association of Canada

http://www.itac.ca

Canadian Information Technology Processing Society

http://www.cips.ca

Logistics

Logistics personnel use skills with details to work at various points of the process in creating goods and information and supplying the products to the consumer.

http://loginstitute.ca

Mining

Mining Industry Training and Adjustment Council – Canada

http://www.mitac.ca

Psychology

Canadian Psychological Association www.cpa.ca

American Psychological Association www.apa.org/

Travel and Tourism

Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council

www.cthrc.ca

CAREER RESEARCH WEBSITES:

Canada WorkInfoNet (www.workinfonet.ca/) is a website with an amazing amount of useful career information along with links to other excellent Canadian and International sites.

Career Options (www.cacee.com/index.html) is a website produced by the Canadian Association of Career Employment Educators, one of the major professional organizations in Canada for career placement of college and university graduates. It contains a variety of articles in the whole area of career planning and job search. Clinck on “Student and Recent Grads” for a full menu of options.

Canada Prospects (www.careerccc.org) is a website produced by the government of Canada with a wide range of articles and information on careers and career planning.

Career Mosaic Canada (www.careermosaic.com/cm/canada) has a variety of useful career information and links and a special section for post-secondary students called Campus Connections. (links to careerbuilder.com)

The Riley Guide (www.dbm.com/jobguide is a meta-list of employment opportunities and job resources on the Internet. (links to rileyguide.com)

Career Centre of Sheridan College (www.sherdan.on.ca/career/links.htm#careerplanning) is a Canadian site with an annotated listing of a number of career sites. It is kep tup to date and has an easy to use directory.

Researching Self Assessment

University of Waterloo Career Site

www.adm.uwaterloo,ca/infocecs/CRC/manual-home.html Offers a caerr planning process on-line.

The MazeMaster (www.mazemaster.on.ca/) has a number of activities and exercises designed to allow you to access your skills, interests, values and so on. In addition, it has other interesting career information.

Self-Assessment sites:

http:umanitoba.ca/counseling/careers.html

http://www.2h.com/Tests/personality.phtml

EMPLOYABLILITY SKILLS

Conference Board of Canada (www.conferenceboard.ca) has a comprehensive list of “Employability” skills

Researching Occupational Options

Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://www.bls.gov/ocol) This is a full listing of occupations according to the USA classification system.

Careers Online Virtual Careers Show (www.careersonline.com.au/show/menu.html) This website has ober 1000 occupations (from the US Bureau of Statistics and Australian Government.

OccInfo (www.alis.gov.ab.ca/occinfo/) is an website with very detiled descriptions of over 500 major occupations.

Researching Educational Programs

Canadian Post-Secondary School Finder (www.schoolfinder.com) can help you find colleges and universities.

Use the College Smarts (www.college-smarts.com) At the bottom of the page there are links to all Canadian Universities and Colleges for further information about the institution and then links to their programs.

Peterson’s Education Center (www.petersons.com/) Peterson’s guides have long been the benchmark for educational program databases; now this useful guide is online with various ways to research post-secondary education programs.

Graduate Schools online Search Engine (www.gradschools.com) has a large database of graduate schoolsl anld you are able to select the geographic region you wish to study in.

Yahoo – Higher Education www.yahoo.com/education/higher_education) Another Yahoo site which offers information on a variety of higher education topics and allows you to search a large database of colleges and universities in Canada and the USA.

Researching Professional and Trade Associations

Job Futures – Associations (www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/JobFutures/english/volume1/assoc.htm) A website from Human Resources and Development Canada. This particular component of the site has industries sorted according to the National Occupational Code with direct links to the appropriate association in Canada.

Researching Employers

Canada Yellow Pages (http://www.canadayellowpages.com)

To find some of the hot companies in Canada, check out: Canadian Business 500 www.canbus.com/CB500/p500.htm

RESEARCHING JOB OPPORTUNITIES

The Job Bank by Human Resources Development Canada is a database with links to a variety of job listings (http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/common/work.shtml#job)

CACEE’s Campus WorkLink (http://www.CampusWorklink.com/) is a listing of employers seeking recent graduates – you can have a look at this site if your post-secondary institution is a member of CACEE

RESEARCH FUTURE TRENDS

Prospects Today (http://prospects.skillnet.ca/) is an interesting site that offers daily labour market news and links to hot industries and occupations.