Most people will need to engage in career planning at intervals throughout their lives, whether as workers, learners or job seekers.
As an educator, career practitioner or other service provider, you play a key role in explaining and guiding the career planning process. The following collection of career planning tools and information will support your efforts and connect your students or clients to ideas and options for the future.
Career Planning Resources
The pages of BC Work Futures feature profiles of over 500 occupations in our province, as well as a number of B.C. industries. You’ll also find worker personal profiles and articles on career planning.
What’s Key in LMI for BC guides career practitioners, young people and adult job seekers toward selected career, learning and labour market information resources.
Education Planner’s Career Developer provides free access to a wide range of career development resources. Check out the Educators tab for lesson plans, handouts and activities.
Sector Resources
Some sector councils and associations have created lesson plans, activities and materials specifically for use by educators and counsellors. Explore the following examples for an idea of what is available.
The Industry Training Authority’s YES 2 IT Program is designed to increase awareness of trades as a potential career path among students in grades 6 to 9. Click the resources tab for program information for K-12 educators, useful links and more.
Investigate these sites for additional examples of sector resources:
- BC Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation
- Mineral Resources Education Program of British Columbia
- New Car Dealers Association of B.C.
- Generation-E: A New Brand of Engineer
- ExploreTextiles.ca
Career Blogs
Career blogs can offer you and your clients a range of practical information. While some blogs focus on a particular audience or region, many articles will be relevant and useful to others.
Simon Fraser University’s Career Services Informer (CSI) Blog is a useful resource for students looking for up-to-date career articles, upcoming events, links to job postings and more.
The Career Centre blog provides local labour market information and news about upcoming events for job seekers in the Parksville/Qualicum area and the mid-Island.
COMPASS: Setting Career Direction offers a career blog featuring news articles on career development and employment. A categories index allows you to zero in on sectors and topics of interest.
Annual Career Events
Annual events provide an opportunity to raise awareness of careers and the world of work. Websites that promote these events provide information and ideas you can use with your students or clients.
Skilled Trades Week in Canada is an annual event that promotes and raises awareness of skilled trades to parents, youth and the general public.
Take Our Kids to Work Day is an annual national program in which grade 9 students are hosted by parents, relatives and volunteers at workplaces across the country. The program helps students connect school, the world of work and their own futures. Click on the Resources tab for a teachers guide and school poster.
Make use of our Career Pathways section for more career planning resources.
