Explore Careers
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Credenda Partner
A fantastic website dedicated to helping you, the career explorer, zero in on tons of helpful career information is http://www.futurepaths.ca. Here Credenda partner FuturePaths offers a Saskatchewan online solution to connecting young people to careers and jobs. FuturePaths is also partnered with Steve's #1 choice CareerCruising.com. A short video is available to help you in navigating the site, and a specific link provided for "Youth" filled with things like a Self Assessment, Labour Market Information, Job Search link and Career Guide. You gotta check this site out.
Curious about a Particular Job?
You can read job profiles at http://alis.alberta.ca/ec/cp/oi/EasyReading.html. Each job profile has a story about a worker in that job. You can get many of your questions answered about a specific career and there is a Job Profile Dictionary to help define terms used.
Career Fit
Settling on a career can be a daunting task. You may ask; "What career would best fit the type of person that I am?". Knowing your personality type, as measured through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument can help you with career planning at every stage. Taking the Myers-Briggs Inventory can help you choose the courses to take in school, all the way to the career you choose.
Interested in the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory? (It is free to Credenda eStudents.) Email Steve Winkler at steve.winkler@credenda.net and he will guide you through the two stage process.
Steve Says
Content on this page is recommended by Credenda's Guidance Counsellor Steve Winkler to help you find and plan your career.
Ranked #1 by Steve: CareerCruising.com
This website has it all. Create your own personal profile and have fun exploring.
- Log in with:
User name: citycentre
Password: ahre - Create your own profile
If you want to know about hundreds of career options and tons of information, this is the place to go. After creating your own profile, check out the many career paths that have video and speakers on whatever career you might be interested in. Steve rates this one a definite 10 out of 10.
Ranked #2 by Steve: CanLearn.ca
Everything at your fingertips on all aspects of education, careers, finance education, institutions, federal loans and grants etc. It even has a on-line Education Cost Calculator to help you see what you desired education will cost (use the Search tool and type in "Education Cost Calculator".Ranked #3 by Steve: O*Net Online.org
A great tool for career exploration and job analysis. Provides detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers and students and more. Plenty of occupational information at your finger tips. A must see for the career seeker in you.Ranked #4 by Steve: SaskJobFutures.ca
Here you will find jobs and career focus information specific to Saskatchewan. Browse this site to find out what people do, how much they earn and what they do to prepare for work in Saskatchewan
The Big Career Picture
Your Fairy Godmother appears and offers to give you magically all the skills, experience, and qualifications needed for any job in the universe. What job would you pick?
Statistics indicate that unlike previous generations of employees who tended to have one career and one employer, you may have many careers and many employers. This may take the pressure off your current career exploration. You are making an important decision but if you are not strongly attracted to a particular career, just go with the flow and pick one of interest. You can always make the decision to find and plan a new one later. Switching careers may be scary on all levels; financially, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, but not switching is scarier. People who do not live lives they love, are not doing themselves or the world any favours.
Frederick Buechner defines the perfect career or vocation as the "place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." Microsoft's legendary Bill Gates' deepest gladness for programming met with the world's deep hunger for communication and expression.
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey writes this about talent:
Through imagination, we can visualize the uncreated worlds of potential that lie within us. Through conscience, we can come in contact with universal laws or principles with our own singular talents and avenues of contribution, and with our personal guidelines within which we can most effectively develop them. Combined with self-awareness, these two endowments empower us to write our own script.
Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic. New York: Free, 2004. Print. p. 103
Our Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
"Our Greatest Fear Marianne Williamson." Explorers Foundation. Web. 22 Mar. 2010. <http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/122.html>.