Links
Professional Associations
- Canadian Association of Career Educators & Employers (CACEE) is a national non-profit partnership of employer recruiters and career services professionals. Our mission is to provide authoritative information, advice, professional development opportunities and other services to employers, career services professionals, and students.
- Canadian Association for Co-operative Education (CAFCE) is a resource for educators, students and employers interested in the co-operative education process. Members from colleges, universities, government and business sectors join in CAFCE to actively advocate and promote post-secondary co-operative education.
- Canadian Information Processing Society, Vancouver Section is decicated to sharing ideas, networking with fellow professionals, and learning about coming changes in the technology, practices, and management of information systems.
- Certified General Accountants Association of B.C. (CGA-BC) is the governing and regulatory body for the 12,000 CGAs and students in B.C.
- Certified Management Accountants (CMA) of B.C. is a self-regulating body that grants a professional designation in management accounting and regulates its members under the authorization of provincial legislation.
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC provides education, regulation, and member services programs for chartered accountants.
- The American Marketing Association Page is one of the largest professional associations for marketers with 38,000 members worldwide in every area of marketing.
Advice and Tips for your Job Search
- The University of Waterloo Career Development eManual will guide you through the different stages of career planning and effective job hunting.
- Workapedia.ca is a one-stop web tool that connects you to resources such as occupational profiles, labour market information, training pathways, apprenticeship, accreditation and certification, job search tools and many other types of assistance from more than 30 sector councils.
- The Riley Guide introduces you to the online job search, listing many online sites and services that are useful for your job search.
- Job Boom is a usefuly site developed by Human Resources Development Canada.
- Monster.com's Virtual Interview Centre lets you practice interviewing in a safe environment. It contains a range of interview questions you can expect to tackle in a real job interview. Industry specific.
- Essential Skills - Human Resources Development Canada discusses the nine Essential Skills needed for work and explores occupational profiles to see how these skill are used.
- Canadian Careers.com contains Career and employment information for Canadians
- Know Your Type has information about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
- Keirsey.com has info on the Keirsey Character Sorter.
- Quintessential Careers has a helpful cover letter tutorial as well as other resources.
- Proven Resumes contains resume writing tips.
- Peer Resources provides information and contacts on mentoring programs.
Job Boards
- Workinfonet BC posts jobs, education, career and labour market info and researchs new sites so you don't have to. Each URL is categorized and described in a searchable database. Quick and easy career info.
- BC Jobs is a job board for openings in British Columbia.
- Career Owl has a job board and a good resource section which includes career planning, resumes, coverletters and interviews.
- Canada Jobs has a job board as well as a source for job search "how-to" articles and tips.
- Vancouver Jobs has employment listings in Vancouver .
- Tech Jobs Canada has a job board for high tech jobs in Canada.
- Working Canada lists Canadian jobs advertised in the Careers section of newspapers published by CanWest.
- Public Service Commission of Canada job board has postings for students, recent grads and seasoned professionals.
- Workopolis Campus is a job site for Canadian students.
- Craigslist.org is a popular site containing jobs listings and classified ads
Labour Market Information
- Job Futures is one of HRDC's premiere labour market information Web sites.
- Work Futures BC provides a comprehensive description of close to 200 occupations as they relate directly to the BC labour market.
- BC Checkup is a report produced annually by the Insititue of Chartered Accountants of BC to measure the province's overall health.
- Salary Expert answers questions about salary by profession and location. Reports are available for all major cities and regions in Canada and the United States.
Volunteering
- Charity Village contains 3,000 pages of news, jobs, information and resources regarding the non-profit sector.
- GoVolunteer maintains a database of volunteer positions available in Alberta and British Columbia.
- Volunteer Vancouver offers a variety of services to help you find the perfect volunteer opportunity.
Education
- CA School of Business http://www.casb.com If you live in western or northern Canada, you obtain your CA designation by enrolling in the CA School of Business.
Other
- The Employment Standards Branch handbook administers the Employment Standards Act and Regulation, which set minimum standards of wages and working conditions in most workplaces.
- Job Safe Canada is a site dedicated to health and safety on the job.
- Strategis (Business Info) is Industry Canada's online resource to provide business and consumer information to Canadians.