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Career Exploration & Job Search Tools

Career Cruising: Research and explore detailed information about careers and educational programs using this multimedia online resource. Login using your Passport York account.

Career Cyberguide: Access career information 24/7 with this award-winning online resource designed especially for York students. Online video presentations and downloadable handouts combine the knowledge of career experts, employers, York alumni and students to bring you relevant career information.

Career Options magazine: For expert career advice and job opportunities in partnership with the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE).

Canadian Careers: Stay up to date with Canadian employment news, learn how to market yourself and explore hundreds of careers options.

Career Crate: Learn about career options by watching videos describing various jobs.

CareerXact: Offers free, online career assessments.

Contact Singapore: Launch a bright future in Singapore.

FreshTransition: a free web-based career management system that helps you set targets and organize your job search. FreshTransition tracks the details of all your activities—applications, interviews, discussions, documents—and organizes and stores them in one location. Receive reminders when you have something important coming up, as well as a weekly summary of your job search goals and accomplishments.

GlobaLinks Learning Abroad: offers unpaid international internships to students and new graduates. Participants have the opportunity to gain professional experience abroad in a wide variety of fields.

Going Global career and employment resources includes world-wide job openings, internship listings, 450,000 corporate profiles and country-specific career information. More than 30,000 pages of constantly-updated content is included on topics such as: work permit/visa regulations, resumé writing guidelines and examples, employment trends, salary ranges, networking groups, cultural/interviewing advice, corporate profiles, worldwide job listings, and much more! Login to this resource using your Passport York account.

Government of Canada: Look at your skills and interests, look at the world of work, make a plan, and manage your career.

The HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector's Career Explorer: Explore the possibilities and realities of work in Canada's nonprofit sector.

LinkedIn Grad Guide Videos: LinkedIn is a trusted social networking tool for professionals with over 200 million members, representing 148 industries and 200 countries. These step-by-step guides for new graduates will show you how to best use LinkedIn to create and manage your professional identity online, build and maintain a solid network of professionals in your field, and aid employers in finding you:

  1. What is LinkedIn? [5:07]
  2. Building your Professional Brand [4:07]
  3. Finding your Career Passion [4:27]
  4. Building a Professional Network [4:41]
  5. Turning Relationships into Opportunities [4:41]
  6. Researching and Prepping for Interviews [4:13]

Other useful resources from LinkedIn:

Science Magazine's Next Wave Webcast: Interested in a career in science? Get tips on presenting yourself effectively for a job in the private sector from a panel of scientists. This webcast was taped in 2005 and is 2 hrs, 1 min. in length.

Talent Egg: a Canadian career resource with job postings for internship and entry-level positions, information about Canada's top employers, articles and resources for students starting out in their first jobs, as well as a discussion board and a new online magazine called, Career Incubator!

Vault: Research careers and job searching on this website which features primarily information about the U.S. job market.

Youth Resource Network of Canada - Job Opportunities: Find out what you need to know about the world of work.

Occupational Research

Please Note: Descriptions of many of these online resources are taken from language used on external websites. Claims and opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Career Centre or York University.

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