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Essential Elements of Career Counseling: Processes and Techniques (Book)

Authors:  Norman Amundson, JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, and Spencer Niles -  Focuses on the practice of career counseling, examined through the basic techniques and resources useful in supporting the theories of career choice and development.

Building Brighter Futures (PDF)

Aims to equip practitioners and managers working with adults 18+ with arrange of effective approaches to career development and wellbeing support. 

The Career Development Model, Questions and Skills (PDF)

An outline of the CD model and associated questions for each phase of discussion.

Communication Skills (PDF)

Practicing the skills needed to establish collaborative working relationships.

Gender-Neutral Pronouns

Practicing gender neutral pronouns.

Job Bank - Career Planning (Federal Gov)

Walks individuals through the career planning process. (French and English)

ALIS - Career Planner (Alberta Gov)

A one-stop guide to career planning. Many activities are available in French and English.

The Balance Careers

Access to career planning tools and resources.

Manitoba Prospects

A resource to help students, parents and educators explore the many rewarding and enriching career opportunities available in a multitude of industries in Manitoba.

chatterhigh

A digital learning tool for K-12  with a gamified ‘seek-and-find’ activity is proven to expand awareness, foster hope, and better prepare students for life after high school.

MyBluePrint

Designed to help with secondary school course selections, and career planning for youth and young adults.

Career Cruising

Career Cruising is a self-exploration and planning program that helps people of all ages achieve their potential in career and life. Includes carious assessment tools and occupational and labour market information.

RBC Future Launch

Access to various career related resources including Future Launch Discover Quiz.

A Guide to Planning Your Career - Gov. MB (PDF)

Filled with information and activities to help individuals through the career planning process.

Career Decision Making workbook - CCDF (PDF)

Guides individuals through the career planning process and provides links to various assessment tools and LMI resources.

Career Planner - U of M

Includes links to a career planning guide, self assessment tools and other tools to guide one through an informed decision making process.

SoCanU

Inspirational video on successful school completion.

Developing a S.M.A.R.T. Career Plan

Learn how to develop S.M.A.R.T. goals to support your career planning.

5 steps to designing the life you want | Bill Burnett | TEDxStanford

Uses design thinking to see what you want to grow into next.

ACCESS Future in Focus Workshop Series

An adaptation of the Future in Focus series for youth and young adults outside of the educational system.

Career Gear: Supporting the Career Journey of Post-Secondary Students

Offers two 2-hour workshops to help PSE students to: see themselves in the future in a positive way; identify options in the labour market; develop the skills, attitudes and knowledge they need to reach their preferred future; and have a plan, with back-up strategies, to help them to take advantage of luck and move toward what is most important and meaningful to them.

Career Development Workshop (PDF)

Content to assist you in developing a client focused career planning workshop

Future in Focus: Building Career Resilience for Youth

​Includes four 2-hour workshops focused on helping youth in senior secondary school to develop the skills, attitudes, strategies and supports they need to build career resilience (with a 5th workshop to engage parents).

Job Bank Assessment Tools

Three career quizzes to find out what occupations may be a good fit for you. These quizzes will help you identify possible career paths based on what you like, strengths and you work preferences.

CERIC - Assessment Tool

List of free career assessment tools.

Career Professionals of Canada - Assessment Tools

List of free career exploration assessments that support awareness of skills, temperament, and abilities.

All Knowdell Card Sort Products

Access the array of cards sorts including values, motivated skills (identify transferable skills, motivated skills, skills to improve and burnout skills), occupational interests and Leisure/Retirement Activities.

My Next Move

Explore careers related to interests. This assessment Is based on The holland codes and link the user to suggested occupational areas to explore further.

Strong Interest Inventory

The Holland Occupational Themes is a theory of personality that focuses on career and vocational choice. It groups people on the basis of their suitability for six different categories of occupations. 

*Note: Must be administered by Certified SSI Professional, agencies/individual practitioners must have their own platform

Three Stories - OVRC (PDF)

Use stories to help identity interests, value, skills and strengths then relate to the world of work to identify occupational options.

Self Reflection Tool - OVRC (PDF)

Use self reflection to dig into areas of interest, skills, strengths and values.

Career Aptitude Assessment

Get career suggestions that match your skills and interests. Adjust the skill sliders, filter by desired salary and education level, and receive a list of career ideas using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

UM Values Card Sort (Web Sort)

This resource assesses values / work preferences. It is helpful in eliciting reflection on and conversations about values. It is useful in career planning, career decision-making, and describing the self for job search purposes.

O*NET - Work Importance Locator

A self-assessment career exploration tool that allows clients to pinpoint what is important to them in a job. It helps people identify occupations that they may find satisfying based on the similarity between their work values (such as achievement, independence, and conditions of work) and the characteristics of the occupations.

Winnipeg Transition Centre Values Cards - Access from WTC

This resource assesses values and is helpful in eliciting reflection on and conversations about values. Contact WTC for purchase.

How to use Knowdell Card Sorts (Video)

Video outlining how to use cards sorts and how to interpret.

High5Test

Helps individuals identify their strongest skills and qualities. *Note: Cost for full report

16 Personalities

Helps Individuals discover their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies. Immediate results, no email required. Reveals personality type based on psychometric research.

Truity

Access a suite of assessments including personality, career, work preference and more.

Myers Briggs

Must be administered by Certified Myers Briggs Professional.

Type Focus

Similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and estimates one's personality type using the preference pairs.

Enneagram Test

Each Enneagram personality type has specific behavioral tendencies, fears, desires, motivations and key traits. The Enneagram is a useful tool to learn about one's personality.

IKIGAI (career and personality)

Assessment presented individuals with a IKIGAI diagram, which includes one's passion, vocation, profession and mission. You may also buy the professional results which include a more detailed explanation of your personality.

Spark Path Challenge Cards

Enable career advisors to help students discover a career path based on exciting, real-world challenge, not job titles.

Skills for Success Assessments

Assesses nine skill areas - Reading, Writing, Numeracy, Communication, Digital, Collaboration, Problem Solving, Adaptability, and  Creativity/Innovation.

LinkedIn Career Explorer

Uncovers career paths by matching your skills to thousands of job titles helping find new jobs with the skills individuals already have.

Queen's Skills Sorter

Great for assessing skills and igniting conversation and reflection about existing skills and skill development. Useful for career planning and describing the self for job search purposes.

Queen's Skills Sorter

Helps clients identify skills and values, and in order of preference.

Pride Exercise - UBC

Assists in identifying "Skills and Knowledge"  that individuals had to use or develop in order to complete activities that were a source of pride.

Employability Skills Assessment (ESAT)

Provides a process and online supports for the assessment and development of social and emotional skills like attitude, accountability, confidence, adaptability, creativity, and collaboration so they can be treated as outcomes in your training or employment programs.

​Open Psychometrics - Other assessments

Free resource for agencies who do not have funding for paid assessments.

Imagine PhD

Interests, values and skills assessments for Masters & PhD students in Science. Interests and skill assessments match to areas of work.

Science Careers MyIDP

Exercises to help examine skills, interests, and values and link to career paths in science.

Career Action Plan

A planning document owned and managed by young people intended to reflect their increased career development learning. The plan helps young people to set their goals, clarify the actions needed to achieve these goals and commit to participating in the planned activities.

Occupational Review - OVRC (PDF)

Looks at one's employment history and identifies jobs there are passionate about.

Langara College (PDF)

Tips sheet that walks you through the career decision making process.

Numbeo

Numbeo is the world’s largest cost of living database. Numbeo is also a crowd-sourced global database of quality of life data: housing indicators, perceived crime rates, healthcare quality, transport quality, and other statistics.

World Trade Centre Winnipeg

Resources to starts and grow a business in Manitoba, Canada and internationally.

Futurepreneur

Provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39.

Entrepreneurs 15-30

Dedicated to young Francophones aged 15 to 30 in Canada to discover entrepreneurship, illuminate every step from idea to launch, and present resources in French.

Companies Office - MB Gov

Reviews proposed business names to make sure that they aren't confusingly similar to ones already on our record.

Women’s Enterprise Centre

Manitoba Credential Assessment

Identifies the agencies in Canada which conduct academic assessments/evaluations used to evaluate a credential (diploma, degree) earned outside of Canada to determine what it compares to in Canada.

Recognition Counts - Seed Winnipeg

Provides supports to skilled immigrants wishing to work in their fields of expertise or alternative career in Manitoba.The program offers financial counselling, as well as the opportunity to apply for a loan of up to $15,000 to help with the cost of having qualifications recognized in Manitoba.

Work in Manitoba

Information on regulated occupations include professions and trades.

Educational credential assessment (ECA) for Express Entry: How to get one

Learn about educational credential assessment and designated assessors 

Employment Links - Flin Flon LINK (PDF)

Assist clients to obtain criminal reference checks, drivers education, WHIMIS and I.D.

Employability Skills 2000+

Identifies the skills required to enter, stay and progress in the world of work.

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The Manitoba Association for Career Development (MACD) acknowledges we live and meet on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Anisininew, Dakota, Dene and the homeland of the Red River Metis peoples. Our association extends throughout Treaties 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. We respect the Treaties formed on these territories and recognize that We Are All Treaty People. We acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we commit to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities toward justice, equity, and reconciliation.

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