DECISIONS!! DECISIONS!!

What is a Career?

• A CAREER is the sum total of your life experiences including paid and unpaid work, and community, volunteer and family activities.

  How do you know which career is for you?

  Are you ready to decide about what your career will be? There are many factors that influence your readiness to undertake effective career planning. You may choose to take a short survey that will help you analyze your readiness.

   

  Where to start?

  Once you have decided that you are ready to start the career planning process, you have many decisions to make, and the Internet is a HUGE place. Even if you had the time, you couldn't possibly find all the resources out there that may provide you with the best information. To give you a little help, this site contains lists of links that will help you achieve personal growth and success.

  How to get started?

  The best spots within the selected sites have been linked directly for you. You can either return to the Home Page or go to the navigation buttons at the bottom of this page in order to go through the sections one section at a time.

  Some of you like structure and would rather go through the whole career planning process one step at a time. If this is you, you can work your way through the University of Waterloo Career Planning Manual.

  If you would rather start by picking up a good magazine you can check out FutureScan Magazine. This is an interactive career guide for teenagers which includes articles to help teens with school, work, and career planning.

  The sites are listed alphabetically and in some cases identified the sites as to their source. It might be important to be aware of the source of the information, whether it was Canadian or American based.