Planning Your Future
High Five Messages
Career planning experts have developed the High Five messages, as a foundation for successful career and life planning:
Message #1: Follow Your Heart
People are happiest and do their best when doing what they love.
Message #2: Access Your Allies
Involve others in your career planning: family, neighbours, coaches, teachers and friends. You may also find helpful people at local employment and career centres in the community.
Message #3: Change is Constant
Both in work and in life, change is constant and can create opportunities. Be flexible, versatile and adaptable to harness the power of change.
Message #4: Learning is Lifelong
As the world continues to change, you must continue to learn. Learning how to learn is an important skill to master.
Message #5: Focus on the Journey
Life is a journey of experiences with destinations or goals, as stopping points, along the way. These goals may be achieved, revised or new goals may be set, as you continue on your journey.
Definitions
Before you begin career planning, it is important to understand the terms work, job, occupation and career.
Work is anything that is done for paid employment or unpaid volunteering.
A job is the activity that you do at a particular place of employment.
An occupation is a category of jobs that require similar training and have similar responsibilities
A career is a combination of your life experiences: your education, paid work, volunteer work, marital status, family responsibilities, hobbies, leisure and retirement activities, as well as other lifestyle choices you make throughout your lifetime.
Career planning is the process of developing your roles and using your experiences to create the life you want to live. Since these roles and experiences are forever changing, it is important to understand that career planning is a very dynamic process and you will continue to evaulate and adjust your career plans in response to external factors such as changes in the workplace, and internal factors such as a shift in interests or a change in life circumstances.
What do you want to be when you grow up? Explore Here....
Having trouble deciding on possible Career Paths? Here are some tools that may help you find some online direction:
My Blueprint: NESD Students and Staff have access to login with their school account.
Discover the Engineer in You - Explore Engineering - grades 9-12
Explore the Career Wheel - from UCalgary. UCalgary Career Services Degree Profiles
Young Canadians: This site is maintained by the Federal government and it includes information on resumes, travel opportunities, student loans, etc.
Jobbank: The Career section specifically has some interest and personality quizzes that may reveal some career areas you haven’t considered
Alberta Careers, Learning and Employment Information: an Alberta based site focusing on post-secondary, career planning, financing education, job search, etc. The Plan Your Career Insite portion deals specifically with helping you determine a suitable path with quizzes, etc.
Relevance Magazine: an online publication for students about trends in careers and skills needed. You can also access back issues below the current one.
Career Clarity Guide: a workbook to help you turn your passions into a career
Regina District Industry Education Council You Tube Channel: RDIEC has recorded numerous spotlight on career presentations. An excellent way to check into areas that interest you.
Work BC Career Compass: Discover potential career paths with abilities, work preferences and subject quizzes.
Holland Code Career Test: Answer some basic questions and see what careers it suggests (PS…my results said a high school teacher and career counselor…maybe this is pretty accurate 😉)
Discover Your Creative Type: Take the test and see!
A link to a number of Career and Personality Tests: Try them out and see what is revealed
Saskatoon Industry Education Council Spotlight on Careers Video Series: Pick from the sectors on the left and see the career high light video.
USASK Sparks: SparkPath tool that uses intuitive "challenge cards," you will have the opportunity to explore your passions, the challenges you are interested in solving in your career, and the many pathways to different industries and jobs that will help you tackle those challenges.
TEDtalk - What do you want to be when you grow up?
RBC Upskill - career assistant
Connecting Saskatchewan: Contact360 - https://contact360.ca/
myBlueprint - links on the High School Planning page
Explore these Career Clusters...
Many careers may be may be categorized under more than one career clusters.
Specific career information and specific news and updates has been provided for each tab.