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You research information for decision making all the time.
You research information for decision making all the time.
to purchase a cell phone within your budget, to choose an apartment or house to live in, to choose the grocery store that suits your needs for products, price and location. You already have research skills. But you may NOT have experience in using those skills to research occupational information. This section will show you how.
This section includes resources and activities that will help you gather the information you need to make good decisions.
To start you will need your list of occupations of interest from SECTION 1 – Know Yourself and the Narrow Your Choices Worksheet. You can choose to research any or all of your choices.
Keeping track of your information
Keeping track of your information
It is important to keep track of your information so you can compare it and use it for your career decision. You can keep track in 3 ways.
Print the Occupation pages
Print the Occupation pages
Print the Occupation pages from the websites you use. Keep your printed pages in a file for later when you are comparing and choosing.
Complete online and save as PDFs
Complete online and save as PDFs
Save PDFs of the Occupational pages to your computer desktop or Cloud of choice (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive etc.,) and/or complete and save the online worksheets provided on the next pages.
Jot down information with pen and paper
Jot down information with pen and paper
Jot down information on each occupation on the worksheets provided on the next pages. It is helpful to write down your source in case you need to go back for more information.
Information may differ from different sources – you are gathering general information at this point. This will help you decide which occupation you want to pursue for a career and then you will investigate it in even more detail for your local situation.
Information may differ from different sources – you are gathering general information at this point. This will help you decide which occupation you want to pursue for a career and then you will investigate it in even more detail for your local situation.
Browse the activities and resources on this page, or click the 📒 Complete the Workbook button below and follow the same button to complete the workbook from 'front-to-back'.
Occupational Information
Occupational Information
Take a look at all the labour market resources that can help narrow your choices!
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