Downloadable Resources

Select publications are available on line in PDF or HTML format.

• Canada Prospects 2007-2008
  Offers job seekers and people in career transition insightful tips and strategies for connecting with employers across the country.
• Canada Prospects 2007-2008 Facilitator Guide
  A collection of easy to deliver hands-on activities that educators and practitioners can use with students, other youth and adults in career transition to apply the career information tools presented in Canada Prospects.
• Getting Started 2007-08
  A practical guide to organizing your own Canada Career Week event (big or small), including tips on how to build your event team, secure sponsors and attract media attention.
• Canada Prospects 2006-2007
  A full-colour interactive magazine featuring personal career stories, insights from employers and hands-on tools to help readers acquire the skills employers look for, find the work they love and build the life they want.
• A Career Development Resource for Parents: Helping Parents Explore the Role of Coach and Ally
  This guide helps parents explore the role of coach and ally as they help their adolescent children decide on their future careers. Building on research that shows parents are the most important influence on their children, the guide provides suggestions on career planning, how to talk to teens about career choices and how to find an ally who can help prepare young people for entry into the workforce
• Career Directions - Occupations: University not Required
  A resource catalogue profiling 186 occupations that require education or training other than university.
• Career Directions Facilitator Guide
  Designed for teachers, counsellors and facilitators, Show them the way, this partner to Career Directions, offers an array of exercises and activities, overheads and participant worksheets to help you make the most of Career Directions with your students and clients.
• Career Resources: Planning for Success
  This guide aims to support and assist the efforts of career-related resource producers.
• Essential Skills: Take them with You (Poster)
• Ignition
  Ignition is a resource profiling Canada’s sector councils created for high school, college and university graduates.
  Making Career Sense of Labour Market Information, 2nd Edition
  This text is available in hard copy (see the catalogue) or online. It explains in basic, introductory terms what labour market information is and how it can be applied to career development. It includes updates on the Sector Councils, industry changes and forecasts, new community college and university programs, web site references and dynamic strategies and skills for staying marketable in a changing labour market.
• Making Waves: Career Development and Public Policy
  These are the proceedings of the 1999 inaugural Symposium on career development and public policy.
• Permanent Cat
  In response to popular demand, we're pleased to provide a copy this story by Michelle Tocher. For more magical stories, check out A Seeker's Storybook and other Tocher publications in the catalogue.
• The Work Handbook
  This Handbook will be useful if you're facing or thinking about career changes that will affect you and your family.
• Working Connections: Papers and Proceedings, 2003
  This book represents the most comprehensive database ever available in Canada on career development services. It includes all pre-Symposium papers prepared by provincial/territorial and national organization teams who attended the first pan-Canadian Symposium on Career Development, Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development (November, 2003), as well as a summary of the content, results and recommendations from the Symposium itself.