Career Information Internet Sites
HRDC NS Website
HRDC Nova Scotia’s website gives you access to information on Job Listings for your area and beyond. The Career Assistance section can help you prepare your resume and prepare for an interview, or link you to training and education. There is also a wealth of information on Department Programs and Services.
NS Labour Market Information
Our Labour Market Information section gives you information on industries, occupations, upcoming opportunities and current news stories about your local communities. The Occupation Summaries provide many details on over 500 occupations in Nova Scotia.
REALM Magazine
Life and work in your twenties.
The WORK Place
This is an excellent one-stop online resource that gives you direct access to daily want ads from more than 40 major daily newspapers all across Canada and lets you check out work opportunities from all over Canada and beyond. You can learn about the latest information on resume writing and preparing for an interview and get up to date information to help you plan and manage your career.
Work Search
A resource designed to guide Canadians through all aspects of the work search process. People looking for work, youth planning their careers, adults re-entering the workforce, and employed persons contemplating a career change can benefit from Work Search.
Front Line
A wealth of expertise and insight to construction and industrial companies nationwide.
Work Destinations
This site has a wide range of work-related and other practical information needed by mobile workers in Canada. It includes occupation-specific information on work conditions; placement and recruitment; labour market information; local living conditions and social services; and training and educational opportunities.
Canada Student Loans Program
This site gives you the basics about federal loans and grants available to students at the post-secondary level. It offers budget planning charts and examples of your loan repayment, information of how to qualify for student loans, and explains how to apply for graduate studies’ loans.
Occupational & Career Development –Human Resources Partnership Directorate
This site will help you select and plan for your career with direct links to interactive quizzes, career publications and on-line software.
Making Career Sense of Labour Market Information
This publication is an introduction to the different parts of the labour market and how they interact. It is designed so a reader with very little knowledge in this area can get an overview and a sense of how knowledge of the labour market can be a great help in making career decisions.
Job Futures-Canada
Job Futures provides occupational information on hundred of occupations from a national perspective. Job Futures will be useful for all Canadians who are interested in the current and future labour market and the links between education and the labour market.
Canada Work InfoNET
The primary source of career, education, and labour market information for Canadians. This site is a partnership of Canadian organizations with an interest in human resource development.
National Labour Market Information
This service provides general and detailed information on local labour markets across Canada including information on our economy, the worker-employer marketplace, employment trends and the new world of work.
Youth Resource Network of Canada
This site was created to help youth bridge the gap between school and the labour market. It makes available to them a great deal of information that will be useful in each stage of a job-hunting effort.
Job Profiles
This site covers the personal side of work. It advocates a good fit between your interests and your chosen field as the number one correlation for your success.
Career Options
This site provides career-planning information. Learn about various career choices, how changes in the NS Labour Market may affect your career choices, and where to get skills and training you need.
The Edge Magazine
The Edge is a unique magazine which encourages teens to think about their future and the importance of getting an education. It contains articles on career development as well as self-directed exercises to develop a better understanding of one’s self and the world of work.