Interactive Worksheets

If you work for someone, you can earn a living 2 different ways: as an employee or as a contractor. Knowing which type is best for you will help you decide how you want to plan your career.

Understand the Difference Between Employment and Contracting

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Easy Reading: Make Some Job Choices

These Easy Reading articles will teach you about different jobs. They will help you find jobs that interest you.

Learn More About Yourself

Plan Your Career

Explore Education and Training

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Setting up a spending plan before you start school can help you manage your money and save you a lot of stress.

Create a Student Spending Plan

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To do well at school, you have to know how to conduct yourself as you work with classmates, instructors, and others involved in your learning. When you know what’s expected of you, you’ll do better at school, in your future jobs, and in your every-day life.

Success at School: It’s About More Than Marks

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Most jobs in Alberta need strong English skills. If English is not your first language, you may need to improve your reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills when you come to Alberta. As a newcomer, you can find many classes to improve your English.

Build English Language Skills as a Newcomer

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There are many questions you need to answer before choosing a school. This interactive worksheet will help you find the information you need.

Questions to Ask When Researching Schools

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Find out what questions to ask employers when trying to find the education and career that's best for you.

Questions to Ask Employers When Researching the Job Market

Mature Students

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Make your own back to school plan to help you reach your goals for becoming a student again.

Mature Students: Make Your Back to School Plan

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Complete this exercise to help you identify the things in life that might keep you from being successful in your return to school.

Mature Students: Are You Ready to Be Successful in School?

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Find out how to get the help and support you'll need to manage the challenges of going back to school as an adult.

Mature Students: Get the Support You Need

Easy Reading

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Decide what dreams you want to make real. This will help you find the right training for you.

Make a Plan to Reach Your Training Goal

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Learn how to do an information interview. This will help you learn about the job you want. It will let you know if your training goal is right for you.

Find Out if Your Training Goal is a Good Goal

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Think about the skills you have and the new skills you need for the job you want.

Think About Your Skills

Look for Work

Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interviews

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Build your master resumé with this online template that guides you through everything you need to capture your work history.

Build Your Master Resumé

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Writing a clear, strong cover letter will catch the employer’s attention and increase your chances for an interview.

Cover Letters Open the Door to an Interview

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One of the main steps in getting ready for an interview is to review common interview questions and prepare answers.

My Answers to Common Interview Questions

Job Loss Checklists

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What to Do First After Job Loss — Checklist

Use this checklist to make sure you've dealt with the most important things right after losing your job. The sections on this checklist correspond to the 5 things to take care of in What to Do First After Job Loss.

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How to Cope with Job Loss — Checklist

Use this checklist as you deal with your reactions to job loss. The sections on this checklist correspond to the 5 tips in How to Cope with Job Loss.

Moving Forward After Job Loss — Checklist

Use this checklist as you move into the next stage of life after losing your job. The sections on this checklist correspond to the 4 steps in Moving Forward After Job Loss.

Exercises to Help You Cope With Job Loss

Assess Your Behaviour

When people feel they have lost control over their lives, they sometimes compensate by becoming overly critical of people and things around them. Do you have this tendency?

Assess Your Physical Well-Being

It's important to take care of yourself and pay attention to what your body is telling you. Are you paying attention to your body?

Assess Your State of Mind

It’s important to keep things in perspective and to stay as positive as you can. What are you saying to and about yourself?

Assess Your Emotions

Feelings of frustration, depression, worry, and anger will come and go as you adjust to losing your job. How did you feel right after losing your job? How are you feeling now?

Take Care of Yourself

Caring for yourself and nurturing your spirit will help you cope with the challenges in your life. Think of the things you enjoy doing, and make time to treat yourself to them.

Build Your Support Network

No one makes it alone. Give others a chance to help you cope with your job loss.

Stay Positive

Different strategies work for different people. Give your self-esteem a boost by making 1 or more of these lists.

Skills and Accomplishments

Use this form to write down as many of your own core skills as you can. List any skill that you are able to perform as well as most people. You don’t have to be an expert at something to add it to the list.

Identify Your Core Skills

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Every job requires certain work-specific skills. The better you know and can describe your skills, the better your chances of landing the job you want.

Identify Your Work-Specific Skills

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When you’re self-employed, much of your success will depend on having the right skills. These foundational skills will help in every aspect of your work.

Self-Employment Skills to Help You Succeed

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Your accomplishments are what you achieve when you use your skills. Employers will be even more impressed by your skills if you describe the positive results you have achieved.

Recognize Your Accomplishments

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What have you done that makes you proud? This exercise will help you identify your own accomplishments.

How to Identify Your Accomplishments

Work Search

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My Work Search Plan and Record

Putting a work search plan in writing will help you set goals and deadlines for your search. It will also help you keep track of what you have done.

Understand Your Work Preferences

To find work that’s the best fit for you, you’ll need to understand your work preferences. These preferences will reflect your most important skills, interests, and values.

Decide What Questions to Ask in an Informational Interview

Use this exercise to help you choose the most useful questions to ask in your informational interview.

Succeed at Work

Positivity Works

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Succeed at Work

Build Positive Relationships

Are you doing your part in creating positive relationships in your life? Learn how to deal well with others and make a positive difference in your life and attitude.

Succeed at Work

How Does Your Attitude Measure Up?

To find out how positive your attitude is, try this quick quiz.

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Succeed at Work

Move Forward With Positive Thoughts

If you change a picture frame, the picture itself can look very different. Try these suggestions to reframe self-defeating thoughts into positive ones.

Job Enrichment

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Decide what dreams you want to make real. This will help you find the right training for you.

Make a Plan to Reach Your Training Goal

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Learn how to do an information interview. This will help you learn about the job you want. It will let you know if your training goal is right for you.

Find Out if Your Training Goal is a Good Goal

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