Nice to meet you
Alis is excited to connect with career advisors through the Western Canada Career Development Association. We wanted to introduce who we are and how we can assist you to help your clients reach their career goals.
Alis, pronounced—“Alice”—was once an acronym for Alberta Learning and Information Service. As the scope of alis expanded beyond education information, we’ve outgrown the acronym. We now use “alis” as our brand name and strive to make it a moniker that’s synonymous with career, education, and training information.
What does alis offer?
We offer tools and resources for students, job seekers, educators, and career development experts for every step of the career journey. While we cater the website to Albertans, our reach is far greater. In the last year, alis has seen approximately 14 million pageviews, including over 600,000 pageviews from British Columbia and thousands more from countries like Singapore, England, and the Philippines.
Alis helps students and job seekers plan their education, choose a career, find employment, and thrive at work. We also have targeted resources to assist specific audiences such as Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada.
Highlights of the site include:
Alis Tutorial Videos: Learn how to use the many features of the alis site, like creating an alis account, navigating job postings, and creating custom guides.
Inspire and Motivate Your Clients: Find resources to help your clients, students, children, and the people in your community as they plan and work toward their career goals.
Learn about the Labour Market: Find detailed information on occupations, including typical duties, salary, day-in-the-life videos, education and training requirements, current job postings, and more.
Career Planning: Explore career options and how to find one that’s right for you
Education and Training: Find info on post-secondary schools and programs, skills training, and apprenticeship
Job Search: Get advice on writing your resumé, succeeding in an interview, networking, and applying for work
Workplace Success: Learn about employment rights and standards, workplace safety, and how to advance your career
Specialized Support: Find resources for interprovincial work and diverse groups such as Indigenous people, mature workers, newcomers and people with disabilities
Interactive Tools: Do exercises to find your skills and interests, and complete worksheets to develop your career plan, prepare for interviews, and much more
What’s new on alis
Alis has just introduced several helpful updates and a new account feature to support career advisors working with multiple clients:
6 new occupational videos to provide insight into these occupations.
Find Your Fit updates
Find Your Fit now has an updated look and flow designed to promote a simpler, calmer user experience. Updates include:
Quizzes and Exercises section to improve quiz selection and management
My Top Matches section, where the user can see their top occupational matches based on which quizzes are completed or included in the results.
Resources For Me section that includes links to career planning and career theory articles to help users get the most out of Find Your Fit.
4 new career advice articles published on alis
The alis team has added new content to support trades, young Albertans, and the Canadian Armed Forces. CAF leads many to careers in a variety of skilled trades, and many continue to work in those trades after their service.
How can we help you?
As we continue our journey we want to hear from you and what your needs are. If you notice content gaps, please let us know and we will work quickly to address them. You can use our feedback form to provide suggestions. If you have questions or would like to know more about all we offer, please email us at alis.info@gov.ab.ca. You can also reach us by phone at 780-422-1794 (for toll-free access in Alberta, first dial 310-0000).