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Learn More About Yourself
Identify and record your personal career assets like abilities, accomplishments, and interests. Learn more about your core skills and traits and be able to apply them to a new job or even a new way of working.
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Plan Your Career

Get to Know Yourself

Knowing what to do after high school starts with knowing yourself. Take the first steps by understanding your values, interests, and abilities.
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Plan Your Career

The Tendencies That Make You Tick

We all have personal characteristics or personality types that cause us to act in certain ways. If you want to find work that makes the most of your strengths, it pays to recognize what comes naturally to you—and what does not.
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CAREERinsite

Understand Your Interests

Learn how the 5 types of interests are defined, where they come from, and how you can use them to spot occupations that might be a good fit for you.
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CAREERinsite

Understand Your Abilities

Learn how the 9 types of abilities are defined, where they come from, and how you can use them to spot occupations that might be a good fit for you.
Learn About Your Skills
Succeed at Work

Skills for Success Videos

The 9 Skills for Success are a set of core skills that everyone needs to be successful in learning, work and life. The Government of Canada created these videos to show the benefits of developing the 9 skills and explain how each can be used in the workplace.
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Guide

How to List Your Skills, Abilities, and Accomplishments

You have important career assets to offer an employer. From a young age, you’ve learned and done useful and important things. Discover how to identify your skills, abilities, and accomplishments to make your work search tools stronger.

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Plan Your Career

Develop Your Core Skills and Traits

Most jobs require specific skills that relate to the work being done. But employers also look for softer core skills and traits that help their business run smoothly. You’ve been learning these skills throughout your life. Here’s how you can develop them…
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Look for Work

Know Your Core Skills and How to Sell Them

Employers look for a wide range of skills. Some skills relate to specific types of work. Others are core skills that you need for every job. If you know your core skills, you can use them to impress potential employers. This will help you land the job you want.
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Start Now to Build the Skills Employers Want

It’s a skills-based world out there, and many employers are specific about the skills they want. Start building your skills when you’re still in high school—or even in junior high. You’ll soon be able to show employers you’ve got the skills you need for the job.

Identify Your Core Skills

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.
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Identify Your Work-Specific Skills

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.
Career Theories
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Plan Your Career

Holland Codes: Unlock a Career Choice That Feels Right

Holland’s theory of career choice uses self-assessment of personality traits to reveal what kind of career you’ll be good at and enjoy.
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Plan Your Career

Planned Happenstance: Make Your Own Career Luck

Sometimes, the perfect career finds us and not the other way around. It’s Krumboltz’s theory of planned happenstance, and it might work for you—if you let it.
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Plan Your Career

Bandura’s Theory: Go for the Career You Want

Bandura’s social cognitive theory looks at how we learn from social situations. It encourages people to set goals, achieve them, and stay positive on their career path.
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Plan Your Career

Super’s Theory: A Career Path That Evolves With You

A career path is typically full of twists and turns. Super's developmental self-concept theory can help you understand and direct your path in a way that fits each stage of your life.
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Plan Your Career

Parsons’ Theory: Match Your Traits to Career Factors

Parsons’ trait and factor theory of career planning is simple: Study yourself. Study the world of work. Find a match.
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Plan Your Career

Find Your Way on a Shifting Career Path

You think you know what your career might look like. Then something shifts, and suddenly your life or your options are not the same. How can you plan your career with so much uncertainty? Learn how to thrive in a world of choice and opportunity.
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Plan Your Career

Your Passion Can Inspire Your Future Career

Imagine looking forward to going to work each day. Significant experiences in your past can lead to work that you believe in and that you love to do. Use these activities to help you brainstorm careers that you can be passionate about.
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Plan Your Career

Fun Personality Tests to Guide Your Career

If you want to find a career that’s a good match for who you are, you need to learn more about yourself. How do you think? What makes you tick? How do you work best? Use these personality tests and self-assessment tools to get to know yourself better.
Plan Your Career

Life Influences

There are a number of life influences that affect our personal traits including our gender, cultural background, and our learning experiences. By thinking about how these factors have influenced us, we can gain some understanding into tendencies that can be very important assets.
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Plan Your Career

Consider Your Resources

Choosing your resources gives you the knowledge you need to follow the work options most important to your background and situation.