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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.
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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Know Yourself

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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Know Yourself

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
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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

You may have the right kind of training for a specific job. But employers also need people with broader life skills. Find out what skills you already have and how to gain or improve the ones you need.
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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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Explore Education and Training

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.
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Explore Education and Training

Many Training Paths Develop Skills and Knowledge

There may be more than one way to acquire the skills and knowledge you need to make your next career move. Find out more about the training paths that may be available to you.
Look for Work

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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Look for Work

Identify Your Work-Specific Skills

The better you can describe your workplace skills and accomplishments, the stronger the impression you’ll make on potential employers.
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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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.
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Plan Your Career

Passion and Why It's Important to Your Work

Thinking about the things you are passionate about can give you a better understanding of the types of activities you enjoy and the environments in which you would enjoy working. You are far more likely to thrive, not just survive, in your career if you consider these things when you are career building.
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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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