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Are you feeling stalled or bored on the job? Do you want to revisit your career plan? These workplace resources can help you advance toward a more rewarding career.
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New service for Albertans! Connect with an alis career coach to get personalized advice and actionable next steps for your career, learning, or work. Book your career coach today.
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Grow Your Career

Get insight into your career progression or revisit your career plan. 

Career Progression

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Succeed at Work

Make Positive Career Moves with Career Laddering

How’s your career going these days? Time to make your job more rewarding? Or to move on? Learn how to improve and renew your career with career laddering.
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How Upskilling Advances Your Career

Whether you’re looking to keep up with changing job requirements, move forward in your career, or just discover a fresh challenge, upskilling offers a practical approach.
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Plan Your Career

Micro-Credentials Can Boost Your Career

Micro-credentials are a hot topic in higher education and industry. Because they help workers train quickly for new jobs and careers, micro-credentials are changing how society views and uses higher education. What could this mean for you?
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Look for Work

Use Labour Market Information to Boost Your Career

You want to make good education and career decisions. Discover how labour market information can help you find trends and opportunities in the job market.
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Succeed at Work

Find Out if a Promotion Is the Right Move for You

You’ve just been offered a promotion—congratulations! But is that promotion the right move for you? To help you decide, consider your answers to these 7 questions.
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Plan Your Career

When 9 to 5 Is Not Enough: Build a Career You Love

The labour market is changing fast. Some workers—especially younger ones—are finding opportunity by building non-traditional careers that fit their specific wants and needs. Could a non-linear career path be right for you?
Tools and Resources

FutureConnect—Free Alis Career Coaching

Need help with your career? Book an online appointment with an alis Service Navigator or Career Coach for personalized advice, career planning support, and actionable next steps tailored to your goals.
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What Makes a Good Manager?

Moving into a management role is an important step in many career paths. Here’s how to tell if a management career might be a good fit for you, what makes a good manager, and how you can learn to be one.
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How to Ask for Bonuses, Salary Raises, and Promotions

Learning how and when to ask for greater rewards at work is an important skill that can help you advance your career.
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How to Impress Senior Leadership

That first meeting with upper management can take place any time—in an interview, during a presentation, in the hallway, or during drinks after work. Our best advice? Be prepared.

Retraining: How to Launch a New Career

Your career journey will likely include multiple careers over the course of your life. With each new career, you may need different skills and knowledge. If you’re exploring training options for a new career, these resources can help.

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Mature Students: Make Your Back to School Plan

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

Revisit Your Career Plan

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CAREERinsite

Reflect on Your Career Plan

At any point in the career planning process, it's normal to feel overwhelmed. You're gathering information, identifying and comparing options, thinking about next steps. When you're engaged in this process, you're balancing many large and small concerns that could have a profound effect on your future.
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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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Navigate These 5 Stages to Make the Most of Your Career

Your career journey will be long and varied. A good roadmap can show you where you are now and what you need to do to reach the future you want.
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Plan Your Career

Use AI to Plan Your Career

Discover artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can help match you to your ideal career path, understand the job market and industry trends, and provide personalized career advice.
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Plan Your Career

Set SMARTER Goals

Your dreams for your future can be powerful motivators. But, to achieve them, you need to set goals. By taking the SMARTER approach, you’ll be better equipped to face challenges and make changes in your life and career.
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Explore Education and Training

Many Training Paths Develop Skills and Knowledge

Are you wondering how to get the career you want? Do you know how to build the skills and knowledge you need? There may be more than one way. Find the training path that’s right for you.
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Succeed at Work

Position Yourself as a Valued Employee

Do you want to be recognized as a valuable employee? To be considered for promotions? To improve your earning potential? Get more out of your job by putting more into it. Here’s how to stand out at work for all the right reasons.
Succeed at Work

Find and Work with a Mentor

A mentor is a trusted advisor who guides and encourages you in your career. Having a mentor can help you succeed at your workplace and in your career.
Make Career Decisions
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Manager or Expert: Choosing Your Path

If you’ve done well at your job, meeting targets and wowing senior leaders with your expertise, you may be offered a role in management. But is management the right path for you?
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How to Make Big Career Decisions

Making big decisions is about taking control of your life. Here’s some advice on how to make important career decisions with confidence.
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Trust Your Head and Heart to Make Good Career Decisions

There are 2 basic approaches to making a good decision. Neither is right or wrong but they’re very different. When you’re faced with a major career decision, take the time to consider which approach works best for you.
Revisit Going Back to School