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Interactive Worksheets

These interactive worksheets, including exercises, quizzes, and checklists, are tools that help you plan your career, explore education, look for work, and succeed at work. Convenient and easy to fill out, your answers can be saved, printed, or emailed.

Plan Your Career

Quizzes to Get to Know Yourself

It’s time to get to know yourself. Take one or more of the quizzes to help plan your career path.

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.
Woman sitting on floor while looking at papers and laptop.

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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Develop Your Action Plan

Your action plan defines how you will accomplish your goal. The first step is to break things out into manageable pieces.

Explore Education and Training

Job Loss Checklists

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.

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.
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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.
Job Enrichment

Get and Keep the Work You Want

A positive attitude will help you find a good job. And it will help you hold on to your work in a competitive market.

Guide to Managing Career Transitions

A career change can be hard, especially if you didn’t expect it. Learn about the 3 stages that most people go through when adjusting to change.
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Make Your Job More Rewarding

Bored at work? Thinking about quitting or looking for a new job? What if you could make your current job more rewarding? Check out these strategies.
Self-Development

Gain Control in Key Areas of Your Life

Change is part of life. No one is in control of everything all the time. When life hits you with the unexpected, you can reset your expectations and regain control.

Increase Satisfaction in Key Areas of Your Life

Assess how you feel about the important aspects of your life, and develop a plan to make your career and personal life more satisfying.

Create a Balanced Lifestyle

Would you like more time to do what you want to do? More balance between your work life and your home life? Try these strategies to balance your lifestyle.

Cope With Stress

How stressed are you? Do you know how to avoid or handle stress? Try these strategies to cope with the stress you face at work.

Take Charge of Your Learning at Work

Are you a lifelong learner? Are you finding new opportunities to learn? Find out with this online quiz. Then take charge of your own learning at work.

A Positive Attitude Will Help You Learn

Being a successful learner starts with having a positive attitude toward learning.

Learn How to Change the Things You Can Change

Sometimes we're stopped from reaching our career goals by things we can actually change. Learn how to improve your career by changing the things you can.

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.

Time-Saving Tools for Busy Lives

When you start to feel overwhelmed, it's time to pick up some organizational tools and create the time and space you need to focus on the things that are important to you.

Improve Your Body Language Skills

Our actions can speak louder than our words. This Easy Reading article explains why it's important to know the message you're sending with your body language.