Who Is Entitled To Use These Services?

Career Counseling will help you consider the pros and cons of each possible option and help you select the one that best suits your needs. Educational and vocational planning and a referral to community services and agencies are available. Counseling is held in the strictest confidence.

All adults and students within the Great Plains College service area are entitled to visit a career counselor and use career services free of charge.

Services Offered

1. Academic Advising
   • Course selection
   • Timetables
   • Transfer credits and Recognition of Prior Learning
   • Admission requirements, etc.
   • Interest & values inventories and testing,
   • Access to on-line resources
2. Career Search Advising
   • Resume
   • Labour Market Information
   • Cover letters
   • Interviews
   • Portfolios

Why Use Career Services?

Plan your career by getting information about yourself and your options. If you have already chosen a career, make certain that you have the right requirements/prerequisites for any courses you may need to take.

If you are unemployed, thinking of changing careers, or just getting started in the job market, Career Services can help. Career Services can assist you with finding an academic direction, planning a program, admission and registration procedures. Career Services provides assistance and support for individuals to make career decisions and formulate educational plans.

Go to SaskNetWork: Canada-Saskatchewan Career and Employment Services website for further career information and job opportunities.

On-Line Counselling Tools

The resources and links in this section will allow you to learn more about career and education choices that might best suit you.

Who Am I?

Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site
This site provides an online assessment on personality and temperament.

"Who Am I?" Career Quizzes

Career quizzes that explore your work interests, preferences and styles and discover different career paths.

Exploring Careers

What Can I Do With A Major In...

This site provides information on employment opportunities that correspond to a given university major. This site also leads to a list of Web sites for trades and professional associations.

Campus Program: University, College, and Employment Resources
This site will give information as to where in Canada the program that interests you is offered.

Alberta Learning Information Service
Produced by the Alberta Learning Information Service, this directory contains about 514 occupational profiles.

Human Resources Development Canada

Job Futures by Human Resources Development Canada provides information on current labour market conditions and the economic forecasts for 211 occupational groups.

Browse Occupations by National Occupation Codes on Service Canada's website.

JobProfiles.org
Real people discuss what they do everyday and what they like and don't like about their jobs.

Ontario Ministry of Education: Occupational Descriptions
This site provides information sources on specific careers such as accounting, biology, engineering and health.

Choosing A Career

NextSteps.org
This site leads you through the major steps of making a career decision. Has a self-assessment tool.

Career Cruising
The "Career Cruising" is based on "Holland’s Code," one of the most widely used methods to help people make good career decisions.

Career Options
Puzzling over career options? This site can help you put the pieces together and make sense of the big picture.

What Kind of Learner Am I?

Visual Learners

Visualize successfully performing a task. Take notes. Write everything out. Keep a journal of what they have heard. Use charts, maps, notes and flashcards. Have pictures of words, ideas, concepts in their head. Ask the teacher to write on the board.

Auditory Learners

Tape lectures. Read notes or textbooks out loud. Summarize what they heard and then tape themselves. Explain what you have heard to others. Listen to music while they study to match words, ideas and concepts to musical tunes.

Tactile Learners

Take notes. Underline or highlight important facts. Make a scrapbook of what you have learned. Act out a poem, story or historical event. Walk through a series of instructions. Build a model or draw a picture of what you are learning. Create a physical exercise or motions to match words, ideas and concepts.

Print out and take the Learning Assessment Quiz to find out what type of learner you are.

Take the questionnaire

Where to Find Educational Programs

Career-College.com
This site provides a list, by province, of the career colleges throughout the country.

SchoolFinder.com
This site is for Canadian colleges, universities, graduate schools and online training.

CanLearn Interactive
Tools and information to help match personal and career goals to learning opportunities.

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
This site allows you to search for any Canadian university program in just about any field.

Campus Canada
This site offers a growing selection of online degrees and diplomas delivered by Canadian universities and colleges.

Career Colleges
This site offers a thorough search feature of career colleges

Funding Education

CanLearn Interactive
This site provides a questionnaire where you can create your profile and then the search engine will identify the bursaries that fit your profile.

ScholarshipsCanada.com
Scholarship Canada allows you to search hundreds of grants, bursaries, and scholarships.

SaskNetwork

Royal Bank Scholarships