Careers / Jobs Resources Research Guide

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1. Careers / Job Resources Research Guide
   1. Employability Skills: Circulating Books
   2. Employability Skills: Videos/DVDs
   3. Web links for Employability Skills
   4. Job Hunting: Circulating Books
   5. Job Hunting: Videos/DVDs
   6. Web sites: Job Ads
   7. Web sites: Careers
   8. Web sites: Job hunting
   9. Job Futures
   10. Wage and Salary Surveys
   11. RRC Library Links
   12. Red River College Links
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Web links for Employability Skills

• Conference Board of Canada: Employability Skills 2000+ - This document discusses the critical skills you need in the workplace-whether you are self-employed or working for others. Employability Skills 2000+ include communication, problem solving, positive attitudes and behaviours, adaptability, working with others, and science, technology and mathematics skills.
• Conference Board of Canada: Innovation Skills Profile - The Innovation Skills Profile isolates the unique contribution that an individual's skills, attitudes, and behaviours make to an organization's innovation performance by focusing on creativity and continuous improvement skills, risk taking skills, relationship building skills, and implementation skills.
• Conference Board of Canada: Skills Credentialing Tool for Individuals. The Skills Credentialing Tool for Individuals is a self-assessment and portfolio-building tool for students, employees and job-seekers. This tool helps individuals self-assess their essential skills and employability attitudes and behaviours and create an evidence portfolio that they can share with an employment counsellor, instructor or workplace supervisor. Published by the Conference Board in Canada.
• Employability Skills (University of Kent Careers Advisory Service) - Web site includes tools for assessing one's own employability skills, making a skills inventory and passing employer aptitude tests.
• Essential Skills Resources (Kwantlen Polytechnic University). Provides links to resources in the following skill categories: Creative Thinking and Problem Solving Skills; Oral Communication Skills; Writing Skills; Interpersonal, Teamwork and Leadership Skills (including working in groups); Personal Management Skills (including Study Skills); Reading and Information Skills (including citing your references and using the Library well); Visual Literacy Skills; Mathematical Skillls; Intercultural Skills; Technological Skills (including using myKwantlen, moodle, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, etc.); Citizenship and Global Perspective.
• Essential Skills website. (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. This site provides free and easy-to-use tools to help learners, employers and practitioners take action on Literacy and Essential Skills. The site includes over 300 job profiles which list essential workplace skills for specific jobs; for example, Early Childhood Educators and Assistants.
• Skills Assessment. Articles on personal skills assessment from suite101.com.
• Soft Skills Development. Articles on a variety of "soft skills" from suite101.com.
• Transferrable Skills. Article by Libby Ackermann on "transferrable" or "soft" skills (i.e., communication, interpersonal, teamwork and personal management skills). From the Ontario Network for Internationally-trained Professionals web site.
• Vocational Information Center: Communication Skills. Provides links to Communication skills including resume writing, report writing, grammar, interviewing, speaking and presenting.
• Vocational Information Center: Skills for today's workforce. Provides links to workplace skills, personal skills, life skills, math skills and study skills.
• Workplace Education Manitoba is your complete source for Essential Skills consultation, assessment and co-funded workplace training partnerships. Workplace Education Manitoba receives funding from both the Province of Manitoba and the Government of Canada.
• WOW-Skills.com is the first comprehensive and fully interactive website in Canada to enable users to individually evaluate, develop and market their employability skills in today's world of work. The result of a pilot project agreement between WCG International and the Conference Board of Canada, the website is a natural extension of the Employability Skills Toolkit created by the Conference Board of Canada in the year 2000.