Other Resources

Career Awareness Resources

If you are trying to help your students consider different career options, then this career awareness website will provide you with clear reliable and up to date career planning information. It also offers links to to other career related sites and well as giving a list of FREE career resources that are available at HRDC.

http://www.hrdc.gc.ca/career/

The Real Game

The real game is a career awareness, interactive, experiential game that grades 3 through to Adult Education can play. In simulation, participants in the earlier grades take on adult work roles earn and spend money, choose a home and create a town. In adult education the use of decision and adaptability is the key to the program. There is a cost involved in this game. for more details click

http://www.realgame.com/canada.cfm

Online student advising services

Here is a list of student advising services. These services vary in price but are well worth looking into so that students, guidance counselors and teachers have access to both career assessment and academic matching tools.

Top Three Online Advising Services Available

Career Cruising

http://careercruising.com/home/default.asp : Career cruising is a comprehensive and interactive career guidance resource that provides the information you need to make the right career choice. It includes in-depth profiles of careers as well as detailed information on vocational education, cegep and university and it offers multimedia interviews with real people in every career.

Student Counsellor

http://careercruising.com/home/default.asp : This site has both career assessment and academic matching tools. It includes a career cafe for chat rooms, educational resources and links available to other career related sites.

Bridges

http://www.bridges.com : This site offer online products in the form of CD-ROM to help people achieve education and career success. However, the CD-ROM products need to be up-dated and installed every year, whereas the other products are updated regularly online.