| Career & Job Search Supports for Youth |
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| Career & Job Search Supports for Youth Guide |
| This guide is intended to increase access to employment, career resources, and programs to improve skills and work experience. We have attempted to gather as much information in this handbook as we could find from a variety of stakeholders who serve or work with youth. This includes youth, parents,
teachers, community groups, and employers. As an "access" tool, it is designed to allow youth to make initial contact to services and supports. |
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| LABOUR MARKET INFORMATION |
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| http://www.labourmarketinformation.ca/ |
| On this site youth can search job descriptions, employment prospects, wages and salaries for selected careers and compare occupations. The site provides access to information about the labour market all across Canada but also provides information on local regions. |
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Making Career Sense of Labour Market Information |
| http://makingcareersense.org |
| Making Career Sense of Labour Market Information introduces career practitioners to key
socio-economic and labour market concepts, trends and issues. It also provides practical
examples of researching labour market information and using it in the career development process. |
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SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBERS |
| Social Insurance Application Forms - HRSDC |
| This site provides the SIN application as well as information about the documentation required for an application. |
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Public Service Commission Recruitment |
| http://www.jobs.gc.ca |
| Information about the Federal Student Work Experience Program as well as job opportunities in the Federal public service |
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Career Cruising |
| http://www.careercruising.com |
| This is an interactive career resource that provides terrific assessment tools, occupational profiles, information and statistics. |
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ACSBE |
| http://acsbe.acadiau.ca/ |
| The Acadia Centre for Small Business and Entrepreneurship has three fully-staffed offices
and several sub-offices across Nova Scotia and provides a wide range of services for
individual, professional and business development. |
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Discover IT |
| http://www.discoverit.org |
| This site provides information on careers in Information Technology including some LMI |
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Essential Skills |
| http://www.hrdc.gc.ca/essentialskills |
| You can use this site to search close to 200 occupational profiles which can help you learn more about the skills you need for the job you want, highlighting the Essential Skills. |
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Career Options Website |
| http://www.careeroptions.ednet.ns.ca/ |
| Nova Scotia run website with statistics on labour market trends, educational requirements and average wages in Nova Scotia. |
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The Job Bank |
| www.jobbank.gc.ca |
| This is the government of Canada's Job Bank, any and all jobs which are called into any HRCC or HRCC-S is posted here for the public to view.
The second link takes you to the Job Bank student section; this is also accessible from the main Job Bank site. |
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GENERAL YOUTH SITES |
| http://www.youth.gc.ca |
| Information about programs and services available to youth at the community level and beyond.Check out in particular the pages on Money, Work Experience and Health. |
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING |
| http://www.canlearn.ca |
| This site provides tools to help students save, plan and pay for post-secondary education. It also provides tools targeted directly towards parents and information for people, like us, providing advice and guidance to students. |
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Schoolfinder |
| http://www.schoolfinder.com |
| This site provides information on more that 1700 post-secondary institutions. It is easy to search by school or by program and also provides access to information about scholarships, career planning and financial advice. |
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Apprenticeship, Training and Skill Development
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| http://www.apprenticeship.ednet.ns.ca/ |
| Provides information about apprenticeship and training options in Nova Scotia |
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Job Futures Web Site |
| www.JobFutures.ca |
| This website has a lot of national statistics centered on educational paths and where they can lead, by taking surveys of recent graduates in each field they look at where those graduates are working and how they are doing. |
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Food Handlers Course Contact Info |
| http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/paal/agric/paal365.asp |
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First Aid, WHMIS info and other Training courses |
| http://www.sja.ca/ |
| This website has a link to an online calendar citing all dates that courses are offered all across the province. Easy to navigate and find information such as when and where courses are being held. |
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YOUTH FACING BARRIERS AND YOUTH AT RISK |
National Educational Association of Disabled Students
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| http://www.neads.ca |
| This site provides information on post-secondary education that is specifically tailored to students with disabilities. For example, there is information on financial assistance programs and a networking tool to communicate with other students with disabilities. |
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Benefits Finder
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| Persons with Disabilities Online |
| Information for persons with disabilities. |
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Nova Scotia Department of Community Services |
| http://www.gov.ns.ca/coms/index.html |
| With locations in communities across Nova Scotia, the DCS can be a valuable resource for us. Their website provides general information about what services they provide and to whom; however, you may want to contact them if there is an office in your area to explore opportunities for partnerships. |
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Skills Link |
| http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/epb/yi/yep/newprog/skillslink.shtml |
| This is a program designed for youth facing barriers to employment such as single parents, aboriginal youth, young persons with disabilities, recent immigrants, youth living in rural and remote areas and high school dropouts. It is intended to support youth in developing basic and advanced employment skills. |
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Teen Health Website |
| http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Health/TeenHealth/index.htm |
| This site provides contact information for organizations in Nova Scotia, predominantly in the Metro area, help lines and support programs. It includes help-lines for crisis intervention, drug dependence centers, and homes for youth at risk.
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Employment Rights |
http://www.gov.ns.ca/enla/employmentrights/ |
| Resources for employment rights in Nova Scotia. |
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MONEY AND BUDGETING |
| http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/individuals/segments/students/menu-e.html |
| This website has a wealth of information concerning the process of filing income taxes as a student. It has links to the necessary forms and pages dedicated to walking you through the process. |
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The Frugal Shopper |
| http://www.thefrugalshopper.com/articles/student.shtml |
| An excellent link with many great tips on how to keep track of spending and where to look for potential savings, students and young people of all ages (and even older people) will most likely learn many tips from this.
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Better Budgeting |
| http://www.betterbudgeting.com/articles/parenting/budgetingforstudents.htm |
| A similar website pointing out where to look for money savings, this one though is more pointed towards high school students with pointers for how parents can help their children learn how to manage their money by giving them free reign, while still giving pointers. |
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BMO Brain Money |
| http://www.bmo.com/popup/BrainMoney/calc.html |
| A great calculator which requires one to have estimated (or real) numbers to figure out costs of living and what kind of money a student will need to get through a regular school year. |
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Financial Planning Spreadsheet |
| http://financialplan.about.com/od/moneyandcollegestudents/l/blcollbudget.htm |
| A link to a printable spreadsheet which can be used to track a variety of budgeted income and expenses and actual income and expenses on a monthly, semester or yearly basis.
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