Summary of Key Themes

C. Where to Find More

Starting a Search - Some Sources of General Information

Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers. http://www.cacee.com.

Students and recent grads section has Canadian Directory of Internships, career and employer research, college and university career centres, upcoming career fairs, where the jobs are, college and university home pages, Career Options magazine, ethical recruitment guidelines and Campus Worklink Internet Employment Service.

Canadian Key Business Directory. Dunn & Bradstreet Canada. Annual.

• Covers 20,000 leading public and private companies in all lines of business.
• Records are sorted by business name, names within cities, within provinces and SIC code.
• Information includes company name and address, telephone and D-U-N-S number, and executive names and titles.

Community Futures

Programs in rural and remote communities facing serious labour market difficulties. They include a Community Futures committee which creates and implements plans for local employment development, a Business Development Centre for technical advice and assistance and the Community Initiatives Fund which contributes to local initiatives critical to the community development plan. Find it on the HRDC Web site http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/home.shtml.

Developing a Career Information Centre. 1999. Canadian Career Information Association, 720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2T9. Fax: (416) 929-5256, E-mail: ccia@cacee.com. http://www.ccia-acadop.ca/.

Guide and source of information for those building a career centre. Revised edition includes valuable information on computerizing and marketing your centre.

Directory of Associations in Canada. Micromedia Limited. Annual. Lists names of all associations in Canada with contact names, addresses and telephone numbers.

Fraser's Canadian Trade Directory. Fraser Publication Company, Montreal. Annual. Lists names of manufacturers, products, addresses and telephone numbers.

Organizations (and associations) of Canada. Job Futures http://jobfutures.ca/en/home.shtml. Lists organizations by occupational codes.

Publications, Posters and Audiovisual Material Catalogue from the Information Development & Marketing Branch, Alberta Advanced Education and Career Development. Order from Learning Resources Distribution Centre, Alberta Education, 12360-142 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5L 4X9. Tel: (403) 427-2767, Fax: (403) 422-9750.

Catalogue of publications on career development, including The Career Planner, Entrepreneur: A Big Word for a Small Business, Skills are Your Passport and Women in the Workforce.

The Standard Periodical Directory. Oxbridge Communications, New York. Annual. Lists publication name, publisher's name, address, telephone number and cost of trade journals.

Type "What can I do with a degree in...?" into http://www.google.com and you will be referred to sites for career options in everything from biology to exercise, physiology to library sciences and philosophy to symbolic systems.