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Career Development
Supporting employees to manage their careers, and the organization to effectively utilize the skills and abilities of it's employees.
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How to access Career Development Services
The Career Planning process is something you can do on your own with the many resources available to you both in print or on the internet, or you can choose to meet with a Career Counsellor to assist you through this process.
Working With a Career Counsellor
As a Government of Yukon employee you may contact Evelyn Koh or Allison Beckman to assist you with career development planning and decisions.
Working on Your Own
A variety of web sites on the internet DO provide valuable and useful information to assist you with your own self-directed career planning, whether you choose to work with a Career Counselor or not. The following website links can help get you started.
Staff Development Branch Library
Conduct a search for career related resources
Career Storm
Discover tools that are designed to empower you to make good career decisions. This web site includes interactive self-assessment exercises that analyse your skills, interests, work style and values.
The Career Key
Measure your personality traits and discover which jobs that are the best fit for you. This is a free public service to help people make sound career decisions.
10 Steps Interactive Career Planning Guide
This inspirational and interactive online tool will help you understand the career planning process and identify things you can do to make relevant and informed career plans.
The Yukon Work Information Network (YuWIN)
This Career Development website has a wealth of information for Yukoner's about career planning, job search, professional development and educational opportunities, and job postings. This information is organized in categories and subcategories that will assist you to find exactly what you are looking for. You can also link from this site to other comparable sites across the country.
TypeFocus
Take a free condensed version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. You may take the full personality assessment for a fee.
Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS)
Take the JVIS as described above, online for a fee of $14.95US.
AdvisorTeam.com - Keirsey Temperament Sorter II
Take this test and receive a free temperament description with the option to buy a 10-page Character Report for your type.
Jobboom.com
Assess your career situation by taking this free online questionnaire to determine your effectively you know yourself and are able to manage your own career
Career Planning
Steps in Planning Your Career
Step I - Dream
Career Planning begins with your dreams, hopes, wishes and goals. To find the work you love you need to figure out what you love to do. Sometimes our dissatisfaction with our job is a result of the lack of passion we feel for the work we do.
Step II - Self Awareness
Discovering yourself is the next step to developing your career plan. What are your skills and interests, what's your personality style, what do you feel passionate about and what do you really like to do? What kind of lifestyle do you want? What are your values? The more you know about yourself, your wants, needs, and desires, the more equipped you will be to make good decisions.
Step III - Discover Work
One of the secrets of developing an effective Career Plan is finding a creative fit between what you want and the job opportunities that exist for you. Looking for opportunities that will satisfy your passion for work and also provide for the things you value can be challenging, but job dissatisfaction can also wear you out. You may find that making changes won't be as difficult as you anticipate and the payback could be enormous.
Step IV - Plan
Planning can help you meet your goals, achieve results, direct your energies and unleash your potential. The key to career planning is to remember that it is your plan: you can change it and you choose how to achieve the results. Effectively stating both your short and long term goals and the steps you will take to meet those goals is the first step to achieving them.
Various standardized assessment tools, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, The Strong Interest Inventory, The Workplace Personality Index, the General Aptitude Test Battery and others, may be utilized where appropriate, to assist people in this process. David also provides group and work-unit sessions to assist with workplace issues.
Career Assessments
One of the benefits of working directly with a Career Counsellor is the fact that you can gain access to many more assessment tools than are available "on-line". Although there is a multitude of career information available on the internet, it is often difficult to "guarantee" the validity or usefulness of much of this information. Many of the more relevant and useful assessments are in fact not even available on the internet.
Some of the assessment tools that the Career Counsellors at the Staff Development Branch can assist you with include the following:
- Strong Interest Inventory:
This comprehensive assessment compares your self-reported interests, to the self-reported interests of other people of your gender who are successfully employed in occupations that they enjoy. The information is broken down into general occupational themes, as well as 211 specific occupations. The assessment can't tell you what you should do (a common misperception for those who haven't worked with a Career Counsellor), but it can provide you with valuable information to assist you in planning your career options.
- Jackson Vocational Interest Survey:
The JVIS is a self-scorable assessment of vocational interests.
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:
This personality assessment measures your preferences on four scales. Based on your responses, we can identify some of the common factors that people who look at life in a similar way to what you do often want in a career for it to be satisfying.
- General Aptitude Test Battery:
The GATB is useful in identifying your abilities and aptitudes and can be directly correlated to the aptitude requirements associated with success in more than 20,000 occupations in Canada.
- Workplace Personality Index:
Canadian based information. Success at work involves much more than an individual's cognitive abilities. Ability requirements of an occupation represent only one type of attribute that influences the potential for success. Differences revolving around individuals' preferences and typical work behaviour also influence how successful they may be. Personality traits are related to job performance in a wide variety of occupations. The WPI provides this type of personality trait information.
- Multidimensional Aptitude Battery:
The MAB provides a convenient objectively-scorable measure of general aptitude.
- Wide Range Achievement Test:
A quick and convenient assessment of reading (word recognition), spelling and arithmetic skills.
- Nelson-Denny Reading Test:
Provides a trustworthy assessment of ability in three areas: vocabulary, reading comprehension and reading rate. These important skills are related and interdependent.
Colleges
Yukon College - http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/
Athabasca University - http://www.athabascau.ca/
Justice Institute of B.C. - http://www.jibc.bc.ca/
Royal Roads - http://www.royalroads.ca/
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