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Getting Started on your Job Search

1. Who Are You?
What Are Your Interests?What Are Your Values?What Are Your Skills / Abilities?
Indoors or outdoors?
Hobbies?
What do you like to read?
Working with people or alone?
Favourite courses?
What is important to you?
Teamwork?
Trust?
Respect?
Accountability?
Flexibility?
Strengths? Weaknesses, skills that you have? Skills that you want to develop?
Communication
Analytical
Numeracy
Relationship building
Organizational
Research
Analyisis
2. Research Careers
Online ResearchResearch Through ExperienceNetworking
Get an idea of what companies are out there. What are they looking for?
Review job descriptions for jobs or organizations of interest.
Try different jobs to learn what you like. See whether the culture of an organization matches what you know about yourself.Talk to professionals doing the type of work you are interested in.
Conduct information interviews to gain a wealth of information.