Career Exploration
*Note: To access the career exploration sites marked with an asterisk, you must have a password which you can retrieve at our office.
Personal Exploration
A Running Start - Your Career Development Guide
The uOttawa Career Development Centre has created this Guide as a quick, easy-to-navigate resource for University of Ottawa students. A Running Start covers both planning your career and carrying out your plan. This guide will offer you a number of proven strategies as well as vital information throughout the process.
What can I do with my degree?
Explore some of your employment options according to your field of study.
Exploring Careers and Potential Employers
Job Bank
Job Bank is the Government of Canada's leading source for jobs and labour market information. It offers users free occupational and career information such as job opportunities, educational requirements, main duties, wage rates and salaries, current employment trends, and outlooks.
Career Cruising*
Career Cruising is designed to help students plan their future. With exceptional assessment tools, detailed occupational profiles, and comprehensive postsecondary education information students move effortlessly through the career exploration and planning process.
The National Occupational Classification (NOC)
The NOC is a tool that was developed by the federal government to help people explore and understand the career possibilities found within Canada's labour market.
O*NET On-line
The O*NET program is the USA's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors.
Glassdoor
Glassdoor holds a growing database of millions of company reviews, CEO approval ratings, salary reports, interview reviews and questions, office photos and more. Unlike other jobs sites, all of this information is entirely shared by those who know a company best — the employees.
Canada's Top 100 Employers
This project profiles companies and organizations that lead the nation in offering exceptional working conditions and benefits. It also includes ranking for other cities such as:
- Ottawa's Top 100 Employers
- Montreal's Top 100 Employers
- Toronto's Top 100 Employers
- Top 100 Employers for Young People
- Target Companies for Business Grads
e-Talent Canada Portal
The e-Talent Canada Portal is a unique online interactive map that will provide Canadians access to dynamic labour market information. The portal provides ICT job trends and tools pertinent to all sectors.
Working Abroad
Global Talent Portal
The Telfer Career Centre has collaborated with EFMD Global Network to offer you your very own career portal, connecting you with global opportunities. You can activate and login to your personal portal to find internship, trainee positions, apprenticeships and graduate positions that are relevant to you from companies around the world.
MyWorldAbroad
Top website helping students go abroad, build international skills and find international work at home and abroad. Register for free access.
International Experience Canada
Make your work dream a reality! International Experience Canada gives you the information and resources you need as a Canadian to travel and work abroad for up to one year.
Global Vision - Junior Team Canada
Junior Team Canada brings the best and brightest young Canadians together, to give them hands on business experience and prepare them for success in the global economy.
