The Work
Futures - British Columbia Occupational Outlooks web site helps British
Columbians with their career decisions, and provides employment facts
and information about trends in today’s labour market. It also predicts
how labour market conditions and employment prospects will change over
the next decade.
Start
Now! Work Futures for Entry Level Jobs includes occupational descriptions
and employment prospects for occupations that permit entry into the labour
market with little or no post-secondary education and little or no previous
work experience.
Hands
On! Work Futures for Trades & Technical Occupations profiles over
100 trade and technical occupations, and provides industry overviews as
well as personal profiles of individuals in these fields.
A
Guide to the BC Economy and Labour Market provides basic information
on the industrial building blocks of BC's economy, together with characteristics
of employment and projected job growth. It details provincial industries,
with emphasis on human resource issues. Economic terms are explained (with
examples), so that a background in economics is not necessary. The book
also provides an historical perspective on the province's economy, providing
a context for BC's industries in the mid-1990s and where they are expected
to be going in the next century.
The federal government's
web site, Job Futures,
has information on occupations listed alphabetically, by National Occupational
Code (NOC) and by skill. Each listing gives information about occupation,
including education required, earnings and future prospects. It provides
graphs of current locations, unemployment, female participation rates
and possibilities for youth. Each listing is linked to related occupations.
