Careers & Job Hunting

Online Databases - Resources Requiring Login (Library card and password)

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Subject Guides - Open Resources (no login required)

In the Library

Career Planning

Canadian Careers - Information on employment and job postings arranged in directory fashion by job categories. Extensive online career resources: information on career fairs, national career news and trends.

Employment Victoria - Local work resources including career development and related programs and services.

Working in Canada - Provides job seekers, workers and those who are new to the Canadian labour market with the information required to make informed decisions about where to live and work. WorkinginCanada.gc.ca is the Government of Canada's leading source for labour market information.

National Occupational Classification (Canada) - The National Occupational Classification (NOC) organizes over 30,000 job titles into 520 occupational group descriptions.

What's Key - A useful source of links to the BC economy, labour trends in the provinces, as well as self-assessment tools.

Work Futures (BC) - Prospects for specific types of work in the future.

Employment Services, Career Planning & Training

Spectrum Job Search Centre 1405 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2G2. Phone: 250-381-9074 Email:centre@spectrumjobsearch.com

Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society 305-535 Yates Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2Z6. Phone: 250-361-9433 Email: info@vircs.bc.ca

Transition Youth Employment Services 203-780 Tolmie Avenue, Victoria, BC V8X 3W4. Phone: 250-381-7582 Email: none given.

John Howard Society 2675 Bridge Street, Victoria, BC V8T 4Y4. Phone: 250-386-3428 Email:jhs@johnhoward.victoria.bc.ca

Le Centre d'accueil & de services à l'emploi Société francophone de Victoria 200-535 Yates Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2Z6. Phone: 250-388-7350 Tollfree: 1-888-388-7350Email: case@francocentre.com

Victoria Disability Resource Centre 817A Fort Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1H6. Phone and TTY: 250-595-0044 Email:employment@drcvictoria.com

Canadian National Institute for the Blind 2340 Richmond Road, Victoria, BC V8R 4R9. Phone: 250-595-1100 Email: none given

Career Assistance and Resources for Employment (CARE) 120-4243 Glanford Avenue, Victoria, BC V8Z 4B9. Phone: 250-658-4222. Email:caressgsupport@careonline.ca

University of Victoria Career Services Room 110, Campus Services Bldg, University of VictoriaVictoria, BC V8W 3P1. Phone: 250-721-8421 Email: careers@uvic.ca

Worklink Employment Society 2234 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC V9B 1X1. Phone: 250-478-9525 Email:mailbox@worklink.bc.ca

Job Postings

Monster.ca - Canadian database of over 400,000 jobs and careers, company profiles and job searches by company.

Workopolis - Possibly Canada's biggest job site. Searchable by location, job category and industry grouping.

Spectrum Job Search Centre - Includes Resource Centre for job seekers in Greater Victoria, Youth internship program, Renew/Restart programs for people over 55. Links to career and labour market sites.

Job Bank - Canada - Electronic listing of jobs, work or business opportunities phoned in to Human Resource Centres of Canada by employers around the country.

Working.com - Canadian jobs listed in the career section of some Canadian newspapers, including the Times-Colonist.

Hcareers.ca - Hospitality jobs in Canada.

BC Government Job Postings - Sort opportunities by region, or ministry.

Federal Government Job Postings

Careerbuilder.ca - Job postings from a variety of Canadian sources.

BCjobs.ca - Online career site with special emphasis on BC.

BCClasssified.com - Local job opportunities advertised in: Victoria News, Oak Bay News, Saanich News, Gulf Island Driftwood, and other Black Press newspapers on South Vancouver Island.