{"id":396,"date":"2014-03-08T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T02:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:18:43","slug":"job-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Job Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended a workshop called &#8220;Skilled Immigrants,&#8221; which provided information on immigration and job searching in Canada. Many of the job search resources covered were not only applicable to immigrants, but also to anyone searching for a new career, or anyone interested in general career development. Below is a list of some of the resources that I found most interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sokanu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sokanu<\/a>&#8211; take their quiz and find out what career matches your personality and interests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerealism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Careerealism<\/a>&#8211; contains many useful articles on career development, work-life balance, job searching, and much more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eluta.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eluta<\/a>&#8211; a job search engine of Canada&#8217;s top 100 employers. One feature that I found to be particularly helpful was the Career Directory for New Grads- choose your degree, field of study, and search for employers that recruit people with that specific educational background!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quintcareers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quintessential Careers<\/a>&#8211; loads of job search tools and career resources.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glassdoor.ca\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GlassDoor<\/a>&#8211; a job search engine; an inside look at companies, and most useful- practice interview questions actually used at companies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alison<\/a>&#8211; engage in life-long learning with these free, certified online courses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcflearnfree.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GCF Learn Free<\/a>&#8211; free online learning, including job development courses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratemyemployer.ca\/Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rate My Employer<\/a>&#8211; research and screen potential employers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently attended a workshop called &#8220;Skilled Immigrants,&#8221; which provided information on immigration and job searching in Canada. Many of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,31,30],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careers","tag-immigrants","tag-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}