Resources

Career Development in Manitoba Schools - A Survey of Current Awareness and Practices ( 179 KB)
A six page survey was sent to 885 Manitoba schools March 2007 to survey the school system to determine the current level of career practices. 335 schools completed the questionnaires for a response rate of 40%.

The first part, "Career Development and Practices, Programming and Resources" focused on schools' career development activities and their awareness of the various post-secondary education, training and financing options in Manitoba.

The second part of the survey "Staff and Resources" focused on the questions related to resources that schools have been allocating to career development, the nature and extent of parental involvement as well as schools' awareness of available resources.

VECTOR
VECTOR (Video Exploration of Careers, Transitions, Opportunities, and Realities) provides more than 150 six-minute video vignettes profiling some of Canada¹s most-needed careers and occupations. The fast-paced, colourful vignettes feature real people in their workplaces talking about the challenges and rewards of their jobs. They discuss their interests and education and describe both the routine and excitement of their days.

A Career Development Resource for Parents
This guide has been developed to help parents support teens as they explore their options and make decisions. The goal is to provide parents with some practical ideas and resources to use with their children.

Focus on the Future: Career Planning Begins at Home
This handbook has been written for parents of children in Middle Years schools. Research indicates that parents are the number one influence on their children's success in their educational pursuits and their choice of occupation. Helping children build on their skills, strengths, and confidence will assist them in planning for the future. This handbook has been written to encourage parents and children to begin thinking about and discussing career exploration.

Focus on the Future: Your Grad Planner
This document will help students gain an understanding of the requirements for high school graduation, career planning and paying for their future education.

Focus on the Future: A Parent and Student Guide to Senior Years Graduation Requirements
This parent and student guide contains information about the graduation requirements for Manitoba Senior Years students, and provides parents and students with a planning tool that can be used throughout the Senior Years.

A Self-Managed Career Portfolio Guide
The portfolio offers a framework for individuals to guide and capture all aspects of their career development, including self-assessment, goal-setting, skill identification, career and educational transition, getting and keeping work, and lifelong personal development. As an ongoing developmental process, the career portfolio provides documentation of the past and offers a guide to the future.

The Role of Guidance in Post-Secondary Planning: Findings for Manitoba
This report presents the Manitoba portion of a research project in career guidance in the secondary school system undertaken by the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation in partnership with four provinces — Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador. It explores the availability to high school students and their parents of information and programming about careers, education and training options after high school and about financing these various options.

The Real Game Series
According to the school-to-work literature a good school intervention would include simulated occupational experiences which would excite students by the opportunities presented and motivate them to explore their occupational possibilities with more enthusiasm; teach them about the consequences of making decisions in life; allow them to test the adequacy of various decision making models; allow students to sample various occupations, incorporate role-playing; facilitate the learning of skills, interests, beliefs, values, work habits, and personal qualities that enable each participant to create a satisfying life in a constantly changing work environment; be developmentally appropriate and allow students to develop employability skills.

The Real Game series incorporates all aspects taken from career transition literature of what a good intervention program should be (as mentioned above).

The The Real Game series includes:

• The Play Real Game, Ages 6 - 8, Grades 3 / 4
• The Make it Real Game, Ages 8 - 10, Grades 5 / 6
• The Real Game, Ages 11 - 13, Grades 7 / 8
• The Be Real Game, Ages 14 - 15, Grades 9 / 10
• The Get Real Game, Ages 16 - 18, Grades 11 / 12

All programs in The Real Game series are fully Blueprint-compliant. The context and activities have been conceived to maximize students' opportunities to master the full range of Blueprint essential life/work building skills. Each program in the series offers rich opportunities for team-teaching, involvement of senior student mentors, participation by community members and organizations, and parental involvement.

 

Web Resources

Links that support career development and transition education in a wide variety of settings including Early, Middle, and Senior Years schools.

• Graduation Requirements, and Post-secondary Admission Requirements and Articulation
• Take Our Kids to Work Day!
  Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth is a proud sponsor of Take Our Kids to Work Day! On November of each year every Grade 9 student in Canada is invited to spend a day at work with a parent, relative, adult friend, or volunteer host. Visit the website for more information or contact the Provincial Coordinator, Tom Prins.
• Career Cruising
  Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages to help them find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training. For access to this resource, contact Tom Prins.
• VECTOR
  (Video Exploration of Careers, Transitions, Opportunities, and Realities)
  VECTOR is a video vignette library that profiles individual Canadians in the workplace. It shows them at work, describing the nature of their job and conditions of their workplace. VECTOR project partners, in collaboration with 16 sector councils, have produced 120 occupations to date identifying careers/occupations that would be of interest to youth and that currently face, or will soon face, labour market shortages.

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