High-Income Countries

On this page: Australia • Canada • France • New Zealand • Spain • United Kingdom • United States

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Australia

• Myfuture
  http://www.myfuture.edu.au/
  myfuture is designed for all Australians wishing to explore their skills and interests, identify possible career paths, develop their career plan and research options for further study and training. It is a one-stop-shop which brings together wide-ranging, yet easy-to-follow information on the labour market, education, training and jobs in Australia. One of myfuture's unique features is that users are able to create an individualized profile. Users can match their interests, values, skills, aspirations and abilities to possible occupations and can re-enter the site at any time to access and update their profiles as their skills develop or their interests change. While particularly useful for young people making decisions about subject choice, vocational pathways and employment, myfuture will also assist adults returning to the workforce or changing career direction.

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Canada

• Training and Careers
  http://www.jobsetc.ca, EN FR
  This is a comprehensive government web site on training/learning, working and careers. The Career Exploration section offers guidance on identifying and researching career options, and making career decisions. It provides information on career counselling, employment trends, employment prospects, salary ranges and skilled trades. The web site contains a job bank, a CV or resumé builder and interactive quizzes and tests on the individual’s abilities, skills and professional interests
• Job Futures / Emploi-Avenir
  http://www.jobfutures.ca, EN FR
  Job Futures is a comprehensive, national career tool designed to provide Canadians with information on current and future labour market conditions to help them make informed education, skills and career planning decisions. It gives information on 226 occupational groups and describes the work experiences of recent graduates from 155 programmes of study. In addition to this general labour market information, Job Futures provides links to a wide variety of labour market skills navigation or employability development information, including: career exploration tools, job search techniques, workers’ rights and benefits, trade union information, training and learning resources and resources for teachers and professionals.

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France

• Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi
  http://www.anpe.fr/index.jsp, FR
  The French Employment Service maintains a comprehensive career development service including self-service (CV, job search), consultation and information services.

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New Zealand

• Career Services Rapuara
  http://www.careers.govt.nz/, FR
  This very comprehensive government site contains information and services.
  Information includes:
  • KiwiCareers and associated electronically-based products,
  • Local up-to-date labour market information, and
  • Industry information dissemination— via electronic, web page and paper-based media.
  Services include:
  • Careers workshops for senior and junior Maori and Pacific secondary school students,
  • Parents as Career Educators workshops (PACE) for Year 7 and 8 secondary parents,
  • Teachers as Career Educators workshops (TACE) for Year 7 and 8 teachers; knowledge enhancement workshops, including a focus on Maori roles,
  • Work Capacity Assessment and vocational assessment procedures for workplace injury clients,
  • Induction training for new careers advisors,
  • Schools consultation visits, and
  • Community Outreach visits.
• Kiwi Careers
  http://www.kiwicareers.govt.nz
  KiwiCareers is an information resource on jobs, careers and training, with links to relevant national and international web sites. It provides various links to resources offering advice on identifying suitable career options, finding work and developing at work. This web site also offers hundreds of job outlines.
  Pathfinder, an online programme of Kiwi Careers, helps people to identify their career needs and generate a personal profile based on a questionnaire; to review career suggestions and make a career plan.

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Spain

• Red Araña Webempleo
  http://www.webempleo.org/Principal/Inicio.htm, ES
  This Spider Net Web Employment is an inclusive career development site maintained by non-profit making organizations which promote labour market integration of target groups with specific needs, such as young people, women, inmates, immigrants, or drug abusers. The site includes guides for searching for a job, telework, and creation of an own enterprise. It also has links to web sites that have an online employment exchange.

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United Kingdom

• Careers Scotland
  http://www.careers-scotland.org.uk/careersscotland/Web/Site/Home/home.asp
  This government web site has three main sections: career ideas, learning and work. Each section has a very comprehensive list of topics.

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United States

• CareerOneStop Electronic Services
  http://www.careeronestop.org
  CareerOneStop, formerly known as America’s Career Kit, is a suite of electronic tools including: America’s Job Bank, America’s Career InfoNet, and America’s Service Locator. The tools were developed and are maintained by the United States Department of Labor in partnership with state workforce agencies, local workforce service delivery providers and education and training institutions and private sector organizations.
  America’s Job Bank (AJB) is the largest and one of the busiest job banks on the Internet. America’s Career InfoNet (ACINet) helps people make better, more informed career decisions. ACINet is ideal for jobseekers, employers, human resource specialists and workforce development specialists to: learn more about typical wages and employment trends across occupations and industries; check education, knowledge, skills and abilities against requirements for most occupations; search for employer contact information nationwide; obtain cost of living data; call up state profiles with labor market conditions; and find more than 4,000 external links to the most extensive set of career resources available on the Internet. America’s Service Locator (ASL) is the newest part of America’s Career Kit. It helps individuals locate public service offices with information on finding a job, planning a career, locating training, dealing with job loss and recruiting employees.
• JobStar
  http://jobstar.org/index.cfm
  The web site of this federally-funded project has two sections:
  • Get Ready, which gives how-to information for jobseekers: CV/resumés resumes, career and salary information, hidden job market etc.
  • Get to Work, which includes online job banks, job fairs, career centres and libraries.