Resources and services at the Sheridan Career Centre
The Sheridan Career Centre is your starting point for your career search. The Career Centre can assist in exploring career options and planing further education.
Career Centre resources:
- Quick tips for getting your career planning started
- Career Cruising is an interactive career planning resource with descriptions of what people do in 600+ different Canadian occupations, plus other career and educational planning tools. Log into this resource using your current or past Sheridan student or staff ID
- Career Exploration Micro Course has been created by Sheridan Councillors to walk you through the career exploration and educational planning process
- Career Counsellors are available to current students and Sheridan graduates to help explore career options, set career goals, research labour market information, and plan further education
Other cool Career Centre tools:
- Idea Generator an online Career Centre tool that helps you understand your career interests, and the Sheridan programs and courses that align with them
- Program Career Outcome links occupational information (i.e., what you do in the career) and labour market statistics (i.e., pay, outlook, graduate employment rate) for any Sheridan program
The Sheridan Library has career planning resources too
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Gale OneFile: Vocations and CareersContains over 400 sources including general career guides, and industry journals and magazines. Subjects range from job descriptions to enrolling in post-secondary education to furthering careers with continuing education. Published by Cengage Learning
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Vocational & Career CollectionThis database title is very similar to the one just above, but it contains different information. Published by Ebsco, it covers a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs and provides full-text coverage for trade and industry periodicals. Sample titles: •Modern Machine Shop •Pediatric Nursing •Wireless Week •Drug Store News •Restaurant Business •Advertising Age •Reeves Journal (for plumbing solar thermal and radiant hydronic heating contractors)
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Scott's Canadian Business DirectoryUse Scott's Canadian Business Directory to find businesses that match your geographic or industry job-search criteria. Ideal for tapping the "hidden job market" in small and medium-sized Canadian businesses.
Researching salaries
Robert Half Canada - Robert Half is an international recruitment firm with operations in Canada. They publish free annual Salary Survey reports for many countries, including Canada. Download a salary report for your job sector (i.e., “technology salary guide”) or a country salary guide covering a range of positions in that country. For 2020, Robert Half published free market salary guides for Canada in 5 professional areas:
Click to download your 2020 salary survey
- Finance & Accounting Salary Guide
- Technology Salary Guide
- Administrative Salary Guide
- Creative & Marketing Salary Guide
- Legal Salary Guide
You may also want to check out these additional Canadian salary resources:
PayScale - Another great free tool that supports searching across a range of countries by position.You may also want to check out these salary resources:
Salary Calculator
Salary Comparison by Canadian City
Perks and Benefits
- Canada Salary Overview sample
- Paralegal position overview sample
Salary.com - A great source when searching for US state or city level salaries. Also contains data for Canada through the Canadian Salary Wizard. The American reports are more detailed than the Canadian reports, providing some free data as well as personalized salary reports that can be purchased for US$30-$80. Some of this data may be useful to Canadian job seekers. See this example of an Accounting Clerk position.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - Created by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to benchmark salaries in over 500 careers. Database is searchable and provides landing pages for broad career areas, such as the Computer and Information Technology Careers.
Business Source Complete - This Sheridan Library database includes U.S. salary reports for selected professions.
Search tip:
- Search as a title “Report on salary surveys"
- Add keywords to your search i.e., “paralegals”
- Under Limit results, check “Full Text”
SNI Companies - A recruiting company similar to Robert Half (see Canada tab). SNI operate under the name Staffing Now and cover a variety of career areas (accounting, legal, technology, administration). SNI has a free salary guide that includes salary data for US cities.
Glassdoor – This website is focused on company reputations and branding. It does contain salary data and allows access to ~5 job descriptions/salaries before moving to a “give to get model” whereby you must input data to continue access. Salaries are self-reported and should be used as directional data.
InformationWeek - This technology magazine publishes an annual IT Salary Survey based on US respondents in April. Report is available free of charge from their website with registration.
Robert Half Salary Surveys - Annual salary guides in USD for positions in five areas, Finance & Accounting, Technology, Legal, Office & Administration and Creative & Marketing
AreaVibes - has a Salary Calculator that tool allows you to calculate the impact of cost of living on take home pay in different American cities, which is useful when looking for a job in a new city.
Books on career exploration
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What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Resumes by ISBN: 9781607746577Publication Date: 2014-05-06 -
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Getting from College to Career by Call Number: LB2343 .P57 2012ISBN: 9780062069276Publication Date: 2012-01-31Available in print in the Sheridan Library -
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Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer by Call Number: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sheridanc-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1895301ISBN: 9781118771983Publication Date: 2015-04-27
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Career handbookCanada. Human Resources Development Canada.
HF5382.5.C2 C34123 2003 v.1-2
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The everything alternative careers book : leave the office behind and embark on a new adventure!Mannion, James
HF5384 .M355 2004
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Job smarts. Instructor's manual : 12 steps to job success for students with special needsWright, Dixie Lee
HF5382.7 .W752 2004
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Career directionsYena, Donna J.
HF5381 .Y46 2007
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Becoming an architect : a guide to careers in designWaldrep, Lee W.
NA1995 .W35 2006
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Becoming an interior designer : a guide to careers in designPiotrowski, Christine M., 1947-
NK2116 .P56 2009
Available in print in the Sheridan Library
Just for fun
Community resources
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Oakville Public Library Career and Employment ResourcesOPL's get-ready-to-work resources that support job hunting
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Oakville Public Library Program & EventsCommunity programs and events at OPL
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Brampton Public Library EventsCommunity programs and events at Brampton Public Library
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Mississauga Library Career ToursBookable tours of the Missisauga Library’s career resources.
Free career exploration tools
CAPS, Finance & HR Librarian
