Guides: Career Information: Career planning

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 Councillors 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
Optimal Resume a career management platform with a variety of tools for Sheridan students and alumni including the Resume Builder, Letter Builder, Interview Preparation, and Website Builder. Create interactive career materials based on your career goals.

The Sheridan Library has career planning resources too

Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers
Contains 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
Vocational & Career Collection
This 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)
Scott's Canadian Business Directory
Use 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.

Books on career exploration

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Resumes by Richard N. Bolles
ISBN: 9781607746577
Publication Date: 2014-05-06
Careering by Tamara S. Raymond
ISBN: 9781683504023
Publication Date: 2017-11-14
Getting from College to Career Available in print in the Sheridan Library by Lindsey Pollak
Call Number: LB2343 .P57 2012
ISBN: 9780062069276
Publication Date: 2012-01-31

Available in print in the Sheridan Library
Love Your Job AWARDS: Independent Publisher Book Award 2015 (Silver) and National Mature Media Award 2015 (Bronze) Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun -- again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement when you could reinvigorate your workday, transforming the daily doldrums into a daily dose of enjoyable activity? Kerry Hannon, The New York Times columnist and AARP's Jobs Expert, focuses on the little things that can make a big difference in how we feel about work. Love Your Job is all about the routines, habits, and thought patterns that, over the years, may have turned a dream job into a drudge or, worse, a nightmare. Changing these habits and attitudes is simple, and this book shows you how to identify the little things that make work enjoyable and engaging. Using these simple techniques, you can adopt the attitude that will keep you happy and that might just lead to bigger and better things, no matter what stage of your career you are in. In this book, you will learn to: Develop new habits that bring more purpose into every single workday Rekindle your hope and motivation by celebrating small successes Recognize negative patterns that keep you from enjoying your job Craft an entrepreneurial attitude that will get you noticed and enrich your work life We all deserve to experience happiness and satisfaction every day, at every stage of our careers. Kerry Hannon explains that you don't have to make a huge career transition to love work again. But if you reinvent the way you see work, who knows where your new outlook will lead? Wake up to the countless possibilities that await you with Love Your Job. by Kerry Hannon
ISBN: 9781118898062
Publication Date: 2015-03-02
Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer Begin your graphic design career now, with the guidance of industry experts Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer is a single source guide to the myriad of options available to those pursuing a graphic design career. With an emphasis on portfolio requirements and job opportunities, this guide helps both students and individuals interested in entering the design field prepare for successful careers. Coverage includes design inspiration, design genres, and design education, with discussion of the specific career options available in print, interactive, and motion design. Interviews with leading designers like Michael Bierut, Stefan Sagmeister, and Mirko Ilic give readers an insider's perspective on career trajectory and a glimpse into everyday operations and inspirations at a variety of companies and firms. Design has become a multi-platform activity that involves aesthetic, creative, and technical expertise. Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer shows readers that the field once known as "graphic design" is now richer and more inviting than ever before. Learn how to think like a designer and approach projects systematically Discover the varied career options available within graphic design Gain insight from some of the leading designers in their fields Compile a portfolio optimized to your speciality of choice Graphic designers' work appears in magazines, advertisements, video games, movies, exhibits, computer programs, packaging, corporate materials, and more. Aspiring designers are sure to find their place in the industry, regardless of specific interests. Becoming a Graphic and Digital Designer provides a roadmap and compass for the journey, which begins today. by Steven Heller; Veronique Vienne
Call Number: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sheridanc-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1895301
ISBN: 9781118771983
Publication Date: 2015-04-27

Career handbook
Canada. Human Resources Development Canada.
HF5382.5.C2 C34123 2003 v.1-2
REFERENCE Available in print in the Sheridan Library
The everything alternative careers book : leave the office behind and embark on a new adventure!
Mannion, James
HF5384 .M355 2004
Available in print in the Sheridan Library
Job smarts. Instructor's manual : 12 steps to job success for students with special needs
Wright, Dixie Lee
HF5382.7 .W752 2004
Available in print in the Sheridan Library
Career directions
Yena, Donna J.
HF5381 .Y46 2007
Available in print in the Sheridan Library
Becoming an architect : a guide to careers in design
Waldrep, Lee W.
NA1995 .W35 2006
Available in print in the Sheridan Library
Becoming an interior designer : a guide to careers in design
Piotrowski, Christine M., 1947-
NK2116 .P56 2009
Available in print in the Sheridan Library

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

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.