This database features career assessment tools, detailed occupational profiles for over 500 careers, and comprehensive post secondary education information for Canada and the United States. In addition to 900 multimedia career interviews, users can create resumes and explore Canadian apprenticeship programs, job descriptions, working conditions, related jobs and sample career paths.

Use this database to answer questions like

• Can I access an interactive survey that will help me find a career that matches my interests?
• I'm interested in marine biology as a career. I'd like to know what I would do in a typical work day, and how I might progress in the job.
• Do you have any video interviews with people in the engineering professions? I'd like to know what they like and dislike about their jobs.

Documentation

• End user tips - Help Using Career Cruising

Vendor

• CAREER CRUISING

This database provides instant access to over 900 career profiles, 200 career videos and 330 post secondary programs. The easy to read magazine style format is divided into three major sections: work, learn and life. It offers signed articles and advice regarding the career exploration process, along with other features including student blogs, parent guides and a personal portfolio section that allows users to store information.

Use this database to answer questions like

• I love studying foreign languages in school. What are the types of jobs that would let me use that skill and interest?
• I'd like to be an urban planner. Are there any professional associations I could contact for more information, or websites that would tell me more about the profession?
• What kind of volunteer activities could I do in high school to better prepare me for a career in the sports industry?

Documentation

• End user tips - Getting Started with Choices Explorer
• Training - Using Choices Explorer

Vendor

• BRIDGES TRANSITIONS CO.

Free instructor-led interactive online courses for adults for professional development and personal enrichment

Documentation

• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials

Vendor

• CENGAGE

Job & Career Accelerator is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use job search application on the market. It integrates everything a patron needs to conduct a successful job search. Interactive wizards guide patrons through each step of the search process in a personalized manner, from recommending occupations to fetching up-to-the-minute job postings that are based on each user's career preferences. It is also fully integrated with the LearningExpress Library platform, allowing it to provide users with recommended skills improvement courses and occupational practice tests that are based on an individual’s work preferences and goals.

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• LEARNING EXPRESS

LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help customers, students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. The database offers immediate scoring, complete answer explanations and an individualized analysis of your results. LearningExpress Library also includes a searchable eBooks collection of study guides and test-preparation books to help people prepare for high-stakes tests—to advance in school, or pass licensing, certification, or competitive entry-level exams. This is a U.S. product and the tests are based on American testing standards. Canadian standards may be different.

Use this database to answer questions like

• How can I prepare online for a cosmetology, EMS or firefighter test?
• Does the Library provide any interactive tests to help me improve my writing skills, math skills or job search skills?
• Do you have an online test for any of the following – GED / GMAT / LSAT / MCAT / TOEFL?

Vendor

• LEARNING EXPRESS