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Navigating Your Career

Know Yourself

Reflecting on your strengths, interests, skills and experience is a great first step in your personal career development. Revisiting these assessments every few years can also give insight into how you are growing as a professional.

  • Start with our free 
  •  - Originally designed for Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ graduate students, this tool is a fabulous resource for Career Development.  The four stages;  Know Yourself, Explore Options, Get Focused and Take Action provide tips and information that can help any individual navigate their career path.
  •  - discover a complete profile of your strengths
  •  â€“ Gain insight about your personality at work. We recommend the Personality, Conflict Styles, or Peer Feedback assessments.
  •  â€“ a free tool to help you dive deeper into your personality
  •  â€“ a business career self-assessment to uncover your potential interests, motivators and skills. Note: Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ employees are entitled to a discount. Enter: ucalgary-ALUMNI in the Discount Code field then click APPLY DISCOUNT.
  • ? Discover your strengths, explore your career options, and chart a path through the world of work with eParachute.

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Build Your Skills

Building the knowledge, skills, and experiences you need to make the next move in your career starts with making a plan.

  • Create your own 
  •  â€“ How to write professional development goals that work (Connect to Perform Learning Series)
  •  â€“ Discover an approach or employees and their managers to talk about career development (Connect to Perform Learning Series)
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  • Learning and Development â€“ Explore the programs offered at the university to help you build your skills.
  • Tuition Support â€“ Through the university’s tuition support benefit, employees can pursue academic and continuing education courses

Finding Your Next Opportunity

Learn about current opportunities at Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ and get ready to nail your next interview.

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You want work that makes you feel happy, challenged — and appreciated. These talks might help you find that elusive combination, as you define your working life on your own terms.

Simply put, a pivot is a shift in direction but a pivot cannot be achieved successfully unless you have a strong foundation. Consider that foundation to be a blend of your values, accumulated experiences and achievements, providing balance and strength as you move into a new area. When you pivot in your career, you are not throwing away what you have accumulated in skills and experiences – they are the foundations that help you shift in a new direction.

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Networking

Networking plays an important role in your career development. Good news: it’s not all about mixing and mingling at trade shows. 

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Support and Counselling

  • Are you a Ô°ÇøÒùÂÒ Alumni? Visit the  to discover what career support is available for you!
  • Employee and Family Assistance Plan â€“ Did you know that our Employee and Family Assistance Provider offers career counselling?