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Welcome to the Career Development Subject Guide. This guide was designed to provide you with some strategies that can help you find the career that is best suited to you. It contains career exploration resources, labour market information, job boards and Apps, as well as tips for using social media and networking. In order to make an informed career choice, it is important to think about the workplace of the present and the future. This page provides a snapshot of some of the changes that experts are predicting will result in new career options.

Now or Never: An Urgent Call for Action for Nova Scotians

The Report of the Nova Scotia Commission on Building Our New Economy

The Workforce of the Future

Best Careers for the Future: Jobs for 2025 and Way Beyond!
According to one estimate from the World Economic Forum, almost two-thirds of today's kindergarten students will eventually have occupations that don't currently exist. Read more.
OECD. The Future of Work.
The future of work is now. Globalisation, digitalisation and other mega-trends are bringing radical shifts to how we live and work.
Workforce of the Future
The pace of change is accelerating. Competition for the right talent is fierce. And ‘talent’ no longer means the same as ten years ago; many of the roles, skills and job titles of tomorrow are unknown to us today.

Soft Job Skills are Important

"Soft Skills" by Epic Top 10.com is licensed under CC BY 2.0

The Gig Economy

What is the gig economy? (2017, November 28). https://youtu.be/oQfTJy0sRVs

Employability Skills for Now & the Future

10 Workplace Skills That Will Help Our Learners Succeed Beyond School
The best modern workplace skills for students to have are the ones that foster trust, promote a leadership mindset, and create productive results.
Employability Skills: The Skills You Need to Get a Job
We all have a set of transferable skills or employability skills. These are skills that are not specific to one particular career path but are useful across all employment sectors.

The Gig Economy

The Future of Work: Part 1 The Gig Economy and the Future of the Job
This scan looks at the emerging ‘gig economy’ and the future of jobs.
The Gig Economy
The gig economy in Canada is growing at a phenomenal rate that shows no signs of slowing down.
The “Gig” Picture: One-in-three Canadians have done some kind of informal work in the past five years
As governments and policy makers measure Canadian growth by, among other things, employment rates, new data shows millions of adults in this country are earning their livings by doing “gig” – or informal – work.