Library and Academic Success: Career Research Guide: Labour Market Research

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National Occupational Classification (NOC)
The NOC is a system used by the Government of Canada to classify jobs (occupations). Jobs are grouped based on the type of work a person does and the types of job duties. Provides occupational descriptions. NOC codes are the codes used in the immigration process.
Government of Canada Career Handbook
Using NOCs or job titles, read about main characteristics, apptitudes, interests, education & training requriements, physical & enviornmental requirements, etc., that you'll need for occupations you are interested in pursuing.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.
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Career Cruising This link opens in a new window
An interactive career guidance and pathways planning tool. To maximize your experience, be sure to create your own login & password -- use the "My Account" button.
Conference Board of Canada This link opens in a new window
Applied research on Canadian Trade, Education, Health, Human Resource Management, Energy, Tourism Coverage, Transportation, and more. Site loads slowly.
Vocations and Careers This link opens in a new window
Finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career are all topics covered by this collection, providing current and applicable content for all vocational milestones. Offering content from nearly 400 journals and over 7,000,000 articles, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
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Statistics Canada This link opens in a new window
Links to Statistics Canada home page. Stats Canada is the national statistical agency. It profiles Canada's business, economy and society.

Stats Canada - Labour Statistics
Stats Canada brings together data, tools and reports to provide the latest information on labour statistics in Canada.
Canadian Industry Statistics (CIS)
Canadian Industry Statistics (CIS) analyses industry data on many economic indicators using the most recent data from Statistics Canada.
Government of Canada - Explore the Market
Learn more about an occupation you are interested in: wages, outlooks, education, skills needed and so much more
Province of Ontario - Ontario's Labour Market
Labour market information and statistics can help you plan your career. Learn more about work trends and the skills, education and training you need for jobs today, and in the future.
Toronto Industry Profiles
Annual industry profiles provide information on employment characteristics (age, gender, education, etc) for more than 200 industries in the Toronto GTA.