Alberta Learning and Information Services

Adult Back to School Planner
Publication year: 2007
Everything an adult needs to know about going back to school—making a plan, anticipating the challenges and knowing where to go for support. This workbook deals with how to cope with change, organize your life, take care of the kids, and more. It also covers effective study habits so you can get your homework done and maintain some balance in your life.

Advanced Techniques for Work Search
Publication year: 2007
This workbook is designed to help self-directed adults with experience in the workforce or post-secondary education and training improve their work search strategies. Learn to sell your skills in today's competitive job market using portfolios, proposals, cover letters, resumés and curricula vitae. Features new information on networking, information interviewing, using the Internet in your work search and formatting and tailoring your resumé.

Alberta Career and Industry Outlook: Economic and other trends affecting the world of work to 2013
Publication year: 2010
This book looks at the global and provincial trends affecting Alberta's economy and society. These trends have an impact on occupations in the province and can affect business and career planning decisions. An Occupational Outlook section includes projections for more than 500 occupational groups.

Assessing You: The first step in career planning (formerly the Skills Plus Handbook)
Publication year: 2008
A self-assessment workbook to help you learn about the skills and assets you have that will help you adapt in today's world of work. Read about the skills employers are looking for and work on exercises that will help identify your own strengths. Includes suggestions for keeping track of your skills and ideas for repackaging your career assets to suit your current needs. By the end of the book you will have developed a summary of personal assets that will help you with future career choices.

Career Coaching Your Teens
Publication year: 2008
This guide offers practical ideas and resources to help parents support their teens as they explore career options and make informed career decisions. This Alberta version has been modified from the resource A Career Development Resource for Parents: Helping parents explore the role of coach and ally, developed by the Canada Career Information Partnership (CCIP).

Career Planner: Choosing an Occupation
Publication year: 2007
How do you decide what occupation is right for you? Take the five steps to a new career path. This plain language workbook is full of exercises and tips to work through the steps. It covers all of your questions:

• What am I doing right now?
• What do I need to know?
• What are my best choices?
• What do I need to do now?
• What actions will I take?

The resource section offers additional sources of help.

Change and Transitions
Publication year: 2002
Change is all around us, every day. Sometimes we want change in our life, and we make it happen. But sometimes change happens when we don't want it. This book explores change and the emotional transitions and stresses that go with it. Full of examples, exercises, practical tips and strategies, Change and Transitions encourages us to make the most of change.

Creating a New Future: The job-loss workbook
Are you suddenly without work? You're not alone. The question is how do you feel and what do you do about it? This workbook offers a whole range of practical information, exercises and options to ease the transition from being employed to being unemployed, to moving on and creating a new future. Topics include response to job loss, negotiating a severance package, financial planning, coping, building a support network, retraining and work options, and much more. Includes personal stories from others—how they handled their failures and successes and how they turned crises into opportunities.

Education and Training Planner
Publication year: 2007
Are you planning to take an education or training program? Know what your education and training options in Alberta are. This workbook will help you through all of the stepsùbeing a smart shopper and choosing the right program and the right school, applying for admission and thinking about money. The resource section offers additional sources of help.

Employee or Contractor? Know the difference
Publication year: 2008
Whether you're an employer or a worker, you may need to know the difference between "employee" and "contractor" status—and the various implications and requirements related to each. This resource provides basic information on the factors and definitions different orders of government apply to determine employment status.

English Express: Be Safe at Work
This four-page supplement provides easy-to-read information about how to stay healthy and safe on the job. It illustrates how to spot danger, use safety equipment, report injuries and share health and safety concerns with employers.

English Express: Employment Law Protects Workers
This supplement provides basic information about minimum wage, vacations, rest breaks, overtime, statutory holidays and how to read a pay stub. Previously distributed under the title Employment Laws Protect Alberta Workers.

Finding Out: How to get the information you need to make the choices you want
Trying to decide what to do next? To make the best decision, you'll need to find out all you can about your options. This tip sheets make information gathering easy. Start with an inventory of your desires, interests, skills and values. Then, list career options that match. What education is required? What skills? What else do you need? Once you know the questions, this sheets show you where to look for answers.

A Guide for Midlife Career Moves
Publication year: 2007
Changes in your work life may come gradually or quite suddenly, sometimes completely beyond your control. Regardless of why you are going through a career transition, this book for job seekers aged 45 years old or older, will help you take stock of where you are now and where you ultimately want to be.

A Guide to Rights and Responsibilities in Alberta Workplaces
Publication year: 2008
Legislation specifies many of the rules that must be followed in Alberta workplaces by both workers and employers. If you are new to the workplace or an employer with a small- or medium-sized business, this publication can help you find answers to questions about employment standards, health and safety, human rights and workers' compensation procedures. Listed phone numbers and websites direct you to contact information to help you stay within the rules.

Job Seeker's Handbook: An introductory guide to finding work
Publication year: 2007
This basic guide to finding entry-level work is aimed at people who are new to the job search process. It features a skills inventory based on Conference Board of Canada Employability Skills 2000+, sample cover letters and resumés, tips for completing an application form and interview preparation questions. Also features information on scannable resumés.

Job Smart: Tips for staying employed
This basic guide to keeping a job features information about what employers are looking for in their employees. It includes self-assessment exercises, tips on problem solving and a list of helpful community resources. Written in plain language.

Let's Talk: A guide to resolving workplace conflicts
Publication year: 2007
If you've ever experienced disagreements in the workplace, this book is for you. The conflict resolution methods presented are helpful for employees and employers of large, medium and small organizations, whether it's a private sector company or a not-for-profit association. Contains information on how to handle situations internally and where to get outside help.

Making Sense of Labour Market Information
Publication year: 2008
If you're not sure what labour market information is, why you need it or where to find it, then this book is for you. It provides examples of how to use labour market information when making career, learning or employment decisions.

Money 101: Budgeting basics for further education
Publication year: 2008
How are you going to pay for studies at a Canadian college or university? Enrol first in Money 101, a short course about the hard-rock realities of financing your education. Money 101 offers straight talk about why you should invest in further education, how to set personal goals and how to figure out what your education will cost. The book offers suggestions on ways to pay for it, budgeting, banking and avoiding the pitfalls of plastic, and stretching your $$. Students share their experiences with handling money.

Multiple Choices: Planning your career for the 21st century
Publication year: 2006
Every day you are making multiple choices on this journey called your life. This book will help you become comfortable with your choices along the way and provide you with the career building knowledge and skills you need to make decisions more easily. Practical exercises help you clarify your dreams, identify your skills and assets and recognize attitudes and beliefs that either support or hinder you on your life's journey.

Positive Works II
Publication year: 2004
If you believe there are no jobs out there, then you probably won't put much effort into getting one. But if you believe there are opportunities out there, then there will be nothing stopping you. It's amazing what you can accomplish by changing negative attitudes and beliefs into positives ones. This book is full of exercises and tips to help you put those positives to work for you in all areas of your life: goal-setting, learning, improving relationships, coping with stress, and finding and keeping work.

Self-Employment: Is it for me?
Publication year: 2006
Thinking of becoming your own boss? This primer outlines the benefits and challenges of self-employment and examines the motivation, skills, traits and background of successful entrepreneurs. It explores the various forms of self-employment and how to get started in business. There are hints to get you thinking about innovative products and services, information on writing business plans and more.

Skills by Design: Strategies for employee development
Publication year: 2005
Taking the time to read this book is an investment in your company's future. Skills by Design is a toolbox for employers looking to sharpen the skills of their workforce. The publication builds the case that any business, no matter how small, should have the tools and know-how to build and enhance employee skills. It features the why to, how to and practical what to do of employee skills development.

Time to Choose... a post-secondary education program 2010-2011
Publication year: 2008
Planning to take further education in Alberta? Time to Choose... a post-secondary education program has up-to-date information on various education options, what programs are offered and where, overviews and features of the various educational institutions, contacts and more. Includes 2008-2009 program information and 2009-2010 application deadlines.

Training for Work
Publication year: 2005
Training for Work offers creative alternatives to the traditional full-time classroom setting. Take advantage of opportunities that will maximize your training options and consider how mentoring, volunteering, self-study, short-term courses and on-the-job training will boost your employability.

Welcome to Alberta: Information for Newcomers
Publication year: 2009
This guide provides useful information for settling and living in the province. It covers a wide range of topics, including Alberta's geography and climate, housing, employment, education and health care. Other topics include currency and the banking system, childcare, transportation, recreation opportunities and the legal system. In addition, the guide contains phone numbers and Internet addresses for more information.

Woman Today, Edition 2: Making it work!
Publication year: 2005
A bright, information-packed magazine for women who are getting ready to step into the world of paid work, either for the first time or after some stops and starts. Woman Today, Edition 2 will help you balance all the new demands in your life with confidence. "Could Self-Employment Work For You?" "Finding Good Child Care": these and many more articles present valuable information on everything from acting professionally to delegating household chores. Plus valuable advice on what to do about sexual harassment in the workplace.

Workability: What you need to get & keep a job
Publication year: 2007
This revised and expanded workbook provides practical information about key skills and attitudes required by job seekers in today's job market. It includes activities to self-access current skills and develop the skills and attitudes needed for success in the workplace.

Working in Alberta: A guide for internationally trained and educated immigrants
Publication year: 2006
Have you obtained your education and skills training outside of Canada? Do you need to make some decisions about your work life in Alberta? Then this guide could help you get started. Working in Alberta can help you research your occupation in Alberta, look at other work alternatives and become familiar with the Alberta workplace. You'll find information on topics including recognition of international qualifications, registration and certification, occupational information, career management, job search skills and the labour market. It also includes information about the agencies, professional organizations, government departments, websites and publications that can help during this period of transition.

X-treme Safety: A survival guide for new and young workers
Publication year: 2007
This survival guide for young, inexperienced workers is packed with information about workplace health and safety regulations and employment standards in Alberta. Through personal stories, quizzes and checklists, youth gain the information they need to contribute to working in a safe, healthy and fair work environment. This book includes a detachable bookmark that can be used as a reminder for youth to take charge before they take on the job world.