Explore career directions & paths
There are many different resources available to help you find the right career for you.
Explore Careers
- Book an appointment: Talk with a Career Development coordinator about different career paths and options.
- Tip Sheet: Exploring Career Paths
- Alberta Occupational Profiles: Alberta-based occupational information with links to assessment tools and career search sites.
- Career Cruising: Offers in-depth profiles of hundreds of different careers and multimedia interviews with real people in every career. Mount Royal students and graduates, call 403.440.6307 for username and password.
- Career Options Magazine: Access Canada's top employment publication for students with the click of a mouse.
- Connect to Professionals in Your Field: Links to Professional Associations that offer career planning, job search and in-depth industry information.
- Conference Board of Canada: Articles and publications offering insights on economic trends and public policy direction.
- Government of Canada: Job market trends and news.
- Designing YOU - by MRU's David J. Finch, Associate Professor - Marketing, and Ray DePaul, Director - Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Designing YOU - Life Beyond Your Grades is about viewing yourself and your life more strategically, and designing a road map to help you address the questions about your future you're getting right now.
Career Assessments and Quizzes
- Service Canada: Career quizzes and tests can help you choose, change or develop your career. Get to know yourself better and explore the wide range of career opportunities available to you.
- Authentic Happiness: Explore your personality, values and job satisfiers.
- Entrepreneurial potential self-assessment: A tool to help better measure your entrepreneurial potential. From the Business Development Bank of Canada
