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 freeÂ
-  - Originally designed for UCalgary 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.
- Â - discover a complete profile of your strengths
-  – Gain insight about your personality at work. We recommend the Personality, Conflict Styles, or Peer Feedback assessments.
-  – a free tool to help you dive deeper into your personality
-  – a business career self-assessment to uncover your potential interests, motivators and skills. Note: UCalgary 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 ownÂ
-  – How to write professional development goals that work (Connect to Perform Learning Series)
-  – 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 – Explore the programs offered at the university to help you build your skills.
- Tuition Support – Through the university’s tuition support benefit, employees can pursue academic and continuing education courses
Finding Your Next Opportunity
Learn about current opportunities at UCalgary 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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Support and Counselling
- Are you a UCalgary Alumni? Visit the  to discover what career support is available for you!
- Employee and Family Assistance Plan – Did you know that our Employee and Family Assistance Provider offers career counselling?