Find Your Fit

Students at Shuswap Middle School will have an exciting opportunity to explore careers as WorkBC’s Find Your Fit event will be at the school on May 5-6. Find Your Fit is a fun, interactive event that helps students discover and explore careers—from a nurse to a technologist to a carpenter —getting hands-on experience at up to 16 different stations.

Students will first visit career activity stations where they can take part in a hands-on activity related to a specific career. These activities will help students uncover their strengths and interests, giving them the knowledge they need to get started with their career planning. They’ll then move on to a labour market information station, where they can dig deeper into a career of their choice.

Career activity stations

Career activity stations are available for careers across a variety of sectors, as well as two career zone activity stations where multiple careers in technology and health are featured. Career activity stations are available for:

• Air Pilot
• Auto Service Technician
• Carpenters
• Computer Programmers
• Electrical Technologists/Engineers
• Heavy Duty Mechanics/Millwrights
• Physiotherapist
• Social/Community Workers
• Career Health Zone:
  • General Practitioner/Family Doctor
  • Registered Nurse and Nurse’s Aide
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Psychiatrist 
  • Medical Sonographer
• Career Tech Zone:
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
  • Computer Network Technicians and Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Information Systems Analysts and Consultants
  • Software Engineers and Designers
  • Web Designers and Developers

Labour market information stations

Once students have completed the career activity stations, they can dive into a career of interest by visiting labour market stations. Specific stations are set up for the following occupations:

• Cooks/Chefs
• Property Administrators
• Professional Occupations in Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations
• HR Professionals
• Purchasing Agents and Officers
• Civil Engineers
• Early Childhood Educators
• Plumbers

Find Your Fit tour event staff will be right there with students guiding them through all of the WorkBC career planning and labour market information available. They can learn about the careers featured at the labour market information stations or they can research more about a career they’re already interested in.

Students will learn about WorkBC’s Career Toolkit, which contains WorkBC career profiles, Career Trek videos, career quizzes and more. They’ll also learn how to navigate WorkBC to find all of the career information they need.