Unit 1: Why Am I Doing This?

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UNIT SUMMARY

It is always a good idea to bookmark Internet sites that you find useful. But bookmarks are only as useful as you make them. In this activity, you will begin to organize your career-related bookmarks.

1. Go to the Newfoundland and Labrador WorkinfoNet site and jot down the categories of career-related links that have been used. Now go to the Toronto Public Library Career Bookmarks site and do the same thing.
   
   
2. Using these two lists and the Table of Contents of Careers For Life, make a working list of categories for your own bookmarks.
   
   
3. Your web browser has a bookmark function. If you are not familiar with how to use it, use the help function to learn how to create and name bookmark folders.
   
   
4. Create bookmark folders for the categories of career-related bookmarks you have chosen.
   
   
5. Go back to the bookmarks you have already saved and file them in their appropriate folders.
   
   
6. Look at the individual bookmarks. Are the titles that were saved informative enough to be useful to you at a glance? If not, learn how to change the name of your bookmark and do so.
   
   
7. Now explore either of the above sites a little more. At Newfoundland and Labrador WorkinfoNet, got to the list of sites under the Career Planning category. On the Toronto Library Career Bookmarks site, go to the list of Self-Assessment Tools. In both instances, make notes of the kind of descriptive information provided for each site.
   
   
8. Go back to your own bookmarks and find out how to include descriptions of each site. Add information to each bookmark that you think will be useful to you in the future.