What we offer
This site was designed for students based on results from focus test across Canada. However, this site not only offers information for students, it has parent and educator areas as well.
If you are an industry representative or someone with an interest in youth, career awareness and IT, we have included ways that you may like to participate on this site.
Students
Find out how Information Technology works — and how you can be part of it.
DiscoverIT.org can help you make the best decisions for your career, and your future :
- Create your career plan. Start with self-assessment. Learn all about you!
- Labour marketinformation. Find out about jobs, salaries, education and employment requirements.
- Educational choices. Check out links to Canadian schools with Uni-Search-ITy. Research your financing options, such as bursaries and scholarships.
- ITprofiles. See and hear from people working in IT careers .
- Career descriptions. Look inside real jobs for your opportunities.
- Get more information. Follow the best links to more career choices.
- IT today , and tomorrow. Learn where IT has been and where it’s going.
Educators and parents
DiscoverIT.org has information on educational and career opportunities in Information Technology, to help you guide high school students to find their future in IT.
- Self-assessment helps you enable students to focus on their potential.
- Labour market information. Find out about the IT labour market.
- Careers in IT offers insight into job requirements, salary ranges and daily routines to assist in shaping career direction.
- Educational choices provide you with essential information such as financing options – including bursaries and scholarships — as well as links to schools at Uni-Search-ITy.
- Technology and the Internet and computer literacy articles display opportunities to stimulate interest in students.
Also for Educators:
- Technology in the classroom. Activities and teaching aids that help you empower students to use the wealth of knowledge at their fingertips.
- Career planning tools, including self-assessment quizzes and résumé guides, make it easier for students to plan.
- Classroom activities on a wide range of topics, such as integrating IT into our daily lives, bring reality to the learning experience.
- Exercises that bring the global village into the classroom help students identify roles and responsibilities that lie ahead.
- Links and resources to topical educational and training resources broaden the scope of opportunity.
Industry and Partners
The IT industry and other sectors of the economy rely on skilled, trained IT people to succeed. To reach and motivate the right young people into Information Technology, projects like the DiscoverIT.org website exist. The website’s success is influenced by actively involving partners in industry, education and government. DiscoverIT.org can be a vehicle to help you:
- promote the IT industry as a great place to work
- attract intelligent and energetic young people to IT
- build a future employee pool of focused youth
- help young people make positive career choices
- gain recognition for your business as a dedicated corporate citizen