The first career planning book in the Easy Reading series uses stories, checklists, and exercises, to help adults with low literacy create a short list of one to three jobs to investigate. Work and You Book 1 takes readers through a brief self-assessment and introduces them to the Easy Reading occupational clusters. Readers are encouraged to contact their career advisor or tutor for help when using this book.

The second career planning workbook in the Easy Reading series help readers research and evaluate the short list of jobs they created in Book 1. In the end, readers choose an occupational goal to pursue. Like Book 1, this book uses stories, checklists and exercises to help readers through each step. It is recommended that readers complete Book 1 before beginning Book 2. Readers are encouraged to contact their career advisor or tutor for help when using this book.

This resource was created for an Alberta audience, but the information is applicable to people across Canada. This resource is part of the Easy Reading group of resources produced by ALIS.


Resource Links

Book 1: Make some job choices

Book 2: Decide on a job


ALIS, Government of Alberta