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Is it still useful for someone who lives in Canada? I live in Canada.
Here is the Canadian equivalent which is Statistics Canada.
Oh ok thank you! By the way, what do you mean by career progression?
When you start a career, you begin at what they call entry level. Then as you gain experience, you get promoted or you seek other opportunities in the same field that pay more money. Career progression is basically how you are advancing in the field.
Oh ok thanks
Are you in Quebec? The CEGEP system there is specifically a great and cheap way to try out multiple career paths. It's like a mix of trade school and the freshman year of every university faculty.
It's still a system that sort of pushes you into university without any experience of what doing a real job is like, but it's at least a good way to explore the academic side of a wide variety of subjects.
No, I'm in Alberta unfortunately