Career Trek Videos

Sara, an acupuncturist, explains to Mariam how acupuncture can treat pain and help people get back to optimal health. The most rewarding part of her job is when her clients realize how powerful acupuncture is and how able their body is to heal.

Watch as Mariam travels to North Vancouver to meet Danielle, an audiologist. Danielle’s focus is to help people manage their hearing health and to ease communication difficulties. She describes an audiological assessment and explains what a great sense of accomplishment knowing how much she is changing someone’s life.

A chiropractor in Vancouver shows Mariam how she works with clients doing chiropractic assessments, adjustments, soft tissue therapy and teaching exercises. Her role in improving her patients’ quality of life is the greatest reward of the job.

Brian meets a clinical psychologist who assesses patients' problems and teaches them how to change their behaviour. She demonstrates how she communicates with children. She says a great psychologist needs to be empathic and really connect with people.

Brian meets a dental assistant in Summerland who helps the dentist by passing instruments during treatment, taking x-rays, recording everything that is done, and maintains the patient's records. It's a great stepping stone to careers in health care!

A dental hygienist shares with Brian all the elements of her job, from reviewing clinical data to cleaning and polishing teeth. She explains that educating her clients on how to keep a healthy smile is also a big part of her job.

Brian heads to Vancouver to meet a dentist. Here he meets a dentist who emphasizes the creativity she brings to running her business and in her work where "each tooth is like a little sculpture". It's rewarding to make people smile!

Brian learns how a Prince George dietitian works with clients to balance their diets and meet their health goals. She tailors nutritional plans for a wide range of people and needs, becoming a key part of their journey to better health.

As a director of counselling, Ofir shares with Mariam his daily responsibilities of seeing clients, supporting his counsellors and training new counsellors in the practicum program. “The goal is to improve our clients’ lives to the best of our abilities.”

Brenna, early childhood educator and manager of Kelowna’s Aboriginal Head Start program, works with three- to five-year-old children of First Nations, Métis and Inuit heritage to teach them language, social skills and cultural identity. Giving children the opportunity to be proud of who they are and where they come from is the most fulfilling aspect of Brenna’s work.

An educator at a daycare centre leads Brian and the children through various activities. There is no limit to the training available for preschool educators. In this rewarding career, you teach children the skills they'll use for a lifetime.

Viviana heads to Williams Lake to meet an employment case manager, who describes helping clients learn how to search for and land a job. When clients win the jobs they've worked toward, she shares their joy. "It's the most amazing feeling."