Introducing the RVT Career Navigator!
The RVT Career Navigator is a dedicated career planning and advancement website to support and empower Registered Veterinary Technologists/Technicians and to position the profession as a career with limitless opportunities.
Being bilingual, national in scope and interactive, the RVT Career Navigator will enable high school students, second career/mature students, students of veterinary technology and RVTs to investigate, explore and create their own career pathway based on their skills, experience, education, interests and professional goals. With input from an advisory panel of RVT practitioners, provincial veterinary technician associations and other leaders in the field, the RVT Career Navigator will certainly become a key career tool for the RVT profession, now and into the future.
The RVT Career Navigator at-a-glance
Features
- The RVT Career Navigator encompasses the following sections: Who are RVTs?; Want to become an RVT?; Career paths; Chart Your Career; Tools & Resources; Join a
Discussion; Mentorship; and FAQs. - Tips & checklists: These shareable, downloadable and printable resources will help users navigate the job search process with tangible information on: how to write a resume; preparing for an interview; job offer considerations, etc.
- Tools & resources: In this section, users will find useful links such as to provincial veterinary technician associations; post-secondary institutions offering veterinary technician programs; VTS specialization academies; and micro-credentialing institutions.
- Continuing education and job board: Users will easily find call-outs to the RVTTC continuing education portal and the site’s career opportunities page.
- Chart your career tool: This is a career charting tool based on 45 user profiles. The tool is intended as a guide to help users explore and create their own career pathways based on how they identity/who they are, on their skills and experience, education and professional goals. Users will be able to create their user profile and to securely log in at any time to access their dashboard. At the end of the four-step process, the user will have a career profile complete with specific information and links relevant to their choices. At any point, the user can delete their career profile and start again to match where they are on their path.
- Career paths in animal health infographic: This shareable, downloadable and printable infographic gives an at-a-glance view of the many paths an animal healthcare professional can navigate in their career.
We invite you to explore www.rvtcareernavigator.ca to engage your passion and find your future in veterinary medicine!
2022: RVT Career Navigator has received the Veterinary Medical Association Executives (VMAE) Best in Business Award as well as an Award of Excellence from the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE).