Core Occupations

Core Occupations (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Nature of Occupations lesson that introduces its participants to occupations and related topics.

WorldOpp Pipeline

This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Employment session of EmployableU Concepts.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Occupational Interests.

Script

Different occupation lists include thousands descriptions of various occupations. No list can be considered 'complete' or 'final.'

CNM Social powers social networks of those workers who belong to the same occupation. CNMCyber utilizes its own taxonomy that identifies 11 core occupations. Assistants help someone else to do their jobs. Clerks work in an office, dealing with records and/or performing general customer support and/or document management duties.

Consultants advise other people and/or enterprises on one or more particular subjects. A consultant can also be defined as a specialist and social worker combined. Advanced consultants tend to be subject matter experts (SMEs) on the one hand and skilled in working with people on the other hand.

Laborers do physical work, which requires those KSAs that can be learned fast and easily. On the contrary, specialists must have significant experience, knowledge, or skill in a particular subject.

Managers achieve those goals that are assigned to them through their subordinates. Operators make something like machinery or other equipment work or puts something into action.

Originators create and shape new concepts, as well as make them real or participate in the developments of real deliverables often as a product owner.

Service workers are those whose labor is related to social interaction and/or other service-oriented work. Service workers can be engaged in customer support, entertainment, sales, social work, etc.

Technicians make sure that machinery, other equipment, and pieces of technology such as laboratories work correctly, which may include making them work if they don't.

Finally, trades workers are practically skilled in some area of advanced physical work like carpentering, construction, equipment installing, plumbing, printing, and welding, carries out his or her work by hand and has learned his or her skill completely or primarily on the job in at least one year and, usually, from some mentor.

Key terms

Occupation list, assistant, clerk, consultant, laborer, manager, operator, originator, service worker (social service worker, pink-collar worker), specialist, technician, trades worker

Closing

Do you target any particular occupation for your future work? --Yes/No/Let's move on for now

Work Characteristics is the successor lectio.