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Career Exploration Tips

Career Exploration Tips. Unit 2. What Is a Career?. T he Oxford English Dictionary describes it as an individual's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". One can have a sporting career or a musical career without being a professional athlete or musician

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Career Exploration Tips

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  1. Career Exploration Tips Unit 2

  2. What Is a Career? • The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as an individual's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". • One can have a sporting career or a musical career without being a professional athlete or musician • But most frequently "career" in the 20th century referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's money. • Today career refers to an individual’s work and life roles over their lifespan.

  3. Think Field (not occupation) • Fields of works are more stable that occupations in many cases • i.e. Healthcare is a field of work • Nursing, massage therapy, pharmacy aid, and physical therapist assistant would be specific occupations within healthcare

  4. Think Pathway (not destination) • Matching your values, interests, learning styles, multiple intelligences and personal qualities increases job satisfaction • Don’t just choose a “job” because it will give you social standing or please your parents • (i.e. “I want to be a doctor so I can make lots of money and people with think highly of me)

  5. Think Options • A serious mistake is rare in career decision-making because there are always other choices or options • “Where one door closes, another one opens”

  6. Think Critically • Do your own research! • Don’t just accept what other people tell you, or what you hear or see in print

  7. Where to get started • http://www.workingincanada.gc.ca • NOC • The National Occupational Classification (NOC) is the authoritative resource on occupational information in Canada • It is used daily by thousands of people to understand the jobs found throughout Canada's labour market

  8. NOC Codes • NOC code is a number that Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) has assigned to a particular occupation • NOC codes are designed so that you can easily find out about occupations that are related to your career choice

  9. NOC breakdown • The NOC breaks occupations down into 10 sectors: • Management Occupations • Business, Finance and Administration Occupations • Natural and Applied Sciences and Related Occupations • Health Occupations • Occupations in Social Science, Education, Government Service and Religion • Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport • Sales and Service Occupations • Trades, Transport and Equipment Operators and Related Occupations • Occupations unique to Primary Industry • Occupations Unique to Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities

  10. For example… • NOC code for a cook is 6242 • “6” means that it is a “Sales and Service” type of occupation • “62” is the major group number for all occupations in the “Skilled Sales and Service Occupations” family • “624” is the minor group number for chefs and cooks; these are similar occupations and are grouped together • “6242” is the code just for cooks

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