🔎Activity: Explore The Skills Landscape (Exploratory only)

Occupation is defined as "A collection of jobs sufficiently similar in the work performed to be grouped under a common label" - LMiC

Occupational information can be useful for learning about the specific tasks, responsibilities, and skills required for different positions.  Occupational information is also useful for skills gap analysis because it helps us assess our current skills against the skills needed for different jobs. 

Occupational profiles can include: 

• sample job titles
• main duties
• educational and skill requirements
• industry required credentials
• wages/salaries, and future outlook

Activity

Use the web to review an occupational profile of interest from two different sites.  There are some links below to get you started, or you can find other sites of your choosing.

Use your Workbook to record your answers for the following activity: 

• What are the similarities between the occupational profiles from each site, and
• what are the differences between the occupational profiles?

Useful Links for this Activity:

• Explore Careers by Skills and Knowledge
  
• Explore an Occupation
• WorkBC Explore Careers
• Alberta careers, learning, and employment information
• Government of Canada: National Occupation Classification (NOC) 
• Occupational Information Network (O*NET) United States