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 the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Occupational Themes.

Key terms

Occupation list. Any attempt to classify various occupations. No one can be considered 'complete' or 'final.'

• Assistant. Someone who helps someone else to do a job. As an adjective, this term can also be used to indicate that someone holds a less important position in an organization than another person without this adjective, assistant, in his or her job title.
• Clerk. Someone who works in an office, dealing with records and/or performing general customer support and/or document management duties.
• Consultant. Someone who advises 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 on the one hand and skilled in working with people on the other hand.
• Laborer. Someone who does physical work, which requires those KSAs that can be learned fast and easily.
• Manager. Someone who achieves those goals that are assigned to him or her through his or her subordinates.
• Operator. Someone who makes something like machinery or other equipment work or puts something into action.
• Originator. Someone who creates and shapes new concepts, as well as makes them real or participates in the developments of real deliverables often as a product owner.
• Service worker (social service worker, pink-collar worker). Someone 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.
• Specialist. Someone who has significant experience, knowledge, or skill in a particular subject.
• Technician. Someone whose job is to 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.
• Trades worker. Someone who is 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.

Script

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

CNM Cyber uses a simplified list that includes just 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.

Work Arrangements is the successor lectio.