<p>Using the National Occupational Classification</p><p>Canada’s National Occupational Classification, or NOC 2011, assigns a four-digit code to every job in Canada based on its duties, required skills, and the training and experience a person needs in order to do it. It organizes over 40 000 jobs into 500 occupational groups.  http://noc.esdc.gc.ca/#6  https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/search_occupation_allnoc.do</p><p>1. Use Alberta’s NOC tutorial to find out about the National Occupational Classification, or NOC 2011.  http://www.albertacanada.com/opportunity/programs-and-forms/NOC-tutorial.aspx </p><p> a) Find out what the numbers in the NOC code mean.</p><p> The numbers in the NOC code identify a certain job. The first digit in the NOC code for a certain job identifies the skill type. The second number indicates the skill level, often associated with a certain level of education or training. </p><p>First Skill Type Number 0 Management 1 Business, Finance And Administration 2 Natural And Applied Sciences And Related 3 Health 4 Social Science, Education, Government Service And Religion 5 Art, Culture, Recreation And Sport 6 Sales And Service 7 Trades, Transport And Equipment Operators 8 Unique To Primary Industry (mining, fishing, lumber, etc.) 9 Unique To Processing, Manufacturing And Utilities</p><p>Second Skill Level Number 1 Professional – University Technical, Para-Professional – College, Technical, 2 or 3 Apprenticeship 4 or 5 Intermediate – High School & On-the-Job Training 6 Labour – No Formal Education b) Find out the skill type and skill level and occupation associated with the following codes.</p><p>NOC code Skill type Skill level Occupation 0433 4122 6277 9610 5255</p><p> c) Which occupational fields interest you?  Using a scale from 1 to 5, indicate which sectors you are interested in. (1 being not at all interested & 5 being very interested.) Place an X under the column.</p><p>Occupational Examples 1 2 3 4 5 Fields: Do you like to influence, persuade, lead or manage to meet 0 organizational goals? Do you like to make decisions, meet Management people, initiate projects, give talks or speeches, organize activities or lead a group? Do you like to work with data using clerical or numerical 1 ability, carry out tasks in detail and follow through on others’ Business, instructions? This career path includes accounting, Finance & information services, administration, inventory purchasing & Administration receiving, and personnel/employment. 2 Do you like math, science, computers, architecture or Natural And environment studies? This career path includes engineering, Applied meteorology, chemistry, forestry, technicians, computer & Sciences And information systems, energy systems, pilots, air & rail traffic Related controllers. Do you like working with people to promote health as well as 3 treat injuries, conditions & diseases? This path includes Health medicine, dentistry, optometry, laboratories, nursing, rehabilitation, fitness and hygiene. 4 Occupations in Social Do you like working with people in education, law, child & Science, family services, religion? This career path includes Education, teachers/professors/ECE, counselors, judges/lawyers/parole Government officers, government researchers & politicians. Service and Religion Do you like to sketch, draw, paint, play musical instruments, 5 write stories, poetry and music, sing, dance, act, take photos Art, Culture, and be physically active? This career path includes creative Recreation & writing, film & cinema studies, fine arts, graphic design & Sport production, journalism, foreign languages, public relations, coaching, instructing in recreation & sport. 6 Do you like to help people in their daily lives? This career Sales & path includes retail, wholesale, restaurants, travel & tourism, Services protective services, child care, personal services and cleaning. 7 Trades, Do you like to work hands-on with objects, machines, tools, Transport and equipment? This career path includes construction trades, Equipment mechanics, repairers, transportation (Air, marine, rail, road, Operators space). and Related Occupations 8 Occupations Farming & ranching, work involving plants or animals, Unique to inspecting, logging/sawmills/pulp & paper, mining, oil drilling Primary Industry 9 Occupations Do you want to work in making paper, gas, fabric, electronics, Unique to electricity, processed food, autos, concrete, etc? This career Processing, path includes machine operators, assemblers, labourers, Manufacturing supervisors and inspectors. and Utilities</p><p> d) For each occupation below, find the Occupational Field (First Number) and the Skill Level (Second Number). From the previous page, give the name of the field & name of the skill level</p><p>Occupational Field Skill Level Person & Career (# and Name) (# and Name) Example: Director of 0 – Management 3 -- College Nursing a) Carpenter</p><p> b) Payroll Clerk</p><p> c) Biologist</p><p> d) Graphic Designer</p><p> e) Audiologist f) Elementary School Teacher g) Cattle Farmer h) Heavy Equipment Operator i) Police Officer e) The NOC job bank at https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/home-eng.do or at http://noc.esdc.gc.ca/English/noc/Introduction.aspx?ver=16#sl can be used to search for possible careers. You can search by occupation, wages, outlook, skills and knowledge, or location. if you know the field you are interested in (ie skill type) AND you know the level of education you would like to pursue (ie skill level).</p><p> Search for five careers that interest you using the skill type and skill level that most interest you. It’s a place to start!</p><p>Skill type Skill level</p><p>NOC Occupation</p>