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The criteria listed below can be important when choosing an occupation. However, their importance is not the same for everyone. Try and click on three or four that you consider most important.
You will see how you can use them for making decisions in our program.
Is the professional orientation of your future work most important to you?
You may like to select an occupation according to what or who you work with there. For example:
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|  metals and metal products | | wood and wooden products, furniture | | textile and leather | | rubber and plastic | | glass and ceramics | | excavating the earth's crust, mining coal, ores, quarrying stone | | buildings, building materials | | electricity, electrical engineering, electronics | | telecommunications, telegraph, radio | | information technology (not just as a user) | | audio, video, film | | energy | | water, dams, ships | | etc. |
Another possibility is selection by school subjects.
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| | native language | | foreign languages | | mathematics | | physics | | etc. |
Is the content of the work you will do particularly important to you?
You may like to select an occupation by the type of work activity. For example:
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| | operating machines and equipment | | driving a vehicle | | steering mobile machines | | repairing, adjusting | | assembling | | measuring, testing | | shaping, machining | | precise hand work | | putting together, building | | mixing, combining | | painting, coating, surface finishing | | restoring, preserving | | cleaning, disinfecting | | storing | | etc. |
It is also important for you to see the descriptions of occupations and learn from them about the activities and means of work, and also have a look at the photographs of the main activities. For example:
Mining rescuer
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A mining rescuer is a worker who performs or manages work when rescuing human lives and preventing major damage during mining accidents and disasters.
The work is carried out in underground or strip mines: a lot of dust and dirt must be expected, as well as noise. The work is done in shifts and is generally dangerous.
The tools of work are various types of mining rescue equipment.
In order to carry out successfully the tasks of this occupation, the applicant must be trained, have the ability to react quickly, organisational skills, physical fitness and agility.
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Is the achievement of a certain level of education (e.g. school leaving examination or a university degree) most important to you?
Whatever way of selecting an occupation you use (except the skills and interest questionnaires ), you always have the option to enter the level of education you would like to achieve. In that case the sample of selected occupations will be limited to those corresponding to the educational level entered. For example:
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| | native language | | foreign languages | | mathematics | | physics | | chemistry | | etc. |
Is the type of workplace where you will spend your working life most important to you?
You may like to select an occupation by the type of workplace. For example:
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| | office, meeting room | | studio, drawing office | | laboratory, observatory | | workshop, factory, warehouse | | power station, gasworks, boiler plant, waterworks | | airport, railway station | | building site (including laying water mains, sewage pipes, gas mains, etc.) | | mine, quarry | | a vehicle | | restaurant, pub, café, bar | | shop | | counter (in a bank, post office, etc.) | | salon (cosmetic, hairdressing, etc.) | | hospital, surgery or other health care facility | | households | | etc. |
Is the salary or wage level most important to you?
After you have selected an occupation or occupations by any search method this program offers, you should see some statistics on the salary or wage levels in different occupational areas.
For example: (!!!NP links to national statistics !!!).
Is the type of clothes you will wear at work particularly important to you?
You may like to select an occupation by the type of clothing ("Clothes Make the Man"). For example:
Are the risks and inconveniences of the different occupations particularly important to you?
Whatever way of selecting an occupation you use (except the interests and skills questionnaires), you always have the option of entering the limiting conditions, thus removing from your selection the occupations that have something you would not like. For example:
Is an occupation you could do even if you have a health problem particularly important to you?
You may like to select an occupation by the type of the health problem ("For People with Health Problems"). For example:
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| | problems that need special care with food and diet – e.g. diabetes or food allergies | | tendency to fits or fainting – e.g. severe epilepsy, diabetes, severe anaemia | | sight defects - e.g. very short sight or astigmatism, if your sight can’t be fully corrected with glasses or contact lenses | | hearing defects - when your problem can’t be corrected with some kind of hearing aid | | problems with your heart and/or circulation – e.g. heart disease and related illnesses | | etc. |
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