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Hello my name is Chad Leaman from the Neil Squire Society and this is a presentation
on the NOC website the national occupational classification website.
This demonstration is intended to help you navigate the NOC website to help you complete
your career research. The NOC website has a variety of information
that is very valuable in helping you learn about careers and is the primary source regarding
career information. You can enter the site by picking either English
or French as your way to navigate. Now primarily people use two different ways
to search for a career that they're interested in.
First I would like to show you the quick search this is located on the top left side of the
box says you can enter a four digit NOC code which we’ll talk about shortly or your job
title So let's say I was interested in a career
as a social worker So I typed in the career I'd like to research
And I can click the go button Now NOC will do a search and find different
occupations that meet my search so we have one 4152 social workers and if
I scroll down is another category 4212 for community and social service workers and I
can see under the search it gives me some example job titles that fall under each category
So I'm going to choose 4152 social worker now 4152 is the NOC code this is a very important
piece of information that you should capture so that when you find a career that you're
interested in pursuing you should definitely record the NOC code it’s a unique number
that defines this career and it's useful on more than just the NOC website the same code
is used to classify careers on other information websites that we'll be looking at including
career cruising, job futures, labor market information, and some provincial sites as
well it also is often used on different job to hunting websites so instead of worried
about job title to type in you can use the NOC code and it will find all the careers
and all the jobs that fall within this occupation. So the NOC code is very important for you
to capture. When you open the occupational profile you
will come across the following information again there is the NOC code with the occupation
title after that there is a lead statement that provides a general description of the
occupation. There are some example job titles, different
jobs that fall under this occupational group. And usually it is quite a list if I click
that view all titles link Some of the most important information that
you'll want to read and document in your career research are the main duties giving you a
list of the duties that people in this occupations perform
So you can see a social worker has a very long list of duties that is very common for
all social workers Another really valuable piece of information
are the employment requirements what sort of education, skills and background do you
need to be employed in this occupation. And finally there's a section called classified
elsewhere with other occupations you may wish to investigate and pursue that are similar
to the one you searched but maybe slightly different.
I'm just going to go back a couple pages here the other way that many people searched the
NOC is through the occupational structure this is especially useful if you're not sure
which occupation or career you wish to target By clicking on occupational structure it breaks
down all the possible occupations into nine major categories.
And these actually make up the first digit of your four digit NOC code.
So for example if I wanted to pursue a career in let's choose the social sciences education
government services and religion So you have these different categories and
that's category number four occupations in social science, education, government service
and religion So by clicking on that you can review all
the different jobs and careers that fall under this major occupational group
So for this example let's look at educational counselors that came across us, the code is
4143 So give that a click
so I opened up for 4143 educational counselors, the general description of the job, some example
job titles, the main duties an educational counselor will perform and some employment
requirements that you need to consider before you come in.
Sometimes careers have an additional information piece as well, additional information you
may have to consider and again it always ends with a classified elsewhere similar careers
that you may wish to investigate and explore This concludes our presentation on the national
occupational classification or better known as the NOC website.
If you have any questions on this presentation or need assistance in completing your career
research please do not hesitate to contact your assigned facilitator