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What do graduates do? : Types of work categories

Marketing, sales and advertising professionals

Includes advertising writers and executives; auctioneers, buying and purchasing officers; contract officers; estate, land or letting agents; fundraising, appeals and campaign organisers; market research analysts; marketing professionals; media planners; public relations officers; sales controllers, administrators, representatives and agents and technical sales agents.

Commercial, industrial and public sector managers

Includes officers in the armed forces; general managers & administrators in national & local government, large companies & organisations; production managers in manufacturing, construction, mining & energy industries; specialist managers; financial institution & office managers, & civil service executive officers; managers in transport & storing; protective service officers; managers in farming, horticulture, forestry & fishing; managers & proprietors in service industries; and other managers & administrators.

Scientific research, analysis & development professionals

Includes chemists; biological scientists & biochemists; physicists, geologists & meteorologists; and other natural scientists.

Engineering professionals

Includes civil, structural, municipal, mining & quarrying engineers; mechanical engineers; electrical engineers; electronic engineers; chemical engineers; design & development engineers; process & production engineers; planning & quality control engineers; and other engineers & technologists.

Health professionals and associate professionals

Includes medical practitioners; house officers; registrars & consultants; pharmacists & pharmacologists; ophthalmic opticians; dental practitioners; veterinarians; nurses; midwives; medical radiographers; physiotherapists; chiropodists; dispensing opticians; medical technicians & dental auxiliaries; occupational & speech therapists, psychotherapists & other therapists; environmental health officers; and other health associate professionals.

Education professionals

Includes university teaching professionals; further education teaching professionals; education officers, school inspectors; secondary (& middle school deemed secondary) education teaching professionals; primary (& middle school deemed primary) & nursery education teaching professionals; special education teaching professionals; examiners & moderators and other teaching professionals.

Business and financial professionals and associate professionals

Includes chartered & certified accountants; management accountants; actuaries, economists & statisticians; management consultants & business analysts; estimators & valuers; underwriters, claims assessors, brokers & investment analysts; taxation experts; personnel & industrial relations officers; transport and traffic advisors; events co-ordinators; recuitment agents; organisation & methods & work study officers.

Information technology professionals

Includes computer systems & data processing managers; software engineers; computer analysts & programmers; computer & IT consultants; telecommunications professionals and network systems professionals.

Arts, design, culture and sports professionals

Includes authors, writers & journalists; artists, commercial artists & graphic designers; industrial designers & textile designers; clothing designers; actors, entertainers, stage managers, producers & directors; musicians; photographers, camera, sound & video equipment operators; professional athletes & sports officials; web designers and desk top publishers, assistants and operators.

Legal professionals

Includes adjudicators, tribunal & panels members; barristers & advocates; clerks & officers of court; judges, magistrates, coroners & sheriffs; legal advisers, executives & paralegals and solicitors.

Social & welfare professionals

Includes community workers; counsellors; drug workers; housing and welfare officers; clinical, education, occupationals & general psychologists; probation officers; social workers and youth workers.

Other professionals, associate professional and technical occupations

Includes general researchers; social science researchers; architects; town planners; surveyors; public service administrative professionals; registrars; clergy; librarians, archivists & curators; technicians; aircraft pilots, flight engineers & navigators; conservation, heritage & environmental protection officers; health and safety officers; industrial & trading standards inspectors; environmental health officers and careers advisers.

Numerical clerks and cashiers

Includes accounts & wages clerks, book-keepers, & other financial clerks; counter clerks & cashiers; and debt, rent & other cash collectors.

Other clerical and secretarial occupations

Includes administrative & clerical officers & assistants in civil service & local government; filing & records clerks; other clerks; stores & despatch clerks & storekeepers; secretaries, personal assistants, typists, word processor operators; receptionists, telephonists & related occupations; and other clerical & secretarial occupations.

Retail, catering, waiting and bar staff

Includes chefs & cooks, waiters & waitresses & bar staff; and sales assistants & check-out operators.

Other occupations

Includes assistant nurses & nursing auxiliaries; hospital ward assistants; ambulance staff; dental nurses; care assistants & attendants; nursery nurses; playgroup leaders; educational assistants; ncos and other ranks, armed forces; police officers; fire service officers; prison service officers; customs & excise officers & immigration officers; traffic wardens; security guards & related occupations; craft & related occupations (skilled and unskilled); other personal & protective occupations; other sales occupations; agricultural occupations; plant & machine operatives; and other occupations.

Written by HECSU and AGCAS, October 2011

 
 
 
 

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