DESCRIPTION: Purchasing agents and officers buy the supplies and business services that their companies need to create their own goods and services.

DESCRIPTION: Research, design and develop machinery and systems for heating, ventilating and air conditioning, power generation, transportation, processing and manufacturing.

Perform duties related to the evaluation, installation, operation and maintenance of mechanical systems.

DESCRIPTION: Managers in natural resources production and fishing are responsible for planning, organizing and directing operations.

DESCRIPTION: Light duty cleaners ensure the lobbies, hallways, offices and rooms of office buildings, hotels, hospitals, schools and private homes are clean.

DESCRIPTION: Insulators apply insulation materials to plumbing, air-handling, heating, cooling and refrigeration systems, piping equipment and pressure vessels, and walls, floors and ceilings of buildings and other structures, to prevent or reduce the passage of heat, cold, sound or fire.

DESCRIPTION: Evaluate and monitor health and safety hazards and develop strategies to control risks in the workplace.

DESCRIPTION: Information systems analysts and consultants work with software, hardware and wiring infrastructure. They plan, manage and review information systems, and help to improve a company’s computer networks, performance and security.

People with this career have skills in computer programming, internet and web applications, structured analysis, data modelling and information engineering. They also work with mathematical modelling and sampling. Information systems analysts and consultants need to have good communication skills and be able to research and plan projects.

DESCRIPTION: May work independently or provide technical support and services in the development of production methods, facilities and systems, and the planning, estimating, measuring and scheduling of work.

DESCRIPTION: Human resources managers direct, control and run the operations of human resources and personnel departments. They also develop and carry out policies and procedures regarding human resource planning, hiring, training and development and pay and benefit management.

DESCRIPTION: Financial managers plan, manage and evaluate the operations of financial and accounting departments. They put in place the financial policies and systems for a company and make sure they run well. People in this job work in private, not-for-profit and public sector organizations.