DESCRIPTION: Accountants and financial auditors organize, review and manage financial records and transactions for companies and people. They make sure that information is accurate and meets established accounting standards. This group includes articling students in accounting firms.
DESCRIPTION: Facility operation and maintenance managers plan, organize and direct operational activities or maintenance departments.
DESCRIPTION: Plan, organize and direct the activities of an engineering department, service or firm.
DESCRIPTION: Electrical and electronics engineers design, plan, research, review and test electrical and electronic equipment and systems.
Electrical and electronics engineers can work in the public and private sector. People in this career are employed by companies in many different sectors including manufacturing, processing, transportation, electrical utilities and communications. They may work for manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment, consulting firms and government.
DESCRIPTION: Work independently or provide technical support and services in the design, development, testing, production and operation of electrical and electronic equipment and systems.
DESCRIPTION: Crane operators run cranes or draglines to lift, move and position heavy objects, such as building materials or machinery at construction or industrial sites, ports, railway yards, surface mines and similar locations.
DESCRIPTION: This group includes heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, millwrighting and elevator installation trade contractors who own and operate their own businesses.
This group also includes supervisors employed in a wide range of establishments who supervise and coordinate the activities of workers classified in groups within the following areas:
DESCRIPTION: Electrical trades and telecommunications contractors supervise and coordinate the activities of workers in the following occupational groups:
DESCRIPTION: Computer programmers and interactive media developers design computer programs and write, edit, integrate and test computer code. Computer code is a step-by-step set of detailed and logical instructions that tell a computer to perform a task. It’s a language that uses numbers, letters and other symbols which become “words” that a computer understands.
DESCRIPTION: Computer and information systems managers plan and oversee computer and information systems. They work for companies that design, develop and manage computer and telecommunications software, networks and information systems in both the private and public sector.