Career Destination: MANITOBA is a gallery of career biographies to help Manitoba youth learn about the diversity of careers in this province.

The profiles have been identified and described in terms of categories like Occupational Field,  School Subject, Typical Education and Industry Sector.

See below for explanations of how these methods help you navigate the web site.

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For your convenience, the profiles have been arranged on the Home Page in work-related clusters we call Occupational Fields. (NB: HRSD calls these "Skill Areas" in the NOC...see below) When you select an Occupational Field, you will see a list of profiles. Clicking on the link for each profile takes you directly to that profile.

To help you further, we have also identified the profiles with "tags" (descriptive words) that are grouped in other categories that are possibly important to you, including School Subject, Typical Education, and Industry Sector.

Human Resources and Social Development Canada developed the NOC to map the occupations that make up the "World of Work". This enables organizations like Statistics Canada to compile the labour market information they produce in ways that are meaningful to other organizations and to people like you. For example, Manitoba Job Futures links NOC codes to labour market information such as 5-year projections of demand for particular occupations.

NOC codes work a bit like the hierarchical Dewey Decimal subject index in libraries. Occupations are grouped by the types of skills they require. The numbers indicate where that occupation fits, and similarity in the numbers indicates similar occupations.

For example:

• NOC 2131 = Civil Engineer
• NOC 2133 = Electrical Engineer

Another example:

• NOC 3131 = Community Pharmacist
• NOC 3152 = Registered Nurse

You can view an HRSD Tutorial on this subject.

You can also see the NOC Matrix, showing the structure of the "World of Work" on one page. (this is a large PDF file).

The Industry Sector is identified by another numbering system called the North American Industry Classification System or NAICS.

NAICS is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. It is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common framework for statistics.

You can learn more about the NAICS and how Statistics Canada uses it by going to StatCan's NAICS 2002 web site.