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Information on more than 50 Top Entry Level Jobs

martin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:32:13 +0000

Here is a listing of the Top 50 Entry Level Jobs as identified in Essential Skills Profiles: Top 50 Entry-Level Jobs in Canada (2011) posted at nald.ca. To learn more about each job, click on the job name. To learn what Essential Skills are required for that job, click on the Skills Required link beside the job you want to know more about. For more information on each job, click on OSP Info link below to go to the Ontario Skills Passport website.

1411 General Office Clerks – Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1414 Receptionists and Switchboard Operators — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1422 Data Entry Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1431 Accounting Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1433 Customer Service Representatives — Financial Services — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1435 Collectors — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1441 Administrative Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1453 Customer Service, Information and Related Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1454 Survey Interviewers and Statistical Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1471 Shippers and Receivers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1472 Storekeepers and Parts Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1474 Purchasing and Inventory Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

1475 Dispatchers and Radio Operators — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

3413 Nurse Aides, Orderlies and Patient Service Associates — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

3414 Other Assisting Occupations in Support of Health Services — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6411 Sales Representatives — Wholesale Trade (non-technical) — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6421 Retail Salespersons and Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6433 Airline Sales and Service Agents — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6435 Hotel Front Desk Clerks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6451 Maîtres d’hôtel and Hosts/Hostesses — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6452 Bartenders — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6453 Food and Beverage Servers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6471 Visiting Homemakers, Housekeepers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6474 Babysitters, Nannies, Parents’ Helpers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6481 Image, Social and Other Personal Consultants — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6482 Estheticians, Electrologists and Related Occupations — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6611 Cashiers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6622 Grocery Clerks and Shelf Stockers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6623 Other Sales Occupations — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6641 Kitchen Helpers and Line Cooks — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6651 Security Guards and Related Occupations — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6661 Cleaners — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6662 Specialized Cleaners — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6663 Janitors, Caretakers and Building Superintendents — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6671 Other Occupations in Travel, Accommodation, Amusement and Recreation — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

6683 Other Elemental Service Occupations — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7411 Truck Drivers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7412 Bus Drivers and Subway and Other Transit Operators — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7414 Delivery and Courier Service Drivers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7421 Heavy Equipment Operators (Except Crane) — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7441 Residential and Commercial Installers and Servicers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7443 Automotive Mechanical Installers and Servicers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7452 Material Handlers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

7611 Construction Trades Helpers and Labourers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

8431 General Farm Workers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

8432 Nursery and Greenhouse Workers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

8612 Landscaping and Grounds Maintenance Labourers — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

9496 Painters and Coaters — Industrial — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

9617 Labourers in Food, Beverage and Tobacco Processing — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

9619 Other Labourers in Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities — Essential Skills Required – OSP Info

Welcome

martin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:32:17 +0000

Welcome to Martin Buck’s website.

You will find links to my course outlines and other relevant information at this website.

A few more resources

martin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:15:47 +0000

Here are a few more resources recommended by Wendy M at my meeting with her yesterday.

The first is a Vancouver model I had earlier recommended to my dean, wondering if we could replicate it here on the lower Island. http://esaf.accessfutures.com/

The following is a Ministry of Advanced Education paper titled Essential Skills: Focus on Aboriginal Workers. See http://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/skillsplus/docs/Critical_Skills_Aborigional.pdf

From the Métis Nation website, information on Essential Skills for Aboriginal Futures. See http://www.mnbc.ca/mhrda/esaf.asp

An Aboriginal Essential Skills Journey

martin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:04:49 +0000

Another link from Wendy M.

This resource developed by Douglas College is available for others to use. See http://www.douglas.bc.ca/__shared/assets/Essential_Skills_Participant_Workbook66634.pdf

Top 50 Entry-Level Jobs

martin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:01:33 +0000

Wendy M has been helpful, as usual, around things Essential, that is Essential Skills. She has directed me to a number of useful Essential Skills. The first is a link to a resource from Kingston Literacy called the Top 50 Entry-Level Jobs. They defined entry-level as follows:

An entry level job requires no post-secondary training but may require some job-specific training. In addition, entry level jobs may involve up to six months of on-the-job training. (See HRSDC skill levels C and D. For entry level-jobs, look for skill level 4, 5 or 6.) For example, the jobs 6621 – Gas Station Attendant and 6453 –Waiter are considered entry level.*

We used the National Occupation Classification (NOC) codes to establish our definition of entry-level worker and specifically the skill level portion of the NOC structure, or the second digit. For “entry level,” then, we looked at skill levels C and D, or skill level digits 4, 5 or 6:

Skill Level C occupations generally require completion of secondary school and some job-specific training or completion of courses directly related to the work. Skill Level D occupations usually require on-the-job training, short demonstration sessions or instruction that takes place in the work environment.

*Adapted from the NOC website tutorial at http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/noc/english/noc/2006/Tutorial.aspx#8

An examination of the numeracy skills required for each of these occupations will help inform me about what numeracy skills to focus on as I look at the new Fundamental Math curriculum.