Jobs, Careers and Occupations

World of Jobs, Careers and Occupations

Finding understandable information about the entire world of jobs, careers, occupations, work, industries and how it is organized can be difficult for inexperienced jobs seekers.

The National Occupational Classification (NOC) systems continue to be the authoritative resource on occupational information. However, NOC contains the classification structure and descriptions of 520 occupational unit groups and includes over 30,000 occupational titles.

Inexperienced jobs seekers have difficulty to find and understand the jobs requirements found throughout labor market and make informed career decisions.

The purpose of this web site is to help you investigate occupations by providing the simplified and useful information about the world of work, industries, occupations and jobs in understandable easy system.

Out of over 30,000 occupational titles, the JobsMap.com provides descriptions of popular jobs, occupations and industries.

Such an information is particularly important to young and inexperienced jobs seekers entering a job market after completion of a school, college or university.

The ways that we go about searching for jobs have changed!

The telephones, voice mail, fax machines, computers and the Internet have given us new ways to proactively find jobs.

It used to be that you could call a few recruiters, send out some resumes and look for employment ads in your Saturday newspaper.

Now - not any more!

Applying for a job has changed dramatically over the past few years, thanks to mass CV and resume distribution services, online recruitment databases and opportunities to email job search applications. Enhanced technologies have streamlined the job searching process as never before. Job candidates can now have their job application in front of a recruiter virtually in seconds after a fruitful telephone discussion.

Online job search resources are expanding quickly. With the high level of Internet usage, the Internet is now the best place to access employment information. However, it is always best to use as many different job search sources as possible to find open positions. This includes national, regional, local, government, college, university and company websites.

In effective job search, you should complement online job search by methods that are more traditional because jobs are advertised in different ways and some jobs are not advertised in traditional forms at all.

More than half of all jobs are not advertised and are filled through referrals or networking. We refer to this as the "hidden job market" and it is a very important aspect in the job search process.

Quite often, it is not what you know but whom you know

A common way to find a job is through recommendations of friends, relatives and colleagues. This type of interpersonal recommendation is generally difficult for inexperienced jobs seekers to access, but they can get around it by joining one of many networking groups.

Temporary employment agencies are present in major cities and are available on the Internet. An applicant who already has a specific idea of where s/he would like to work can apply to these companies directly.

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