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Showing 49–72 of 222 published occupations · page 3 of 10
Community, social and public services
Home support workers visit clients in their own homes to help with personal care, meals, mobility, medication reminders, and light housekeeping. Visits are scheduled back to back across a travel route, and most of each visit is spent alone with the client. The work is physical, personal, and often the main human contact in that person's day.
Community, social and public services
Developmental service workers support people with intellectual or developmental disabilities to live, work, and take part in their communities. The role covers personal care, skills teaching, behaviour support, and advocacy, usually in group homes, day programmes, or supported employment. Consistency and detailed documentation matter, because support plans are followed by a whole team across shifts.
Community, social and public services
Funeral directors arrange and run funerals: meeting families, handling the deceased, filing legal paperwork, and coordinating everything the service requires. It is a logistics and compliance job carried out under emotional pressure and to an exact schedule, with no room to be late or wrong. Calls come at any hour and the work involves direct contact with the dead.
Education and training
Supports the learning, play, and development of infants and young children in a licensed child care or early years setting. Plans age-appropriate activities, observes how each child is progressing, and keeps families informed. The work is hands-on and carries daily responsibility for children's safety and wellbeing.
Education and training
Teaches children below school age through structured play, story, music, and early literacy and numeracy activities. Prepares a daily program, watches for readiness to move on to school, and works with families and specialists when a child needs extra support.
Education and training
Teaches students with disabilities or additional learning needs, either in a dedicated classroom or alongside mainstream teachers. Adapts curriculum material, writes and reviews individual learning plans, and coordinates with therapists, families, and school staff so the plan is actually delivered.
Education and training
Works under a teacher's direction to support students who need extra help with learning, behaviour, or personal care. Reinforces lessons with individuals and small groups and reports back to the teacher on what was observed.
Education and training
Takes over classes when the regular teacher is absent, working from plans left behind or setting suitable work on the spot. Assignments are booked day by day or in longer blocks, so the same person may cover several subjects, year levels, and schools in one week.
Education and training
Teaches singing or an instrument, or teaches music as a school subject. Sets repertoire and technical work to each learner's level, prepares students for performances or graded examinations, and often combines school, studio, and private teaching in the same week.
Education and training
Builds the digital version of a course: interactive modules, video, quizzes, and the packaging that makes them run inside a learning platform. Works from an instructional design or storyboard and handles the media production, accessibility checks, and technical testing.
Education and training
Helps adults and older students who struggle with reading, writing, or basic numeracy build those skills from wherever they currently are. Sessions are usually one-to-one or in very small groups, and progress is measured against practical tasks such as completing forms or reading workplace instructions.
Education and training
Teaches learner drivers the vehicle control, road rules, and hazard awareness needed to drive safely and pass a licensing test. Lessons take place in a dual-control vehicle and the instructor stays responsible for safety throughout. Many instructors are self-employed or work through a driving school.
Engineering and technical design
Manufacturing engineers turn a product design into a repeatable production process, choosing machines, tooling, fixtures, and assembly sequences. Much of the job is spent on the shop floor proving that a process holds tolerance shift after shift.
Engineering and technical design
Design engineers take a requirement or concept and develop it into a fully defined, manufacturable product. The role is a constant negotiation between what performs best, what can be made economically, and what the standards allow.
Engineering and technical design
Quality engineers define how conformance is measured and hold the organisation to it, through inspection plans, process controls, audits, and investigations. A lot of the work is unpopular in the moment, because it means stopping or challenging output that does not meet the standard.
Engineering and technical design
Fire protection engineers design the detection, suppression, containment, and escape provisions that keep people safe in a fire. The work carries direct life-safety consequences and is tightly bound to building codes and authority approvals.
Engineering and technical design
Marine engineers design, install, or operate the propulsion, power, and auxiliary systems of ships and offshore structures. The role divides between shore-based design and seagoing engineering watches, and the seagoing side involves extended periods away from home.
Engineering and technical design
Engineering technologists apply established engineering methods to design, testing, and project support work, usually alongside professional engineers. The role is more applied than theoretical, and the scope of what a technologist may sign off differs by jurisdiction.
Engineering and technical design
Electronics technicians build, test, calibrate, and repair electronic assemblies and instruments. Work ranges from bench fault-finding down to component level to field service on installed equipment, and it rewards methodical testing over guesswork.
Engineering and technical design
Mechanical drafters turn engineers' sketches, models, and markups into the precise drawings and data that shops and suppliers work from. Accuracy matters more than speed here, because a missed dimension or wrong tolerance is discovered downstream in metal.
Finance, accounting and insurance
Bookkeepers keep the day-to-day financial record of a business accurate and up to date, so that accounts, tax filings, and decisions rest on something reliable. The work is detail-heavy and cyclical, and in small organisations it often stretches across invoicing, payments, and payroll support.
Finance, accounting and insurance
Accounts payable clerks make sure what an organisation owes its suppliers is correct, approved, and paid on the right terms. The role is procedural and deadline-driven, and it involves a steady stream of queries from suppliers and internal budget holders.
Finance, accounting and insurance
Payroll administrators make sure people are paid the right amount, on time, with the correct deductions and records behind it. The role runs on a fixed cycle that cannot slip, and it carries real consequences when something is wrong, so accuracy and confidentiality are central.
Finance, accounting and insurance
Bank tellers handle everyday transactions at a branch counter and are usually the first person a customer speaks to. The work is fast, procedural, and closely controlled, because every transaction has to balance and identity and authorisation checks are not optional.
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