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Showing 97–120 of 125 published occupations · page 5 of 6
Law, compliance and justice
Supervises people serving sentences in the community, balancing enforcement of conditions against practical help to stop reoffending. The job is part case management, part report writing, and part difficult conversation.
Law, compliance and justice
Supervises people released from custody on parole or conditional release, and prepares the assessments a releasing board relies on. Reintegration support and risk management run side by side throughout the role.
Law, compliance and justice
Helps people and employers prepare immigration, visa, and citizenship applications, explaining what a program requires and assembling the evidence for it. In many countries only a licensed or registered person may charge for this advice, and the regulator is worth checking first.
Law, compliance and justice
Drafts patent applications from an inventor's technical disclosure and argues them through examination at a patent office. The role sits between engineering and law: the claims have to describe the invention precisely and survive legal challenge.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Occupational health and safety officers help an organisation identify hazards, control risk, and meet its legal duties. They inspect workplaces, investigate incidents, deliver training, and keep the documentation that shows controls are working. The role needs credibility with both front-line workers and management, since it often involves asking for work to change or stop.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Food safety technicians verify that a food or drink plant is producing safely: sampling product, checking critical control points, auditing hygiene, and keeping the records that prove it. They work to a documented food safety plan and escalate quickly when a control is out of limits. Part laboratory, part shop floor, the role depends on precise record keeping.
Natural sciences and research
Biologists study living organisms and the systems they belong to, from cells and genes up to whole populations. Much of the work is designing studies, running them carefully enough that someone else could repeat them, and writing up what the results actually support. Specialisms vary widely, so two biologists can have very little day-to-day overlap.
Natural sciences and research
Research assistants carry out the practical work of a study under the direction of a lead researcher: collecting data, running procedures, and keeping records that stand up to scrutiny. The role exists across university, hospital, government, and commercial research settings, and the subject matter varies with the project. Posts are frequently tied to the funding period of a specific study.
Natural sciences and research
Clinical research coordinators run the day-to-day operation of clinical studies at a site: recruiting and consenting participants, scheduling visits, and keeping documentation audit-ready. The role is as much about protocol discipline and paperwork as about science, because a study is only usable if it was run and recorded correctly. It sits at the point where research and patient care meet.
Natural sciences and research
Pharmacologists study how drugs act on the body and how the body handles them, from receptor-level mechanisms through to dosing in patients. The work supports drug discovery, safety assessment, and clinical use, and it is closely bound to regulatory and ethical frameworks. Roles sit in universities, pharmaceutical research, and health services.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Investigates serious or complex crimes once the initial response is over, building a case file that has to stand up in court. The work is mostly interviewing, tracing and analyzing evidence, and coordinating with forensic, analytical, and prosecution colleagues. Case files are long-running and disclosure obligations are strict.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Screens travellers and goods arriving at airports, land crossings, and marine ports, applying customs and immigration law to decide what may enter. Officers question travellers, examine documents, baggage, and cargo, and refer cases for secondary examination or enforcement. Decisions are made quickly and have to be defensible afterwards.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Carries out investigations for private clients, insurers, or law firms: tracing people, verifying claims, conducting surveillance, and checking backgrounds. Findings are delivered as written reports and sometimes as testimony, so lawful method and accurate note-taking matter more than speed. Investigators hold no police powers.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Responds to fires, vehicle collisions, medical calls, and hazardous-materials incidents as part of a crew working under an incident command structure. Between calls the day is equipment checks, drills, inspections, and public education. Medical calls make up a large share of responses in many services.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Inspects buildings against the fire code, reviews plans and life-safety systems, and follows up on orders until hazards are corrected. Some inspectors also investigate the origin and cause of fires and give evidence about what they found. The job is code interpretation and persuasion as much as inspection.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Provides emergency and urgent care outside hospital, assessing patients at scene, treating within a defined scope of practice, and transporting them where needed. Paramedics work to medical directives and give a structured handover at the receiving facility. Many calls are not life-threatening emergencies but social, mental health, or chronic care problems.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Gives pre-hospital care at a foundational scope of practice, responding to emergency calls, stabilizing patients, and transporting them to hospital. EMTs often crew an ambulance alongside a paramedic and take the lead on scene safety, lifting, and moving patients. Titles and scope for this level of practice differ considerably between jurisdictions.
Public safety, defence and emergency response
Enforces municipal rules covering parking, noise, animals, property standards, licensing, and use of public space. The role mixes complaint response with proactive patrols, and most outcomes come from explaining the rule and negotiating compliance rather than issuing tickets. Officers appear at hearings to defend the notices they write.
Retail, sales and customer experience
Customer service representatives answer questions and settle problems for customers by phone, email, chat, or across a counter. They look up account and order records, explain policy in plain language, arrange remedies such as replacements or credits, and write up what happened.
Retail, sales and customer experience
Technical customer support representatives help customers get a product or service working again. They diagnose faults over phone, chat, or a ticketing system, walk users through fixes step by step, and hand genuine defects to engineering or field service with the evidence attached.
Retail, sales and customer experience
Complaint resolution specialists take the cases front-line staff could not settle. They investigate what actually happened, weigh the customer's account against records and policy, decide on a remedy within their authority, and explain the decision in writing.
Retail, sales and customer experience
Real estate agents represent buyers or sellers in property transactions. They list and market properties, run viewings, advise on offers, and carry a deal through to closing while working under a licensed brokerage.
Retail, sales and customer experience
Real estate brokers hold a higher-level licence than agents and may operate their own brokerage. They supervise the transactions their agents write, control client money held in trust, and carry responsibility for the brokerage's compliance with real estate law.
Retail, sales and customer experience
Estheticians provide skincare treatments such as facials, exfoliation, waxing, and brow or lash services. They assess a client's skin, choose products and settings that suit it, and work within the scope their training and local rules allow.
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