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Career Discovery · Occupation

Combat engineer

Builds, repairs, and removes battlefield infrastructure — bridges, roads, defensive positions, and obstacles — and handles demolitions and explosive hazards. Combat engineers also support domestic tasks such as flood barriers, route clearance, and disaster recovery. The trade combines construction skills with soldiering.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionPublic safety, defence and emergency response

Career Discovery · Occupation

Coast guard officer

Coordinates or carries out maritime search and rescue, marine safety, and pollution response along a coastline or major waterway. Depending on the service, the role covers watchkeeping in a coordination centre, crewing vessels, and checking compliance with marine safety rules. Coast guard structures differ a great deal between countries.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionPublic safety, defence and emergency response

Career Discovery · Occupation

By-law enforcement officer

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.

Certificate or college diplomaPublic safety, defence and emergency response

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Crime analyst

Turns police data into usable intelligence — identifying patterns across incidents, profiling problem locations, and supporting investigations and deployment decisions. Analysts write briefings and build maps, charts, and timelines rather than making arrests. Most posts are civilian roles inside a police service.

Bachelor's degreePublic safety, defence and emergency response

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Forensic identification technician

Documents and recovers physical evidence from crime scenes — photographing, measuring, lifting fingerprints, and packaging exhibits so they stay admissible. Technicians also compare prints, prepare exhibits, and explain their examination in court. Chain of custody and contamination control shape almost every step.

Certificate or college diplomaPublic safety, defence and emergency response

Career Discovery · Occupation

Court security officer

Keeps courthouses safe by screening people at entry, supervising those in custody, and maintaining order in courtrooms. Officers escort prisoners between cells, courtrooms, and transport, and respond to disturbances and medical events in the building. Much of the day is routine, punctuated by high-stakes moments.

Short course or on-the-job trainingPublic safety, defence and emergency response

Career Discovery · Occupation

Campus security officer

Provides security and first response on a school, college, or hospital campus, balancing enforcement with student and patient support. Officers patrol, respond to calls, and work closely with residence staff, student services, and local police. De-escalation and mental health awareness matter more here than in most guarding roles.

Short course or on-the-job trainingPublic safety, defence and emergency response

Career Discovery · Occupation

Industrial first aid attendant

Staffs the first aid room on an industrial, construction, or remote worksite, treating injuries and illness on site and arranging transport when someone needs a hospital. The role also covers first aid records, equipment readiness, and prevention work alongside safety staff. Remote sites can mean long solo shifts with limited backup.

Short course or on-the-job trainingPublic safety, defence and emergency response

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Special constable

Holds limited peace officer authority granted by a police service or public body for a defined setting such as transit, a campus, a hospital, or a courthouse. Duties sit between security work and full policing, and the powers attached to the appointment vary widely. The appointment is tied to the employer and the location it covers.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionPublic safety, defence and emergency response

Career Discovery · Occupation

Retail sales associate

Retail sales associates help customers find and choose products on a shop floor, answer questions about features and availability, and complete the sale. The role mixes conversation with practical floor work such as restocking, tidying displays, and processing returns.

Short course or on-the-job trainingRetail, sales and customer experience

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Retail store manager

Retail store managers run a single store: they set the schedule, lead the sales team, control stock levels, and answer to head office for how the store is trading against its targets. A large share of the job is people work — hiring, training, coaching, and settling the problems staff cannot.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionRetail, sales and customer experience

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Assistant store manager

Assistant store managers support the store manager and take charge of the store when the manager is away. They run individual shifts, supervise staff on the floor, deal with issues front-line staff escalate, and cover opening and closing routines.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionRetail, sales and customer experience

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Retail supervisor

Retail supervisors lead a team on the shop floor for the length of a shift. They allocate work, keep service moving when the store is busy, and are the first person staff turn to when a customer problem or a system fault comes up.

Short course or on-the-job trainingRetail, sales and customer experience

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Visual merchandiser

Visual merchandisers decide how a store looks: window displays, mannequin styling, fixture layout, and the in-store signage that steers shoppers through the space. They translate brand guidelines and seasonal campaigns into a plan, then build the displays physically in store.

Certificate or college diplomaRetail, sales and customer experience

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Merchandiser

Merchandisers make sure the right products sit on the shelf, in the right place, correctly priced and labelled. Field merchandisers usually travel a route of stores on behalf of a supplier or agency, setting shelves to a planogram and rebuilding promotional stands.

Short course or on-the-job trainingRetail, sales and customer experience

Career Discovery · Occupation

Stock clerk

Stock clerks receive deliveries, move goods into the stockroom, and keep the sales floor filled. The work is physical and system-driven: scanning items in, recording counts, and flagging damage or discrepancies so the inventory record stays true.

Short course or on-the-job trainingRetail, sales and customer experience

Career Discovery · Occupation

Customer service representative

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.

Short course or on-the-job trainingRetail, sales and customer experience

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Call centre agent

Call centre agents work a queue of inbound or outbound calls, following scripts or standard procedures set by the employer. Between calls they update records, and the shape of the day is set by call volumes, scheduled breaks, and quality monitoring.

Short course or on-the-job trainingRetail, sales and customer experience

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Contact centre team leader

Contact centre team leaders supervise a group of agents. They watch queues and service levels through the day, coach agents using recorded calls, and take the calls where a customer asks for a manager. The role sits between front-line agents and operations management.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionRetail, sales and customer experience

Career Discovery · Occupation

Technical customer support representative

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.

Certificate or college diplomaRetail, sales and customer experience

Career Discovery · Occupation

Complaint resolution specialist

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.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionRetail, sales and customer experience

Career Discovery · Occupation

Inside sales representative

Inside sales representatives sell from an office or from home rather than by visiting customers. They work leads and existing accounts by phone, email, and video call, prepare quotes, and move opportunities through to a confirmed order.

Short course or on-the-job trainingRetail, sales and customer experience

Career Discovery · Occupation

Outside sales representative

Outside sales representatives sell face to face, travelling a territory to meet buyers at their own premises. They demonstrate products, negotiate terms within limits their employer sets, and keep long-running accounts alive between orders.

Varies by employer or jurisdictionRetail, sales and customer experience

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