Occupational Profiles and Career Management Tools

Background

In 2005, the Council completed an initiative to define key job families and occupations within the upstream petroleum industry. It produced an overview of the occupations that is available in brochure style at Careers in Oil & Gas: Rich with Potential (PDF). This project provided the foundation for Occupational Profiles.

The Key Job Family Structural Pyramid (see diagram) demonstrates how industry occupations were placed into nine key job families, which were further broken down into 70 job classifications (job clusters), and below that hundreds of specific job titles were identified.

Key Job Family Structural Pyramid

The Key Job Family structural pyramid is built from the 'bottom up' in that clusters of jobs form classifications, and clusters of classifications form key job families or occupational groupings.

 

About Occupational Profiles

The Council developed 36 occupational profiles that detail everything you need to know about work, education and career paths for a specific occupation in oil and gas. The profiles are available in the Profile Library.

The Council has also created Occupational Summaries that provide a quick snapshot on work conditions, education, skills and minimum qualifications for a variety of careers in the oil and gas industry.

 

Project Results