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Career Diversity

Most jobs are invisible from school

The range of work that exists, most of which nobody mentions.

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Ask a class of thirteen-year-olds to name jobs and you will get about twenty answers. India's official list of occupations runs to several thousand entries. Doctor, engineer and lawyer are visible because you meet them. Actuary, logistics planner, sound engineer and soil scientist are not. You choose from the list you have seen.

  • Go looking on purpose. Ask three working adults what they actually do all day, and you will learn more about work than a careers day will teach you.
  • Nobody wants a job they have never heard of. Widening the list early costs nothing and rules nothing out.
SourceNational Classification of Occupations, Government of India
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