Six Careers You've (Probably) Never Heard Of
By: Mark Toljagic
Doctor. Lawyer. Engineer. These are the careers you’ve likely heard your parents talking about ever since you took your first baby steps. Then there are the careers you hear about in pop culture: the digital animator, architect and fashion designer. Cool jobs, but how many digital game programmers does the world really need?
In reality, there are plenty of career paths that few people really give serious consideration to, mainly because they don’t even know they exist. You know what a teacher does because you’ve been in school for a whole bunch of years. But what does an event coordinator do? Or a project manager?
Toronto’s Centennial College offers more than 120 career-related programs, many of them in employment areas you may not see depicted on television. Take a look.
Event Management – Festivals, events and conferences are major draws for travel and tourism worldwide. Learn how to plan and manage a major event or conference on behalf of organizations and hotels – a sector projected to produce 121,000 new jobs by 2015.
Pharmacy Technician – Pharmacy technicians are essential and valued members of the healthcare team in Ontario. They’re able to prepare, dispense and compound medications, as well as manage inventory and interact with patients and other healthcare providers.
Business Operations – Every business has a practical side that delivers the goods or services to the customer. Students learn about planning and scheduling, purchasing, logistics, supply chain management, quality control, productivity and labour supervision. Operations are what makes or breaks the business.
Avionics Technician – Aircraft are full of electronics to keep the plane fully operational in all kinds of flight conditions. Learn to repair and maintain electronic systems related to navigation, flight instrumentation, electrical power, radar and communications.
Recreation and Leisure Services – Learn to develop healthy communities as a front-line practitioner in direct contact with recreation and leisure users. With their strong leadership skills, graduates can become recreation facilitators, advocates, referral workers, counselors, outreach workers and coaches.
Environmental Protection Technology – Learn laboratory practices in water quality testing, groundwater movement, computer-aided environmental audits and the chemistry of pollutants, all of which will give you the skills needed to analyze and remediate the urban environment.
For more details about these and other career programs, visit www.centennialcollege.ca
