Professions

The professions below list 160 of the most common professions. This list is also available online in Spanish (profesiones), UK English (occupations), German (berufe), French (métiers), Italian (professioni), Polish (zawodów) and Dutch (beroepen).

Description of professions

Each profession is described in term of tasks. These tasks are presented in the exact order in which they normally would have to be performed.

• profession accountant (unqualified)
• profession administrative services department manager
• profession agricultural advisor
• profession air-conditioning installer or mechanic
• profession aircraft service technician
• profession ambulance driver (non paramedic)
• profession animal carer (not in farms)
• profession arable farm manager, field crop or vegetable
• profession arable farmer, field crop or vegetable
• profession architect
• profession asbestos removal worker
• profession assembler
• profession assembly team leader
• profession bank clerk (back-office)
• profession beauty therapist
• profession beverage production process controller
• profession boring machine operator
• profession bricklayer
• profession butcher
• profession car mechanic
• profession carpenter
• profession charge nurse
• profession check-out operator
• profession child care services manager
• profession child-carer
• profession civil engineering technician
• profession cleaning supervisor
• profession climatologist
• profession cloak room attendant
• profession cnc operator
• profession community health worker
• profession company director, 10-50 employees
• profession confectionery maker
• profession construction operative
• profession cooling or freezing installer or mechanic
• profession database designer
• profession dental hygienist
• profession dental prosthesis technician
• profession department store manager
• profession dietician
• profession display designer
• profession domestic housekeeper
• profession education advisor
• profession electrical engineer (professional)
• profession electrical mechanic or fitter
• profession engineering maintenance supervisor
• profession estate agent
• profession executive secretary
• profession felt roofer
• profession filing clerk
• profession financial clerk
• profession financial services manager
• profession fire fighter
• profession first line supervisor beverages workers
• profession first line supervisor of cleaning workers
• profession flight attendant
• profession floral arranger
• profession food scientist
• profession garage supervisor
• profession gardener, all other
• profession general practitioner
• profession hairdresser
• profession head groundsman
• profession horse riding instructor
• profession hospital nurse
• profession hotel manager
• profession house painter
• profession hr manager
• profession it applications programmer
• profession it systems administrator
• profession journalist
• profession judge
• profession kitchen assistant
• profession lathe setter-operator
• profession lawyer
• profession legal secretary
• profession local police officer
• profession logistics manager
• profession machine tool operator
• profession manager, all other health services
• profession meat processing operator
• profession mechanical engineering technician
• profession medical laboratory technician
• profession medical radiography equipment operator
• profession metal moulder
• profession metal production process operator
• profession meteorologist
• profession midwifery professional
• profession mortgage clerk
• profession musical instrument maker
• profession non-commissioned officer armed forces
• profession nursery school teacher
• profession nursing aid
• profession ophthalmic optician
• profession payroll clerk
• profession personal carer in an institution for the elderly
• profession personal carer in an institution for the handicapped
• profession personal carer in private homes
• profession personnel clerk
• profession pest controller
• profession physician assistant
• profession pipe fitter
• profession plant maintenance mechanic
• profession plumber
• profession police inspector
• profession policy advisor
• profession post secondary education teacher
• profession post sorting or distributing clerk
• profession power plant operator
• profession primary school head
• profession primary school teacher
• profession printing machine operator
• profession psychologist
• profession quality inspector, all other products
• profession receptionist
• profession restaurant cook
• profession road paviour
• profession roofer
• profession sailor
• profession sales assistant, all other
• profession sales or marketing manager
• profession sales representative
• profession sales support clerk
• profession seaman (armed forces)
• profession secondary school manager
• profession secondary school teacher
• profession secretary
• profession security guard
• profession sheet metal worker
• profession ship mechanic
• profession shoe repairer, leather repairer
• profession socialphotographer
• profession soldier
• profession speech therapist
• profession steel fixer
• profession stockman
• profession structural engineer
• profession surgeon
• profession surgical footwear maker
• profession swimming instructor
• profession tailor, seamstress
• profession tax inspector
• profession taxi driver
• profession tile layer
• profession transport clerk
• profession travel agency clerk
• profession truck driver long distances
• profession university professor
• profession university researcher
• profession veterinary practitioner
• profession vocational education teacher
• profession waiting staff
• profession web developer
• profession welder, all other
• profession wood processing plant operator