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  2. Profession - Wikipedia

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    The term "profession" is a truncation of the term "liberal profession", which is, in turn, an Anglicization of the French term profession libérale.Originally borrowed by English users in the 19th century, it has been re-borrowed by international users from the late 20th, though the (upper-middle) class overtones of the term do not seem to survive re-translation: "liberal professions" are ...

  3. Occupation - Wikipedia

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    Occupation commonly refers to: Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment; Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces; Military occupation, the martial control of a territory; Occupancy, use of a building; Occupation or The Occupation may ...

  4. International Standard Classification of Occupations - Wikipedia

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    The ISCO is the basis for many national occupation classifications as well as applications in specific domains such as reporting of teaching, agricultural and healthcare workforce information. [3] The ISCO-08 revision is expected to be the standard for labour information worldwide in the coming decade, for instance as applied to incoming data ...

  5. Occupational licensing - Wikipedia

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    Occupational licensing, also called licensure, is a form of government regulation requiring a license to pursue a particular profession or vocation for compensation. It is related to occupational closure .

  6. Professional - Wikipedia

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    Doctor explains x-ray to patient. A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.

  7. Occupational prestige - Wikipedia

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    Occupational prestige results from the consensual rating of a job - based on the belief of that job's worthiness. The term prestige itself refers to the admiration and respect that a particular occupation holds in a society. Occupational prestige is prestige independent of particular individuals who occupy a job.

  8. Professional services - Wikipedia

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    Professional services are occupations in the service sector requiring special training in liberal arts and pure sciences education or professional development education. [1] Some professional services, such as architects , accountants , engineers , doctors , and lawyers require the practitioner to hold professional degrees or licenses and ...

  9. Computer (occupation) - Wikipedia

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    In fact, in the context of HBC most of the time humans are not provided with a sequence of exact steps to be executed to yield the desired result; HBC is agnostic about how humans solve the problem. This is why "outsourcing" is the term used in the definition above. The use of humans in the historical role of "human computers" for HBC is very rare.