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WEEK 6
TOPIC: CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN COMMERCE
CONTENT:
- Types of opportunities
- Career opportunities
- Requirements for different careers
Sub-Topic 1: Meaning of Career
Career could be described as a chosen profession or job which someone does for a long period of their life and in which they hope to gain achievement.
Types of Occupations
Occupation can broadly be classified into three divisions, namely; industry, commerce and service. Industrial occupations
These consist of all those occupations that are free gifts of nature, changing them into finished goods and assembling the finished goods into forms usable to man.
There are three branches of industrial occupation, namely extractive occupations.
- Extractive occupation explores and exploits natural resources and free gifts of nature from land and sea e.g., agriculture, mining, fishing, quarrying etc.
- Manufacturing occupations: They are concerned with the processing and transforming raw materials into finished products e.g., textile,
- Constructive occupation: They are involved in all activities of assembling of goods manufactured into usable forms e.g., Bricklayers, road building, bridge construction etc.
Commercial Occupations
This is the process of buying, selling and distribution of goods and services. It includes trade and aids to trade.
Service Occupations
These are occupations that render services to the people. The people for the services directly or indirectly.
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