What are the emerging occupations and industries?
Emerging occupations are those that require knowledge, skills and abilities not defined by occupations in current occupational coding structures (such as the National Occupational Classification1 system in Canada). Basically, these are new occupations in the workforce – new titles with new skills. Over time, evolving occupations become incorporated in the occupational coding system and become official occupations. Some examples of relatively new occupations that have become part of the occupational coding system in Canada are webmaster, multimedia specialist, computer security specialist, global positioning systems technician, direct broadcast satellite technician, avionics technician, and electronic commerce specialist. In addition to adding new occupations from time to time, the occupational coding system also has to be adjusted periodically to take account of changes in the nature of existing occupations. Many new occupations, and some more traditional occupations as well, are evolv
