Jobs you can try
Read what each job is like, then try one situation from it. 29 jobs so far.
Health
Care, wellbeing and helping people stay independent.
Carer
Carers help people manage daily life at home or in a care setting when illness, disability or age makes that hard on their own.
Children's nurse
Children's nurses look after patients from newborn to late teens, and the job differs from adult nursing in one basic way: the patient often cannot tell you what is wrong, and the family is part of the treatment.
Dietitian
Dietitians treat medical problems with food and feeding.
Health play specialist
Health play specialists use play to get children through hospital.
Healthcare assistant
Healthcare assistants work alongside nurses on wards, in clinics and in people's homes.
Occupational therapist
Occupational therapists work on the everyday things a person can no longer manage: getting out of bed, cooking, holding down a job, sitting through a school day.
Paramedic
Paramedics go to whatever comes through on the radio, which is far more often an older person on the floor at four in the morning than a crash on a dual carriageway.
Personal trainer
Personal trainers plan and run exercise sessions for individuals and small groups, then adjust the plan as the client changes.
Therapist
Therapists work with people on difficulties they cannot solve alone: anxiety, low mood, loss, trauma, relationships.
Education
Helping people learn, grow and get unstuck.
Educational psychologist
An educational psychologist works out what is getting in the way of a child learning, and what the adults around them could do differently.
Primary school teacher
A primary teacher takes one class for a whole year and teaches them everything: reading, maths, science, history, the lot.
Teaching assistant
Teaching assistants work in classrooms alongside a teacher, usually with the pupils who need the most help to keep up.
Communication and Media
Finding things out and telling the story well.
Copy editor
A copy editor is the last person to read a text properly before a stranger does.
Editorial assistant
An editorial assistant is the person who keeps a list of books or articles moving while the editors decide what to publish.
Graphic designer
Graphic designers solve somebody else's communication problem with type, image and layout.
Journalist
Journalists find out what happened, check it stands up and publish it in a form people will actually read, watch or listen to.
Marketing executive
A marketing executive decides what gets said about a product, who hears it and where, then finds out whether any of it worked.
Business
Deals, decisions and working with people commercially.
Business development manager
Business development managers find the next customer before the current ones run out.
Compliance officer
Compliance officers make sure an organisation does what the law and its regulator require, and can prove afterwards that it did.
Event manager
Event managers make something happen at a fixed time in a real building, in front of people who paid to be there.
HR officer
HR officers look after the rules governing how an organisation treats the people who work for it, and they are usually the first person told when something has gone wrong.
Procurement manager
Procurement managers buy everything an organisation needs but does not make itself, from raw materials and software licences to agency staff and cleaning.
Product manager
Product managers decide what a team builds next and, more often, what it does not.
Recruitment consultant
Recruitment consultants match people to jobs, and get paid by the employer when a placement sticks.
Public and Community Services
Supporting people and communities within clear responsibilities.
Firefighter
Most of a firefighter's year is not spent at fires.
Paralegal
Paralegals do legal work without being the lawyer on the file.
Police officer
Police officers get sent when something has gone wrong and nobody else can sort it.
Probation officer
Probation officers supervise people serving sentences in the community or released from prison.
Social worker
Social workers carry legal responsibility for decisions about people's safety, usually children who may be at risk or adults who can no longer manage on their own.
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Make the decisions, write the line, or handle the conversation the job calls for.