Future of work
A curated resource of recent research on trends shaping Canada's labour market.
This report outlines the development and evaluation of a new process for identifying related occupations with the O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy. Previously, related occupations information was not available for all O*NET occupations.
In this report, the initial approach for identifying related occupations is described, based on the similarity of work performed — in other words, the tasks and activities associated with an occupation.
Upon evaluation, however, the researchers decided to include additional information, resulting in a final occupational relatedness composite indicator using task and detailed work activity-based similarity, knowledge importance similarity and alternate title similarity — based on three elements: what people in occupations do, what they know and what they are called.
The ability to discover and review related occupations is central to job search and career exploration and this research is meant to support that exploration as well as labour research, workforce development and human resources.