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424 careers in Hong Kong, each with what the work involves, figures for its occupation group and every way in.
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Professionals
Business, administration and related professionals
- Accountants
- Advertising and marketing professionals
- Financial analysts
- Financial and investment advisers
- Information and communications technology sales professionals
- Management and organisation analysts
- Personnel and careers professionals
- Policy administration professionals
- Public relations professionals
- Technical and medical sales professionals (excluding ICT)
- Training and staff development professionals
Healthcare professionals
- Audiologists and speech therapists
- Dentists
- Dieticians and nutritionists
- Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals
- Generalist medical practitioners
- Health professionals not elsewhere classified
- Midwifery professionals
- Nursing professionals
- Optometrists and ophthalmic opticians
- Paramedical practitioners
- Pharmacists
- Physiotherapists
- Specialist medical practitioners
- Traditional and complementary medicine professionals
- Veterinarians
Information and communications technology professionals
- Applications programmers
- Computer network professionals
- Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified
- Database designers and administrators
- Software and applications developers and analysts not elsewhere classified
- Software developers
- Systems administrators
- Systems analysts
- Web and multimedia developers
Legal, social science and cultural professionals
- Actors
- Announcers on radio, television and other media
- Archivists and curators
- Authors and related writers
- Creative and performing artists not elsewhere classified
- Dancers and choreographers
- Economists
- Film, stage and related directors and producers
- Journalists
- Judges
- Lawyers
- Legal professionals not elsewhere classified
- Librarians and related information professionals
- Musicians, singers and composers
- Philosophers, historians and political scientists
- Psychologists
- Religious professionals
- Social work and counselling professionals
- Sociologists, anthropologists and related professionals
- Translators, interpreters and other linguists
- Visual artists
Science and engineering professionals
- Biologists, botanists, zoologists and related professionals
- Building architects
- Cartographers and surveyors
- Chemical engineers
- Chemists
- Civil engineers
- Electrical engineers
- Electronics engineers
- Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
- Environmental engineers
- Environmental protection professionals
- Farming, forestry and fisheries advisers
- Geologists and geophysicists
- Graphic and multimedia designers
- Industrial and production engineers
- Landscape architects
- Mathematicians, actuaries and statisticians
- Mechanical engineers
- Meteorologists
- Mining engineers, metallurgists and related professionals
- Physicists and astronomers
- Product and garment designers
- Telecommunications engineers
- Town and traffic planners
Teaching professionals
- Early childhood educators
- Education methods specialists
- Information technology trainers
- Other arts teachers
- Other language teachers
- Other music teachers
- Primary school teachers
- Secondary education teachers
- Special needs teachers
- Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified
- University and higher education teachers
- Vocational education teachers
Managers
Administrative and commercial managers
- Advertising and public relations managers
- Business services and administration managers not elsewhere classified
- Finance managers
- Human resource managers
- Policy and planning managers
- Research and development managers
- Sales and marketing managers
Chief executives, senior officials, legislators and foreign diplomats
- Legislators
- Managing directors and chief executives
- Senior government officials
- Senior officials of special-interest organisations
Hospitality, retail and other services managers
- Hotel managers
- Restaurant managers
- Retail and wholesale trade managers
- Services managers not elsewhere classified
- Sports, recreation and cultural centre managers
Production and specialised services managers
- Aged care services managers
- Agricultural and forestry production managers
- Aquaculture and fisheries production managers
- Child care services managers
- Construction managers
- Education managers
- Financial and insurance services branch managers
- Health services managers
- Information and communications technology service managers
- Manufacturing managers
- Mining managers
- Professional services managers not elsewhere classified
- Social welfare managers
- Supply, distribution and related managers
Associate professionals
Business, administration and related associate professionals
- Accounting associate professionals
- Administrative and executive secretaries
- Business services agents not elsewhere classified
- Buyers
- Clearing and forwarding agents
- Commercial sales representatives
- Conference and event planners
- Credit and loans officers
- Customs and border inspectors
- Employment agents and contractors
- Government licensing officials
- Government social benefits officials
- Government tax and excise officials
- Insurance representatives
- Legal secretaries
- Medical secretaries
- Office supervisors
- Police inspectors and detectives
- Real estate agents and property managers
- Regulatory government associate professionals not elsewhere classified
- Securities and finance dealers and brokers
- Statistical, mathematical and related associate professionals
- Trade brokers
- Valuers and loss assessors
Healthcare associate professionals
- Ambulance workers
- Community health workers
- Dental assistants and therapists
- Dispensing opticians
- Environmental and occupational health inspectors and associates
- Health associate professionals not elsewhere classified
- Medical and dental prosthetic technicians
- Medical and pathology laboratory technicians
- Medical assistants
- Medical imaging and therapeutic equipment technicians
- Medical records and health information technicians
- Midwifery associate professionals
- Nursing associate professionals
- Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants
- Physiotherapy technicians and assistants
- Traditional and complementary medicine associate professionals
- Veterinary technicians and assistants
Information and communications technology associate professionals
- Broadcasting and audiovisual technicians
- Computer network and systems technicians
- Information and communications technology operations technicians
- Information and communications technology user support technicians
- Telecommunications engineering technicians
- Web technicians
Legal, social science, cultural and related associate professionals
- Athletes and sports players
- Chefs
- Fitness and recreation instructors and program leaders
- Gallery, museum and library technicians
- Interior designers and decorators
- Legal and related associate professionals
- Other artistic and cultural associate professionals
- Photographers
- Religious associate professionals
- Social work associate professionals
- Sports coaches, instructors and officials
Science and engineering associate professionals
- Agricultural technicians
- Air traffic controllers
- Air traffic safety electronics technicians
- Aircraft pilots and related associate professionals
- Chemical and physical science technicians
- Chemical engineering technicians
- Chemical processing plant controllers
- Civil engineering technicians
- Construction supervisors
- Draughtspersons
- Electrical engineering technicians
- Electronics engineering technicians
- Forestry technicians
- Incinerator and water treatment plant operators
- Life science technicians (excluding medical)
- Manufacturing supervisors
- Mechanical engineering technicians
- Metal production process controllers
- Mining and metallurgical technicians
- Mining supervisors
- Petroleum and natural gas refining plant operators
- Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified
- Power production plant operators
- Process control technicians not elsewhere classified
- Ships' deck officers and pilots
- Ships' engineers
Craft and related trades workers
Building and related trades workers (excluding electricians)
- Air conditioning and refrigeration mechanics
- Bricklayers and related workers
- Building frame and related trades workers not elsewhere classified
- Building structure cleaners
- Carpenters and joiners
- Concrete placers, concrete finishers and related workers
- Floor layers and tile setters
- Glaziers
- House builders
- Insulation workers
- Painters and related workers
- Plasterers
- Plumbers and pipe fitters
- Roofers
- Spray painters and varnishers
- Stonemasons, stone cutters, splitters and carvers
Electrical and electronic trades workers
- Building and related electricians
- Electrical line installers and repairers
- Electrical mechanics and fitters
- Electronics mechanics and servicers
- Information and communications technology installers and servicers
Food processing, wood working, garment and other craft and related trades workers
- Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers
- Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers
- Cabinet-makers and related workers
- Craft and related workers not elsewhere classified
- Dairy-products makers
- Food and beverage tasters and graders
- Fruit, vegetable and related preservers
- Fumigators and other pest and weed controllers
- Garment and related pattern-makers and cutters
- Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers
- Product graders and testers (excluding foods and beverages)
- Sewing, embroidery and related workers
- Shoemakers and related workers
- Shotfirers and blasters
- Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters
- Tobacco preparers and tobacco products makers
- Underwater divers
- Upholsterers and related workers
- Wood treaters
- Woodworking-machine tool setters and operators
Handicraft and printing workers
- Glass makers, cutters, grinders and finishers
- Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials
- Handicraft workers in wood, basketry and related materials
- Handicraft workers not elsewhere classified
- Jewellery and precious-metal workers
- Musical instrument makers and tuners
- Potters and related workers
- Pre-press technicians
- Precision-instrument makers and repairers
- Print finishing and binding workers
- Printers
- Sign writers, decorative painters, engravers and etchers
Metal, machinery and related trades workers
- Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers
- Aircraft engine mechanics and repairers
- Bicycle and related repairers
- Blacksmiths, hammersmiths and forging press workers
- Metal moulders and coremakers
- Metal polishers, wheel grinders and tool sharpeners
- Metal working machine tool setters and operators
- Motor vehicle mechanics and repairers
- Riggers and cable splicers
- Sheet-metal workers
- Structural-metal preparers and erectors
- Toolmakers and related workers
- Welders and flamecutters
Clerical support workers
Customer services clerks
- Bank tellers and related clerks
- Bookmakers, croupiers and related gaming workers
- Client information workers not elsewhere classified
- Contact centre information clerks
- Debt-collectors and related workers
- Enquiry clerks
- Hotel receptionists
- Pawnbrokers and money-lenders
- Receptionists (general)
- Survey and market research interviewers
- Telephone switchboard operators
- Travel consultants and clerks
General and keyboard clerks
Numerical and material recording clerks
- Accounting and bookkeeping clerks
- Payroll clerks
- Production clerks
- Statistical, finance and insurance clerks
- Stock clerks
- Transport clerks
Other clerical support workers
- Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified
- Coding, proof-reading and related clerks
- Filing and copying clerks
- Library clerks
- Mail carriers and sorting clerks
- Personnel clerks
- Scribes and related workers
Services and sales workers
Discipline and protective services workers
- Fire-fighters
- Police officers
- Prison guards
- Protective services workers not elsewhere classified
- Security guards
Personal care workers
- Child care workers
- Health care assistants
- Home-based personal care workers
- Personal care workers in health services not elsewhere classified
- Teachers' aides
Personal services workers
- Astrologers, fortune-tellers and related workers
- Bartenders
- Beauticians and related workers
- Building caretakers
- Cleaning and housekeeping supervisors in offices, hotels and other establishments
- Companions and valets
- Cooks
- Domestic housekeepers
- Driving instructors
- Hairdressers
- Personal services workers not elsewhere classified
- Pet groomers and animal care workers
- Travel attendants and travel stewards
- Travel guides
- Undertakers and embalmers
- Waiters
Salespersons and models
- Cashiers and ticket clerks
- Contact centre salespersons
- Door to door salespersons
- Fashion and other models
- Food service counter attendants
- Sales demonstrators
- Sales workers not elsewhere classified
- Service station attendants
- Shop keepers
- Shop sales assistants
- Shop supervisors
- Stall and market salespersons
Transport and other services workers
Skilled agricultural and fishery workers
Market-oriented skilled agricultural and fishery workers
- Animal producers not elsewhere classified
- Apiarists and sericulturists
- Aquaculture workers
- Deep-sea fishery workers
- Field crop and vegetable growers
- Gardeners, horticultural and nursery growers
- Inland and coastal waters fishery workers
- Livestock and dairy producers
- Mixed crop and animal producers
- Mixed crop growers
- Poultry producers
- Tree and shrub crop growers
Elementary occupations
Cleaners, helpers and related workers
- Cleaners and helpers in offices, hotels and other establishments
- Domestic cleaners and helpers
- Hand launderers and pressers
- Other cleaning workers
- Vehicle cleaners
- Window cleaners
Food preparation assistants
Labourers in mining, construction, manufacturing, transport, storage, agriculture and fishing
- Building construction labourers
- Civil engineering labourers
- Crop farm labourers
- Drivers of animal-drawn vehicles and machinery
- Fishery and aquaculture labourers
- Freight handlers
- Garden and horticultural labourers
- Hand and pedal vehicle drivers
- Hand packers
- Livestock farm labourers
- Manufacturing labourers not elsewhere classified
- Mining and quarrying labourers
- Mixed crop and livestock farm labourers
- Shelf fillers
Refuse workers and other elementary workers
- Elementary workers not elsewhere classified
- Garbage and recycling collectors
- Messengers, package deliverers and luggage porters
- Meter readers and vending-machine collectors
- Odd job persons
- Refuse sorters
- Sweepers and related labourers
Street and related sales and services workers
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Assemblers
- Assemblers not elsewhere classified
- Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
- Mechanical machinery assemblers
Drivers and mobile plant operators
- Bus and tram drivers
- Car, taxi and van drivers
- Crane, hoist and related plant operators
- Earthmoving and related plant operators
- Heavy truck and lorry drivers
- Lifting truck operators
- Locomotive engine drivers
- Mobile farm and forestry plant operators
- Motorcycle drivers
- Railway brake, signal and switch operators
- Ships' deck crews and related workers
Stationary plant and machine operators
- Bleaching, dyeing and fabric cleaning machine operators
- Cement, stone and other mineral products machine operators
- Chemical products plant and machine operators
- Fibre preparing, spinning and winding machine operators
- Food and related products machine operators
- Fur and leather preparing machine operators
- Glass and ceramics plant operators
- Laundry machine operators
- Metal finishing, plating and coating machine operators
- Metal processing plant operators
- Mineral and stone processing plant operators
- Miners and quarriers
- Packing, bottling and labelling machine operators
- Paper products machine operators
- Photographic products machine operators
- Plastic products machine operators
- Pulp and papermaking plant operators
- Rubber products machine operators
- Sewing machine operators
- Shoemaking and related machine operators
- Stationary plant and machine operators not elsewhere classified
- Steam engine and boiler operators
- Textile, fur and leather products machine operators not elsewhere classified
- Weaving and knitting machine operators
- Well drillers and borers and related workers
- Wood processing plant operators
Data: Census and Statistics Department and 2021 Population Census, Hong Kong SAR Government (figures regrouped by Peernovo), DATA.GOV.HK; job descriptions from ESCO (European Commission, CC BY 4.0) based on ISCO-08 (International Labour Organization); interest profiles from O*NET 31.0 (CC BY 4.0); AI exposure from the ILO global index (CC BY 4.0).