Link profession to subject and tools?
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It would be nice if there was a way to link professions to their subjects, tools, and any other trade specific references. This is especially relevant to fields of study because they are sometimes mistyped as professions and there is no way to establish a link between the two. Similarly, there is currently no way to link musicial professions (e.g., violinist) and their instruments (e.g., violin). I'm not sure if it would be better to add a "Professional subject" bucket property or multiple specific properties for "Field of study", "Tools used in this profession", etc.
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I think this is a really good idea and something that could help clear up some of the confusion about what is and isn't a profession. I've been experimenting with an alternate model for Professions and Job Titles in my personal domain that currently captures your first requirement. I'm not sure how best to model the second requirement though.
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That's not a bad idea, narphorium, but what are the professions associated with "Intern", "Administrator", or "General manager"?
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Also, "Sports" is more of an industry than a profession in my mind. In addition to athletes and coachs, you've got sports marketeers and sports therapists who probably consider their professions to be "marketing" and "physical (or psycho) therapy," respectively, rather than "sports."
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Part of the reason why these topics are so difficult to model is because there is a lot of overlap between Industries, Professions, Job Titles, Areas of Study, etc.
For example you could say that ESPN is a company that is part of the "Sports" Industry, "Physiotherapist" is a Job Title that is part of the "Sports" Profession and "Kinesiology" is a Area of Study that is part of the "Sports" Area of Study.
As far as I can tell, the only major difference between an industry, a profession and an area of study are the types of topics that they link to.
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The schema looks good so far, I filled in some more things for engineering and job titles of engineers - seems to work well.
Linking to the industry would also be useful - for example many structural engineers may only ever work in one particular industry - for example: Bridge design as opposed to Residential property development or Oil Rig design. This was sort of implied by the company for which the person worked for, but failed for multi-disciplinary, multi-sector companies.
With regards to skud's issue: these job titles can be linked to multiple professions. It would be good to have a way to link the employee to a job title, to the profession and to the industry (a CVT?). Thus a John Hancock, whose job title is intern can be linked to the profession, e.g. structural engineering, and the industry, e.g. Petrochemical and also the company he worked for and the dates he held this job title.
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Thanks for the help Iain. It might be possible to link Job Titles to Industries by co-typing certain professions as industries but I'm not sure if that will work in all cases. I'll have to try to find some more difficult use cases to model.
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