Competencies Interpretive Guide - Museum in the Cape Breton Region

Find out what competencies you typically need to work as an interpretive guide - museum in Canada. These skills are applicable to all Technical occupations related to museums and art galleries (NOC 53100).

Skills Help - Skills

  • Taxidermists
    Proficiency or complexity level
    Instructing 3 - Moderate Level
    Monitoring 3 - Moderate Level
    Management of Material Resources 3 - Moderate Level
    Quality Control Testing 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Active Listening 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Social Perceptiveness 3 - Moderate Level
    Learning and Teaching Strategies 3 - Moderate Level
    Systems Analysis 3 - Moderate Level
    Coordinating 2 - Low Level
  • Conservation and restoration technicians
    Proficiency or complexity level
    Instructing 3 - Moderate Level
    Management of Material Resources 3 - Moderate Level
    Quality Control Testing 3 - Moderate Level
    Reading Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Active Listening 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Expression 3 - Moderate Level
    Evaluation 3 - Moderate Level
    Learning and Teaching Strategies 3 - Moderate Level
    Systems Analysis 3 - Moderate Level
  • Preparators and picture framers
    Proficiency or complexity level
    Instructing 3 - Moderate Level
    Monitoring 3 - Moderate Level
    Management of Material Resources 3 - Moderate Level
    Quality Control Testing 3 - Moderate Level
    Product Design 3 - Moderate Level
    Reading Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Active Listening 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Expression 3 - Moderate Level
    Evaluation 3 - Moderate Level
  • Museum interpreters
    Proficiency or complexity level
    Oral Communication: Oral Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Expression 3 - Moderate Level
    Social Perceptiveness 3 - Moderate Level
    Coordinating 2 - Low Level
    Instructing 2 - Low Level
    Monitoring 2 - Low Level
    Time Management 2 - Low Level
    Reading Comprehension 2 - Low Level
    Oral Communication: Active Listening 2 - Low Level
    Persuading 2 - Low Level
  • Curatorial assistants, museum extension officers, museology technicians and museum registrars and cataloguers
    Proficiency or complexity level
    Management of Material Resources 3 - Moderate Level
    Quality Control Testing 3 - Moderate Level
    Reading Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Active Listening 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Comprehension 3 - Moderate Level
    Oral Communication: Oral Expression 3 - Moderate Level
    Social Perceptiveness 3 - Moderate Level
    Evaluation 3 - Moderate Level
    Learning and Teaching Strategies 3 - Moderate Level
    Systems Analysis 3 - Moderate Level

Skills

Skills are capabilities that you develop over time. Different jobs require different skills. You will need them to do a good job in your roles, tasks, and duties.

Personal Attributes Help - Personal Attributes

  • Taxidermists
    Importance
    Independence 4 - Highly important
    Adaptability 4 - Highly important
    Attention to Detail 4 - Highly important
    Active Learning 3 - Important
    Innovativeness 3 - Important
    Creativity 3 - Important
    Social Orientation 3 - Important
    Stress Tolerance 3 - Important
    Leadership 3 - Important
    Concern for Others 3 - Important
  • Conservation and restoration technicians
    Importance
    Attention to Detail 5 - Extremely important
    Stress Tolerance 4 - Highly important
    Collaboration 4 - Highly important
    Adaptability 4 - Highly important
    Analytical Thinking 4 - Highly important
    Active Learning 3 - Important
    Innovativeness 3 - Important
    Creativity 3 - Important
    Social Orientation 3 - Important
    Independence 3 - Important
  • Preparators and picture framers
    Importance
    Innovativeness 4 - Highly important
    Independence 4 - Highly important
    Leadership 4 - Highly important
    Collaboration 4 - Highly important
    Adaptability 4 - Highly important
    Attention to Detail 4 - Highly important
    Active Learning 3 - Important
    Creativity 3 - Important
    Social Orientation 3 - Important
    Stress Tolerance 3 - Important
  • Museum interpreters
    Importance
    Social Orientation 4 - Highly important
    Independence 4 - Highly important
    Leadership 4 - Highly important
    Adaptability 4 - Highly important
    Attention to Detail 4 - Highly important
    Service Orientation 3 - Important
    Concern for Others 3 - Important
    Collaboration 3 - Important
    Active Learning 2 - Somewhat important
    Innovativeness 2 - Somewhat important
  • Curatorial assistants, museum extension officers, museology technicians and museum registrars and cataloguers
    Importance
    Innovativeness 4 - Highly important
    Independence 4 - Highly important
    Collaboration 4 - Highly important
    Adaptability 4 - Highly important
    Attention to Detail 4 - Highly important
    Active Learning 3 - Important
    Creativity 3 - Important
    Social Orientation 3 - Important
    Stress Tolerance 3 - Important
    Leadership 3 - Important

Personal Attributes

Personal attributes are the traits that you are born with. You can develop them through your social context and personal experiences. Different jobs require different personal attributes. Personal attributes are important at work because they influence how you are, and how you do things.

Interest Help - Interest

Realistic jobs

Realistic jobs are all about handling objects, tools, machines, or animals in a standard way. Many of these jobs don’t involve a lot of paperwork or teamwork.

Investigative jobs

Investigative jobs are all about studying things in an organized or creative way. These things can be physical, natural, or cultural. People in those jobs must think a lot, work with ideas, search for facts and solve problems.

Artistic jobs

Artistic jobs are all about expressing yourself in a creative way to make visual, performing, written, or applied art. They often involve working with forms, designs and patterns. Most of the time, people in those jobs don’t have to follow clear rules.

Social jobs

Social jobs are all about working with people. This often involves interacting with others to help, care, teach, or inform them.

Enterprising jobs

Enterprising jobs are all about taking action to achieve goals for a group or for yourself. This often involves starting and completing projects. People in those jobs often have to influence, lead and mobilize others. They sometimes also have to take risks and decisions or deal with business.

Conventional jobs

Conventional jobs are all about following procedures and routines. This may involve tasks like keeping records, filing paperwork and copying documents. It may also involve working with data to organize and process it in a planned way. People in those jobs often have to report to a clear chain of command. They tend to focus more on data and details than ideas.

Interest

Interests reflect your preferences for work environments and outcomes. Different jobs require different interests.

Knowledge Help - Knowledge

  • Taxidermists
    Knowledge level
    Biology 2 - Intermediate Level
    Chemistry 1 - Basic Level
    Logistics 1 - Basic Level
    Library, Conservation, and Heritage 1 - Basic Level
    Arts 1 - Basic Level
    Clerical 1 - Basic Level
    Sale and Marketing 1 - Basic Level
    Client Service 1 - Basic Level
    Languages 1 - Basic Level
    Mathematics 1 - Basic Level
  • Conservation and restoration technicians
    Knowledge level
    Library, Conservation, and Heritage 3 - Advanced Level
    Chemistry 1 - Basic Level
    Performance Measurement 1 - Basic Level
    Arts 1 - Basic Level
    Business Management 1 - Basic Level
    Clerical 1 - Basic Level
    Languages 1 - Basic Level
    Mathematics 1 - Basic Level
  • Preparators and picture framers
    Knowledge level
    Library, Conservation, and Heritage 2 - Intermediate Level
    Arts 1 - Basic Level
    Languages 1 - Basic Level
    Mathematics 1 - Basic Level
  • Museum interpreters
    Knowledge level
    Library, Conservation, and Heritage 3 - Advanced Level
    Arts 3 - Advanced Level
    Languages 2 - Intermediate Level
    Humanities 2 - Intermediate Level
    Client Service 2 - Intermediate Level
    Communications and Media 2 - Intermediate Level
    Mathematics 1 - Basic Level
  • Curatorial assistants, museum extension officers, museology technicians and museum registrars and cataloguers
    Knowledge level
    Library, Conservation, and Heritage 3 - Advanced Level
    Logistics 2 - Intermediate Level
    Humanities 2 - Intermediate Level
    Arts 2 - Intermediate Level
    Clerical 2 - Intermediate Level
    Languages 2 - Intermediate Level
    Performance Measurement 1 - Basic Level
    Business Management 1 - Basic Level
    Communications and Media 1 - Basic Level
    Mathematics 1 - Basic Level

Knowledge

Knowledge refers to the understanding of different theories and practices. Different jobs require different knowledge. You need specific knowledge to do tasks and activities in a specific field.

Source Occupational and Skills Information System

Labour Market Information Survey
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