Occupation

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A profession, may involve prolonged training and/or a formal qualification.

Parent types

Intangible

Properties

Properties for Occupation

Property	Expected type	Defined on	Description
educationRequirements	EducationalOccupationalCredential, Text	Occupation	Educational background needed for the position or Occupation.
estimatedSalary	MonetaryAmount, MonetaryAmountDistribution, Number	Occupation	An estimated salary for a job posting or occupation, based on a variety of variables including, but not limited to industry, job title, and location. Estimated salaries are often computed by outside organizations rather than the hiring organization, who may not have committed to the estimated value.
experienceRequirements	OccupationalExperienceRequirements, Text	Occupation	Description of skills and experience needed for the position or Occupation.
occupationalCategory	CategoryCode, Text	Occupation	A category describing the job, preferably using a term from a taxonomy such as BLS ONET-SOC, ISCO-08 or similar, with the property repeated for each applicable value. Ideally the taxonomy should be identified, and both the textual label and formal code for the category should be provided. Note: for historical reasons, any textual label and formal code provided as a literal may be assumed to be from ONET-SOC.
occupationLocation	AdministrativeArea	Occupation	The region/country for which this occupational description is appropriate. Note that educational requirements and qualifications can vary between jurisdictions.
qualifications	Credential, Text	Occupation	Specific qualifications required for this role or Occupation.
responsibilities	Text	Occupation	Responsibilities associated with this role or Occupation.
skills	DefinedTerm, Text	Occupation	A statement of knowledge, skill, ability, task or any other assertion expressing a competency that is either claimed by a person, an organization or desired or required to fulfill a role or to work in an occupation.

Inherited properties

Property	Expected type	Inherited from	Description
additionalType	Text, URL	Thing	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName	Text	Thing	An alias for the item.
description	Text, TextObject	Thing	A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription	Text	Thing	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier	PropertyValue, Text, URL	Thing	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image	ImageObject, URL	Thing	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage	CreativeWork, URL	Thing	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
name	Text	Thing	The name of the item.
owner	Organization, Person	Thing	A person or organization who owns this Thing.
potentialAction	Action	Thing	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs	URL	Thing	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf	CreativeWork, Event	Thing	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
url	URL	Thing	URL of the item.

Example

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Occupation",
  "name": "Example Name",
  "description": "A short description.",
  "url": "/example",
  "educationRequirements": "Example value",
  "estimatedSalary": "Example value"
}