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UNIT GROUP 2724 SOCIAL PROFESSIONALS

SOCIAL PROFESSIONALS research and study human behaviour, society and institutions from current and historical perspectives, and verbally render spoken statements, and transcribe text and recorded spoken material from one language into another.

Indicative Skill Level:
In Australia and New Zealand:

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Tasks Include:
• assembling historical data by consulting sources of information such as historical indexes and catalogues, archives, court records, diaries, newspaper files and other materials
• organising, authenticating, evaluating and interpreting historical, political, sociological, anthropological and linguistic data
• undertaking historical and cultural research into human activity, and preparing and presenting research findings
• providing simultaneous and consecutive verbal or signed renditions of speeches into another language
• rendering the meaning and feeling of what is said and signed into another language in the appropriate register and style in a range of settings such as courts, hospitals, schools, workplaces and conferences
• studying original texts and transcripts of recorded spoken material to comprehend subject matter and translating them into another language
• rendering the meaning and feeling of written material, such as literary, legal, technical and scientific texts, into another language in the appropriate register and style, so that it will read as an original piece rather than as a translation

Occupations:
272411 Historian
272412 Interpreter
272413 Translator
272499 Social Professionals nec

Researches the history of human activity and prepares accounts of findings.

Skill Level: 1

Specialisations:

Art Historian
Cultural Historian
Economic Historian
Geographical Historian

Transfers a spoken or signed language into another spoken or signed language, usually within a limited time frame in the presence of the participants requiring the translation.

Skill Level: 1

Transfers a source text from one language into another, usually within an extended time frame to allow for corrections and modifications and without the presence of the participants requiring the translation.

Skill Level: 1

This occupation group covers Social Professionals not elsewhere classified.

Skill Level: 1

Occupations in this group include:

Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Criminologist
Ethnographer
Geographer
Heritage Consultant
Linguist
Parole Board Member
Political Scientist
Prehistorian
Sociologist
Transport Analyst