profession

(noun)

An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.

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Examples of profession in the following topics:

  • Management: the meta profession

    • Tradition dictated that the graduating class was divided between those receiving learned degrees in the professions of law, medicine and ministry from those in the skill based disciplines, such as business management.
    • Each commencement season we are told by the college reports the number of graduates who have selected the professions as their occupations and the number of those who will enter business.
    • Business should be, and to some extent already is, one of the professions.
    • The three characteristics of professionalism cited by Brandeis address detail the nature of the requisite responsibility, and are the crux of why it is still controversial to call business management a profession:
    • A profession is an occupation for which the necessary preliminary training is intellectual in character, involving knowledge and to some extent learning, as distinguished from mere skill.

  • Women in Medicine

    • Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine has been significantly restricted.
    • At the beginning of the twenty-first century in industrialized nations, women have made significant gains, but have yet to achieve parity throughout the medical profession.
    • Women's participation in medical professions was limited by law and practice during the decades while medicine was professionalizing.
    • Moreover, there are skews within the medical profession.
    • At the beginning of the 21st century, women in industrialized nations have made significant gains, but have yet to achieve parity throughout the medical profession.

  • The paradox of skill

    • All professions require unique skills.
    • While demonstrated proficiency in particular skills is necessary for admission into a profession, skill mastery alone is not sufficient to define the professional.
    • Understanding this difference is the key to the classic distinction between a trade and a profession.
    • Both trades and professions require the practice and perfection of significant skills, but a trade is completely defined by its commensurate skill; a profession is not.
    • But the professions were something else entirely.

  • Preservation and Restoration

    • Preservation and restoration is a profession devoted to the conservation of cultural heritage, such as works of art, for future generations.
    • Preservation and restoration is a profession devoted to the conservation of cultural heritage, such as works of art, for future generations.
    • The activities involved in this profession include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventative conservation.

  • Avoiding Slang and Jargon

    • Jargon is the common vocabulary used by specific professions or groups of people within those professions.
    • Legal jargon, medical jargon, and police jargon are all examples of different types of jargon that exist in very different professions .
    • You can increase the usability and persuasiveness of your writing by wisely using the specialized terms of your own profession.
    • Police have their own specific jargon which may not be understood by those outside the profession.

  • The paradox of the public pledge

    • A profession is literally so called a profession because the aspirant to the office is orally sworn to specific public commitments—he/she professes publicly legal and ethical obligations unique to the vocation of lawyer, physician, counselor or priest.
    • Brandies includes both in the observation that, "A profession is an occupation which is pursued largely for others and not merely for oneself".
    • While accountants may be employed by Arthur Anderson to do the books for the Enron Corporation, they also are sworn to keep the interests of the public uncompromised (after all, we call the profession Certified Public Accountants).

  • Physicians, Nurses, and Patients

    • A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments.
    • Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life.
    • The profession combines physical science, social science, nursing theory, and technology in caring for those individuals.

  • The paradox of pay

    • Originally, the professions were too important to receive wages in the usual sense.
    • I ask, "Considering the ‘oldest profession' what had you rather be known for: doing it for money, or doing it for love?
    • " I have only one answer: professions are rightly designated as vocations.

  • Career Development: Vocation and Identity

    • Any profession, such as a doctor, lawyer, or social worker, is an example of a vocation.
    • In the broader sense, Christian vocation includes the use of one's gifts in their profession, family life, church, and civic commitments for the sake of the greater common good.

  • Professional Interest Groups

    • Professional interest groups represent the economic interests for members of various professions including doctors, engineers, and lawyers.