Post-Secondary Teaching and Research Assistants
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Job description
These individuals assist university and CEGEP professors in their courses. They also help them with their research work.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
Teaching Assistants
- Prepare the material required by university or CEGEP professors to give their courses.
- Conduct seminars, discussion groups, and laboratory sessions.
- Collaborate in the preparation and administration of exams.
- Grade exams, essays, and lab reports.
Research Assistants
- Gather information from literature, surveys, and laboratory experiments.
- Compile research results and help professors analyze them.
- Contribute to writing papers or articles.
Advancement and mobility
- These individuals specialize in a field corresponding to their field of study.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $16.10
- Median
- $26.00
- Maximum
- $42.73
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
20,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 56.5% Female
- 43.5% Male
Not available.
- 56.5% Female
- 43.5% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$60,400
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 6192% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 54173% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6232% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 6192% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 54173% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6232% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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Others1% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
University studies
College
DCS in techniques de recherche et de gestion de données
Code : 384A0
Placement rate: 85.7%
14.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Enrolment in a university or college program.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Reading comprehension
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Teaching
- Oral expression
- Information processing
- Learning strategies
- Written expression
- Coordination
- Critical thought
- Result evaluation
- Service oriented
- Social perception
- Solving complex problems
- Active learning
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Near vision
- Speech recognition
- Awareness of issues
- Deductive reasoning
- Idea generation
- Inductive reasoning
- Originality
- Selective attention
- Classification
- Information organization
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Critical thinking
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Capacity to work in a team
- Rigour
- Capacity for synthesis
- Desire to upgrade one’s competencies
- Pedagogical knowledge
- Availability
- Capacity to facilitate a group
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Carry out research
- Teach or educate
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Official name of the NOC 41201
Post-secondary teaching and research assistants
Job titles
- University research assistant
- Post-secondary research assistant
- College teaching assistant
- University teaching assistant
- Graduate assistant - university
- Post-secondary teaching assistant
- College laboratory assistant
- University laboratory assistant
- Discussion group leader - post-secondary teaching assistant
- Assistants/assistantes psychologues en recherche
- Laboratory demonstrator - post-secondary teaching assistance
- Marker - post-secondary teaching assistance
- Tutor - post-secondary teaching assistant
- Laboratory supervisor - post-secondary teaching assistant
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
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