Father's Occupation

On Thursday I worked very closely with several students who are applying for scholarships to a special English language program. I looked over their applications to make sure they had filled out the forms correctly and it turned out it was a good thing I did because one student had written the following:

Father's Name: Ahmad
Mother's Name: Fatima
Father's Occupation: Israel

I suppose it makes sense that my student would know that definition of "occupation" better than the job one...