Accurate occupational and labor market information
can help you to make an informed career decision.
America's Career Kit - This is the best the US Department of Labor has
to offer the job seeker and offers a one-stop World Wide Web based system. It has comprehensive information to assist in career
exploration, salary and labor market research, education planning, and job
searches.
America's Career Kit consists of four components:
- America's
Career Information Network - is an Internet-based World Wide Web
occupational information system that provides the following: occupational
requirements, labor market and industry trends at the national/state/local
levels, wage and salary, education and training, an employer database, and more.
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America's
Learning Exchange - is an Internet-based World Wide Web conduit for
information about education and training information.
- America's
Job Bank - is the largest electronic listing of jobs in the world with
as many as 1,00,000 job postings.
-
America's Talent Bank - is a nationwide
database of electronic resumes that can be searched by employers.
Occupational
Information Network Resource Center (O*Net)
- The US DOL updated and replaced the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
with O*NET, the Occupational Information Network. O*NET is a database of 1,100+
occupations and includes information for each occupation's knowledge, skills,
abilities, interests, work values. instruction programs, generalized work
activities, occupation-specific tasks, employment outlook, and annual earnings.
Best of all, O*NET's entire database and viewer can be downloaded for free
through the O*NET web site or US
Government Printing Office.
Bureau
of Labor Statistics - Office of Employment Projections - Extensive data in
downloadable files relating to employment outlook.
CareerZone - Developed by the NYS Department of Labor utilizing the O*NET
database, job seekers can get job descriptions, educational and skill
requirements, and current wage and labor market projections for 1100+
occupations.
New York State Department of Labor -
Business Directory - Search for employers in your area of the state by
occupational title.
New York State Department of Labor -
Labor Market Information - Review labor market information for each of the
regions in NYS.
New York State Department of Labor -
Licensed Occupations in NYS - learn about the licensing and certification
requirements for all occupations regulated by New York State.
New York State Department of
Labor -
Workforce Development Suite (WDSuite Version 8.0) - download and install
this free. Then download and search all job postings with the NYS Job Service at
your leisure.
US
Department of Labor -
Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) - The US Department of Labor's
original dictionary of occupational titles describes 12,140 job titles and also
provides information regarding education requirements,
US Department of
Labor / Bureau of Labor Statistics -
Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) -
The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program produces
employment and wage estimates for over 700 occupations. These are estimates of
the number of people employed in certain occupations, and estimates of the wages
paid to them. Self-employed persons are not included in the estimates. These
estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual States, and
for metropolitan areas; national occupational estimates for specific industries
are also available
US Department of
Labor / Bureau of Labor Statistics -
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2002 - 2003
Edition (OOH)- the Bureau of Labor Statistics now publishes this reference resource on the
web. The OOH provides detailed information (including the nature of the work,
working conditions, employment, training/other qualifications & advancement,
job outlook, earnings, related occupations, and sources of additional information)
for 450+ occupations
US Department of Labor -
Bureau of Labor Statistics -
Occupational Outlook Quarterly (OOQ) - A quarterly publication of the US Department of Labor:
Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Occupational Outlook Quarterly is a
magazine with current government data relevant to job seekers, highlights of
interesting occupations, and other information sometimes obscure statistics. It
has not opened its web site but has announced that it will within the next few
months.
JobProfiles
- Job descriptions written by people who do the job they are describing.
Princeton
Review's Career Center - learn about an occupation's salary, career
progression, and more.
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