The Government's premier career reference book on occupations and tomorrow's job market. For more than four and a half decades, this versatile volume has proven useful to both career counselors, students, and other job seekers. Completely revised every 2 years, the Occupational Outlook Handbook is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and reliable source of career information. Useful for looking up information on particular occupations, or just browsing through possible careers, the Handbook profiles 250 occupations that in 1994 accounted for over 110 million jobs: 7 out of every 8 jobs in the United States. For each career, it describes work activities and environment, earnings, number of jobs and their location, and types of education, training, and personal qualifications needed to have the best prospects. BLS projections of employment to the year 2005 are used to assess what kind of job opportunities future entrants to each occupation should encounter.Available in paper, hard cover, and CD-ROM. Ordering information. Read the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Groups of related jobs covered in the Handbook are available as individual reprints. These reprints are especially useful for jobseekers who want to know about a single field and for counselors who need to stretch the contents of a single Handbook among many students. Ordering information.
A supplement to the Occupational Outlook Handbook provides the statistical data supporting the information presented in the Handbook. Education and training planners, career counselors, and jobseekers can compare approximately 500 occupations on factors cover as employment changes, job openings, earnings, unemployment rates, and training requirements. Ordering information.
Job Quality and Other Aspects of Projected Employment Growth
This bulletin includes highlights and details on BLS projections of labor force, economic growth, industry employment and occupational employment; industries and occupations generating the largest portion of projected job growth as well as on the quality of jobs as measured by earnings; and a discussion relating projections of jobs to changes in the composition of the labor force. Ordering information.
- This magazine includes practical, "how-to-do-it" information on choosing and getting today's and tomorrow's jobs. Articles are written in straightforward, non-technical language and cover a wide variety of career and work-related topics such as new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, and results of new studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Published four times a year, the Occupational Outlook Quarterly is available in 1- and 2-year subscriptions from the Superintendent of Documents. Reprints of some articles are also available.
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