| This book presents reliable and useful information about occupations in a way not available in the past. Its concept is simple: It allows you to identify major jobs of interest and then read details about those jobs and the many more-specialized jobs related to them.
This edition of the Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook combines job descriptions from three important sources by the U.S. Department of Labor:
- Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2004–2005 Edition
- Occupational Information Network (O*NET)
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
Each of these sources is widely used by professionals, students, job seekers, and many others, but until we created this book, it was most difficult to juggle information from all three sources.
- Use the Table of Contents to find one or more jobs that interest you. The Table of Contents arranges more than 270 major jobs from the Occupational Outlook Handbook into clusters of related jobs. For example, in the Management and Business and Financial Operations Occupations cluster, you will find the job “Accountants and Auditors.” Or use the indexes to find jobs alphabetically.
- Turn to the page number listed for the complete job description as presented in the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
- Following this are descriptions of related jobs from the O*NET. For the Accountants and Auditors title, you will find separate O*NET descriptions for “Accountants” and “Auditors.”
- Next are descriptions for even more specific jobs from the DOT. For Accountants and Auditors, the more-specialized DOT descriptions include Accountant; Accountant, Budget; Accountant, Cost; Accountant, Property; Accountant, Systems; Accountant, Tax; Auditor; Auditor, County or City; Auditor, Internal; Auditor, Tax; Bursar; and Director, Utility Accounts.
Too many people let their careers, training, and education “happen” almost by accident. It is wise, however, to get good information when planning your educational and career options. For example, knowing the skills required for a given job—or its training requirements, growth potential, and average earnings—is very important for helping you make decisions. The more information you have, the more likely you are to choose a satisfying, rewarding career.
We think this book will help. The Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook is one of the best resources available for occupational information. It provides a unique combination of three major career reference sources from the U.S. Department of Labor: the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), and the very latest Occupational Information Network (O*NET) data. This book, therefore, is one of the most comprehensive publications using government occupational data. With all these sources in one book, you can conveniently obtain an enormous amount of information. |
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