The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.

Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, training and education requirements, earnings, and job prospects in hundreds of occupations.

Features and Benefits

    * Descriptions for about 270 major jobs in the U.S. economy
    * Updated every two years
    * For middle school through adult
    * Softcover, 700 pages

For each job, the OOH discusses the nature of the work, working conditions, job outlook, training and education needed, earnings, related occupations, and additional information sources, including Web sites. The book is packed with practical, current information, and it is invaluable for anyone doing career research, writing resumes, and preparing for interviews. Additional features:

    * job descriptions are cross-referenced with more specialized job titles in the O*NET
    * new section on How Educators, Counselors, Librarians, and Business Professionals Can Bes Use the OOH
    * brief overview of trends for major industry and occupational groups
    * organized by clusters of related jobs for easy research
    * job opportunities forecast is based on Bureau of Labor Statistics projections through 2014

Tomorrow’s Jobs:

Making informed career decisions requires reliable information about opportunities in the future. Opportunities result from the relationships between the population, labor force, and the demand for goods and services.

Population ultimately limits the size of the labor force—individuals working or looking for work—which limits the goods and services that can be produced. Demand for various goods and services is largely responsible for employment in the industries providing them. Employment opportunities, in turn, result from demand for skills needed within specific industries. Opportunities for medical assistants and other healthcare occupations, for example, have surged in response to rapid growth in demand for health services.

Examining the past and present, and projecting changes in these relationships is the foundation of the Occupational Outlook Program. This chapter presents highlights of Bureau of Labor Statistics’ projections of the labor force and occupational and industry employment that can help guide your career plans. Sources of additional information about the projections appear on the preceding page. ...

View Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-2009 Online

Ways to use the Occupational Outlook Handbook site: (1) To find out about a specific occupation or topic, use the Search box that is on every page—enter your search term in the box. (2) To find out about many occupations, browse through listings using the Occupations links that are on the right side of each page. (3) For a listing of all occupations in alphabetical order, go to the A-Z Index and select a letter.

Acknowledgments

The Bureau of Labor Statistics produced the Handbook under the general guidance and direction of Dixie Sommers, Associate Commissioner for Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, and Kristina J. Shelley, Chief, Division of Occupational Outlook, Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections. Chester C. Levine and Jon Sargent, Managers of Occupational Outlook Studies, provided planning and day-to-day direction.

Supervisors overseeing the research and preparation of ma¬terial were Douglas Braddock, Arlene Dohm, Roger J. Moncarz, and Terry Schau. Occupational analysts who contributed material were Phillip C. Bastian, Sadie Blanchard, Lauren Csorny, Tamara D. Dillon, Tom DiVincenzo, Diana Gehlhaus, Samuel L. Greenblatt, Henry T. Kasper, Jonathan W. Kelinson, William S. Lawhorn, C. Brett Lockard, Kevin M. McCarron, Gregory Niemesh, Alice Ramey, Brian Roberts, Patricia Tate, Colleen D. Teixeira, Dave Terkanian, Nicholas K. Terrell, Michael Wolf, Benjamin Wright, and Ian Wyatt.

Editorial work was provided by Olivia Crosby and Elka Torpey, Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections, and by Eugene Becker and Anna H. Hill. Editorial work also was provided by Edith Baker, Monica Gabor, and Lori Pastro under the supervision of Richard Devens, Office of Publications and Special Studies. Word processing support was provided by Wendy Davis. Computer programming support was provided by Erik A. Savisaar, Dave Terkanian, and Lynn Shniper. The cover and other art were designed by Keith Tapscott. T. Alan Lacey also contributed art.

Photographs were taken by Shawn Moore, Department of Labor Photographic Services, and Fredde Lieberman. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also wishes to express its appreciation for the cooperation and assistance of the many organizations and individuals who either contributed photographs or made their facilities available to photographers working for or under contract to the U.S. Department of Labor. Situations portrayed in the photographs may not be free of every possible safety or health hazard. Depiction of company or trade name in no way constitutes endorsement by the Department of Labor.

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