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Current Publications
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
 The Government's premier career reference book on occupations
and tomorrow's job market. For more than 50 years,
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 discusses hundreds of occupations
that in 2002 accounted for about 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 2012 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 and price information.
Read the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Occupational Outlook Handbook Reprints
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.
- Career Guide to Industries
As a companion publication to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, the
Career Guide discusses careers from an industry perspective. The Career Guide
highlights some occupations not covered by the Handbook, and discusses the nature of
the work, job qualifications and advancement opportunities, job outlook, and earnings for 42
diverse industries, which account for 3 out of every 4 wage and salary jobs in the Nation. Ordering and price information.
Read the Career Guide to Industries
- Occupational Projections and Training Data (OPTD)
This statistical and research supplement to the 2004-05 Occupational Outlook Handbook presents detailed, comprehensive statistics
used in preparing the Handbook. It also discusses how the data are prepared and presents new research—information that
is valuable to training officials, education planners, vocational and employment counselors, jobseekers, and others interested in occupational
information. This edition of the supplement is the 17th in a series dating back to 1971.Ordering and price information.
Read Occupational Projections and Training Data
- This magazine includes practical, "how-to" 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.
Feedback to the OOQ.
- Other Employment Projections print material
Last Modified Date: June 09, 2004
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