Career Path Research Guide

CareerOneStop is the flagship career, training, and job search website for the U.S. Department of Labor. The website serves job seekers, businesses, students, and career advisors with a variety of free online tools, information and resources.

CareerOneStop's Resume Guide will help you build a resume to match your career with formatting and writing information, tips for marketing your resume online with resources like LinkedIn, and resume samples in a variety of inductries.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) can help you explore occupations, glimpse job outlook, and find wage data for where you live or work. BLS information includes detail on the education, training, and experience typically required for hundreds of occupations. Read on to discover a few of the ways you can use BLS data in your job search.

Field of degree (FOD) pages highlight data and information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau for a variety of academic fields. Each FOD page provides a glimpse of workers with the degree and shows occupations, outlook, and more for people in that major.

mySkills myFuture is an interactive tool that helps you discover new careers and connect with job postings based on your existing work experience. Simply type in the name of a job that you have already had to get started!

The O*NET Interest Profiler can help you find out what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work. Use this tool as a way to explore what kinds of careers might appeal to you.

My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. My Next Move has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person's interests and level of work experience.

Use dropdown menus to filter the list of over 800 occupations to match your desired criteria: entry-level education requirements, on-the-job training availability, projected number of new jobs, projected growth rate, and median pay.

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is developed under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) through a grant to the North Carolina Department of Commerce. The program the O*NET database, containing hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy. The information available through O*NET can be interacted both in data formats or through useful guided tools such as My Next Move, O*NET Online, and Interest Profiler

The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information for more than 300 occupational profiles covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics provides access to a broad variety of employment related data including compensation, price indexes, productivity, unemployment and much more.