Top 300 Careers

Explore hundreds of careers, assess your best career fit, and land a job fast with this extensive, authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything they need to research careers; learn about pay, outlook, education, and skills needed for about 300 jobs; match their personal skills to the jobs; and take seven steps to land a good job in less time. This book provides thorough, current, and interesting descriptions for all major jobs, covering about 90 percent of the workforce. A special book-within-a-book section by career and job search author Michael Farr describes the seven steps that cut job search time in half and includes sample resumes. An assessment matches your personal skills with the characteristics of the occupations described in the book.

Statistics indicate that most working Americans are not in the occupations that suit them best, suggesting that one of the major challenges people face in their work life is choosing the right-fit career. As the lead title in JIST#x19;s Top Careers series, this book empowers readers to conquer career indecision. Readers will explore hundreds of jobs, assess their best career fit, and learn how to find good jobs quickly. Top 300 Careers is based on current labor marketing information, making it the perfect go-to resource for students, job seekers, and anyone doing career research. This book provides thorough, current, and interesting descriptions for all major jobs#x14;covering more than 90 percent of the workforce. Readers will learn about salaries, future growth, outlook, education, skills required, and more for nearly 300 jobs. Plus, an assessment matches readers#x19; personal skills to these jobs. A special book-within-a-book section describes the seven steps that cut job search time in half and includes sample resumes.

Profiles three hundred jobs that employ approximately 90 percent of the U.S. workforce, covering requirements, working conditions, the nature of the work, advancement, job outlook, earnings, and related occupations and listing further resources.

Based on extensive market research from the U.S. Department of Labor, this classic job information resource offers easy-to-read descriptions regarding job skills, education requirements, advancement opportunities, and salary data. Also contains a special section on growth projections for the 500 largest jobs through the year 2005.

With this updated volume, readers discover the 300 jobs with the best pay, fastest growth, and most openings, no four-year degree required. The author has taken massive data from the US Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and other sources and turned it into a useful, interesting resource for workers who want good jobs and career advancement without four years in college. Features 60 insightful "best jobs" lists and 300 information-packed job descriptions. In just two steps, 300 Best Jobs Without a Four-Year Degree helps the reader quickly and easily narrow career options (step 1: the lists) and learn more about jobs of interest (step 2: the job descriptions). This edition includes the most current labor market information, career cluster information for each job, and "Considerations for Job Outlook" for each occupation. It features: coverage of a wide range of fields and industries; and six education, training, and work experience levels that include many people.

The Top 100: The Fastest-Growing Careers for the 21st Century, Fifth Edition gives readers the inside scoop on jobs projected to experience the fastest growth, the greatest opportunity, and the best earnings through 2018, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor. This informative resource examines a wide range of industries, including computers, education, engineering, finance, food, health care, and more, as well as job opportunities at various levels of skill and education. Each job article describes the job duties; required education, training, and skills; expected earnings; and much more. An introduction explains how the jobs were selected and includes overviews of the most popular career fields.

Every identifiable industry in the U.S. is organized into a major category of related industries and given a specific code number. These codes are called Standard Industrial Classification codes and this manual contains them all. The codes relate to an organizational system used by many professionals such as bankers, accountants, economists, and many more.

A reprint of the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996-97 edition.