Product Description

The perfect place to find a new career, advance in your current one, and keep an eye on tomorrow's jobs.

When making a decision about your career path, you need to consider every aspect of every job. With statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Outlook Handbook is the best place to seek help with your job-related research, whether you are looking for your first job or contemplating a career change. From able seaman to zoologist, you will learn vital information about more than 250 occupations. The Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2009 features helpful descriptions of nearly 90 percent of the jobs available in the U.S. economy. Packed with practical, current information, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone doing career research, making career decisions, writing resumes, or preparing for interviews.

This edition also includes a Personality-Career Quiz, which helps readers match themselves to their dream jobs. The quiz is based on the six personality types and will help readers make informed and intelligent decisions about their careers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28420 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 912 pages

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Customer Reviews

Occupational Outlook Handbook 2009
This book is an excellent overview of many possible occupations and careers. We are using it as a home school resource to encourage familiarity with many different occupations, what is entailed with each one and how one prepares for them. The book is very through and informative.

Career Information Bible
We use this as a reference for our home (and homeschool) library. It is THE best resource for looking up facts about various careers. My ten year old even enjoys browsing it! Over the years, this book will become more valuable for me as I make high school curriculum choices since it outlines the academic subjects essential for each professional field.

By the way, the entire text is available free online, but it's so much easier to reference a book than a computer screen. This book is BIG -- like a thick phone book.