This is Roscommon law again with lesson number 10. Finding hot careers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics maintains one of the most useful and comprehensive databases for the US government called the Occupational Outlook Handbook, or H. It is the government's guide to career information about hundreds of occupations. In this sense, it is very similar to own it, and indeed, it frequently shares information with on it. But all it is more powerful than on it. It is packed with user friendly drop down lists, filters, data maps, tables, and detailed descriptions that are Only the government's huge resources can compile and maintain.
The homepage of the site provides an easy to use drop down menu to search for occupations of interest to us are two fields, the entry level education and the growth rate. While why these two fields, why entry level education and why the growth rate? Well, our objective is to find hot careers which can be had with a bachelor's degree. But how do we define a hot career? We look at its growth rate in percent. Suppose a carrier is growing at 10% a year.
That means that if there were 100,000 jobs this year in that profession, the next year would have 110,000 jobs. Because the US population is growing at less than 1%. a carrier which grows at 10% is pretty hot. Back at the O h page, let's select an entry level education of a bachelor's degree at a 30% plus growth rate. Yes 30%. This means that we are looking for jobs that are growing extremely fast.
These jobs are in huge demand. The finder returns just two super hot occupations. Let us examine the operations research analysts carrier by clicking on it. This brings up an own it like page with lots of information about the profession. It's such a high median pay, the return on investment is bound to be high. Clicking on how to become one shows that this is a heavily math intensive profession.
If math is not your cup of tea, you will probably not like this career. back again to the original or eight screen, relaxing the job growth rate in the drop down to 20 to 29% opens up more professions, in this case a total of eight. These are all very hot careers because of the high growth rate. and choosing 10 to 19% opens up even more professions a total of 29. This makes sense, the slower the projected growth rate, relatively speaking, the more jobs there are, these are more mature careers reflected in a more mature economy. occupational groups are either great or features is that the database classifies all jobs into occupation.
Groups using familiar terms that we use in everyday life. Clicking on any group lists all the careers within that group, including the brief description and the expected median compensation. Summary. By using simple drop downs and clicks or H provides you with a lot of information about the job market, hot careers, employment, Outlook, work conditions and so on. It is an excellent reference site to explore. The how to become one tab for each career is extremely valuable.
It tells you what the preconditions for success are for any career, including what educational qualifications you will need. It is fairly To match these requirements with your own interests on the research test, for example, a person with a high social score is unlikely to find jobs in the investigative group interesting. And to make things easy or links easily with honors, and vice versa. These two databases are powerful resources for field of study selection, because they help complete your career roadmap. If you have any questions, please let us know. Thank you.