Basic tour of the Occupational Outlook Handbook website.

1. The Occupational Outlook
Handbook
Published by US Dept of Labor’s
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/OCO

2. Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Provides descriptions of a large variety of
career choices.
• Including training, salary information, job
outlook, job duties and conditions

3. Occupational Outlook Handbook
The handbook website (www.bls.gov/OCO).
WARNING! The search box that it circled searches
the entire BLS web site! To search in just the
handbook, scroll down a bit more!

4. Occupational Outlook Handbook
This is where you should go to search just the
handbook.

5. Occupational Outlook Handbook
Choose the best match from the
results list. (In this case, pediatric
nurses would fall under registered
nurses.)

6. Occupational Outlook Handbook
The information page
provides a variety of
information including a
job description, training,
earnings.
It will also include links
to more information sites
at the bottom.

7. Occupational Outlook Handbook
To browse a variety of
related professions,
return to the home page
and select from the menu
on the left.

8. Occupational Outlook Handbook
After choosing from the
previous menu, you are given a
list of occupations in a
particular area. Click to see
those reports!