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seventy-year-old Dictionary of Occupational Titles with current information that can be accessed online or through a variety of public and private sector career and labor market information systems." The decision to move from the DOT to O*NET, "remains controversial (e.g., Gibson, Harvey, & Harris, 2007; Harvey, 2009; Harvey & Hollander, 2002), even as we approach the 20-year anniversary of its inception (e.g., APDOT, 1992). Many applied psychologists have praised O*NET (e.g., Peterson, Mumford, Borman, Jeanneret, Fleishman, Levin, Campion, Mayfield, Morgeson, Pearlman, Gowing, Lancaster, Silver, & Dye, 2001)."
379: 115:(USDOL/ETA) describes the O*NET as: "a database of occupational requirements and worker attributes. It describes occupations in terms of the skills and knowledge required, how the work is performed, and typical work settings. It can be used by businesses, educators, job seekers, human resources professionals, and the publicly funded Workforce Investment System to help meet the talent needs of our competitive global economy. O*NET information helps support the creation of industry competency models." 78:
and away from heavy industry." With the shift in the economy, plans developed to replace the book format of the DOT with an online database. A limited use, preliminary version was released in December 1997, followed by a public edition in December 1998. The O*NET thus, "supersedes the
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The O*NET system varies from the DOT in a number of ways. It is a digital database which offers a "flexible system, allowing users to reconfigure data to meet their needs" as opposed to the "fixed format" of the DOT; it reflects the employment needs of an
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definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses and workforce development professionals to understand today's world of work in the United States. It was developed under the sponsorship of the
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jobs. Updated periodically, the DOT provided useful occupational information for many years. But its usefulness waned as the economy shifted toward
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Job requirements: the work activities and context, including the physical, social, and organizational factors involved in the work
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From 1938 to the 1990s, vocational lists and employment matching offered by the U.S. government were available through the book,
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Experience requirements: the training and level of licensing and experience needed for the work
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A Database for a Changing Economy: Review of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET)
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Personal characteristics: the abilities, interests, and values needed to perform the work
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Rounds, James, Patrick I. Armstrong, Hsin-Ya Liao, and Phil Lewis & David Rivkin. "
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Second Generation Occupational Interest Profiles for the O*NET System: Summary
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Personal requirements: the skills and knowledge required to perform the work
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Labor market: the occupational outlook and the pay scale for the work
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or the DOT. The DOT was first published in 1938 and "emerged in an
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Career guidance in India based on O*NET and cultural variables
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Database of definition of occupations in the United States
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For each job, O*NET provides the following information:
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Index

online database
job
US Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration
John L. Holland
Holland Codes
Dictionary of Occupational Titles
industrial economy
blue-collar
information and services
Standard Occupational Classification
Information society
Industrial society
US Department of Labor
Employment and Training Administration
Holland Codes
About O*NET




Replace with a database: O*NET replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
Archived
Wayback Machine
O*NET OnLine: Interests


O*NET - beyond information - intelligence
"Deriving Synthetic Validity Models: Is R=.80 Large Enough?"
Virginia Tech

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