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America's Career Infonet: an excellent resource for career research.

For the person wanting to choose a career or investigate a profession, America's Career Infonet , a product of the U.
S. Department of Labor, is an excellent resource for career research. This source provides:

  • Detailed profiles of 559 occupations by state, including wage data, employ-ment trends, projections of growth to
    2014, education requirements, and web resources.

  • Industry profiles by state, including fastest growing industries,
    industries with largest employment, and industries with declining
    employment.

  • State by state labor market information, including links to
    cultural, educational, and recreational information.


What can Career InfoNet do for you?

If you are a student, America's Career InfoNet can help you identify
options and plan your education.  Career Videos allow you to watch real people doing real work.  You can create a
customized
Occupation Profile report on state and national wages, employment trends, knowledge, skill, and ability
requirements, as well as tasks, tools and technologies specific to an occupation.

You can also explore education options in the Career Resource Library in order to find educational requirements for
an occupation,
guides to colleges and universities, learn about accreditation of postsecondary education institutions,  
and learn about alternate training and education options like certifications and licenses at the
Workforce Credentials
Center.  You can also locate federal training programs, find educational resources by state and find out if you might
qualify for federal aid.  A
Financial Aid Advisor will show you how to apply for it along with more than 5,000 aid options
with
Scholarship Search.

If you are a job seeker, America's Career InfoNet can help you assess your job marketability using the Skills Profilier
to match your skills to an occupation, see where you fit in the job market with the
Employability Checkup, and help you
prepare for and advance in your career.

To carry out a successful job search, America's Career InfoNet helps you find employers in your area with the
Employer Locator and research them in the Career Resource Library.  You can create a powerful resume with the
Resume Tutorial
and link to more job search strategies in the Career Resource Library.  To find job leads America's Career InfoNet
provides a collection of
online job banks, or go to America's Job Bank (a part of Career OneStop).

If you are a workforce professional, you can assist your customers use Career InfoNet to make good career
decisions, assess their marketability with the
Employability Checkup, assess skills, skill gaps and related occupations
with
Skills Profiler, and research occupations on a national, state or local level.  If your customer wants to start a
business or is thinking about moving to another state Career InfoNet provides the links to appropriate web resources.

If you are an employer, Career InfoNet can help you learn about successful strategies to start and manage a
business.  You will  learn about self-employment and telecommuting opportunities in the
Career Resource Library and
use the
Business Center to help start your business, make it grow, manage your resources, and maintain a safe
environment for your employees.

Career InfoNet will help you research workplace issues and find labor market information using it's  up-to-date
resources on topics such as
employment law, hiring, and disability resources.  With Career InfoNet you will find related
employers and industries in your area, access wage and trends reports, other occupation Information to research
hiring trends, and write better job descriptions using the power of O*NET on the Job Description Writer.  You can also
browse the
Career Resource Library articles related to hiring and recruiting.

After helping you start and manage a business,  Career InfoNet can also help you find active and qualified applicants
by allowing you to screen and search for applicants on its list of
national and local job banks including America's Job
Bank.

Lastly, Career InfoNet will help you enhance the skills of your workforce by providing access to local
certifications
research,
training programs, and licenses.  You can find online resources for employee tests and assessments and
explore different kinds of workplace credentials at the
Workforce Credentials Center.