Current Publications

The Government's premier career reference book on occupations and tomorrow's job market. For over 60 years, this versatile volume has proven useful to both career counselors, students, and other job seekers. Completely revised every 2 years, the Occupational Outlook Handbook is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and reliable source of career information. Useful for looking up information on particular occupations, or just browsing through possible careers, the Handbook discusses hundreds of occupations that in 2008 accounted for about 9 out of every 10 jobs in the United States. For each career, it describes work activities and environment, wages, number of jobs and their location, and types of education, training, and personal qualifications needed to have the best prospects. BLS projections of employment to the year 2018 are used to assess what kind of job opportunities future entrants to each occupation should encounter. The 2012-13 edition of the Handbook, covering the 2010-20 projections, is scheduled to be released in late March 2012

As a companion publication to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, the Career Guide discusses careers from an industry perspective. The Career Guide highlights some occupations not covered by the Handbook, and discusses the nature of the work, job qualifications and advancement opportunities, job outlook, and earnings for 43 diverse industries, which account for 3 out of every 4 wage and salary jobs in the Nation.

This magazine includes practical, "how-to" information on choosing and getting today's and tomorrow's jobs. Articles are written in straightforward, non-technical language and cover a wide variety of career and work-related topics such as new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, and results of new studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Published four times a year, the Occupational Outlook Quarterly is available in 1- and 2-year subscriptions from the Superintendent of Documents. Feedback to the OOQ

The Green Jobs staff within the Employment Projections program produces career information on green jobs. The information available for occupations includes: wages, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions, and necessary education, training, and credentials. New articles will be added periodically.