Introduction ___________________________________________________________________________Here are some details on each of the major parts of the job descriptions you will fi nd in
Part IV:! Job Title:! is is the job title for the job as defi ned by the U.S. Department of Labor and
used in its O*NET database.
! Data Elements:! is information comes from various U.S. Department of Labor and
Census databases for this occupation, as explained elsewhere in this introduction.
! Summary Description and Tasks:! e bold sentences provide a summary description
of the occupation.! is is followed by a listing of tasks that are generally performed by
people who work in this job. We followed the listing of tasks in the O*NET database,
except that where necessary we edited the tasks to keep them from exceeding 2,200
characters.
! GOE:! is information cross-references the Guide for Occupational Exploration (or the
GOE), a system that organizes jobs based on interests and is used in a variety of career
information systems. We use the New Guide for Occupational Exploration, as published
by JIST.! at book uses a set of interest areas based on the 16 career clusters developed
by the U.S. Department of Education and used in a variety of career information systems.
Here we include the major interest area the job fi ts into, its more specifi c work group,
and a list of related job titles that are in this same GOE work group.! is information
will help you identify other jobs that relate to similar interests or require similar skills.
You can fi nd more information on the GOE and its interest areas in Appendix B.
! Skills:! e government provides data on many skills; we decided to list only those that
were most important for each job rather than list pages of unhelpful details. For each job,
we identifi ed any skill with a rating for level of mastery that was higher than the average
rating for that skill for all jobs and a rating for importance that was higher than very low.
If there were more than eight, we included only those eight with the highest ratings, and
we present them from highest to lowest score (that is, in terms of by how much its score
exceeds the average score). You can fi nd defi nitions of the skills in Appendix C.
! Education/Training Program(s):! is part provides the names of one or more programs
for preparing for the job.! e titles are based on the U.S. Department of Education
Classifi cation of Instructional Programs. A particular college major or training program
may not have the identical title—for example, there probably is no college that off ers
a major called “Political Science and Government, General,” but you are likely to fi nd
a major called “Political Science” or “Government.” We derived this information from
a crosswalk created by the National Crosswalk Service Center to connect information
in the Classifi cation of Instructional Programs (CIP) to ONET job titles. We made
various changes to connect the ONET job titles to the education or training programs
related to them and also modifi ed the names of some education and training programs so
they would be more easily understood. In 25 cases, we abbreviated the listing of related
programs for the sake of space; such entries end with “others.”