459APPENDIX B
The Guide for
Occupational
Exploration (GOE)
Interest Areas and
Work Groups
T
he RIASEC classifi cation that this book uses to organizes occupations was originally
developed as a way of interpreting the results of an interest inventory. However, it is not
the only interest-based way of classifying jobs.! e Guide for Occupational Exploration
(GOE) was developed by the U.S. Department of Labor as an intuitive way to assist in career
exploration. In the New Guide for Occupational Exploration, Fourth Edition, JIST revised
the GOE scheme to match the 16 career clusters that the U.S. Department of Education’s
Offi ce of Vocational and Adult Education developed around 1999 and that many states now
use to organize their career-oriented programs and career information.! e GOE structure organizes the world of work into large interest areas (or clusters) and
more specifi c work groups containing jobs that have a lot in common.! is appendix defi nes
the 16 GOE interest areas and lists the work groups included in each interest area. We
thought you would want to see the complete GOE taxonomy so you would understand how
any job that interests you fi ts into this structure.Interest areas have two-digit code numbers; work groups have four-digit code numbers
beginning with the code number for the interest area in which they are classifi ed.! ese are
the 16 GOE interest areas and their work groups:
01 Agriculture and Natural Resources: An interest in working with plants, animals, forests, or mineral
resources for agriculture, horticulture, conservation, extraction, and other purposes. You can
satisfy this interest by working in farming, landscaping, forestry, fi shing, mining, and
related fi elds. You may like doing physical work outdoors, such as on a farm or ranch,
in a forest, or on a drilling rig. If you have a scientifi c curiosity, you could study plants
and animals or analyze biological or rock samples in a lab. If you have management