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1. Barbara O’Sullivan
LIS 704
Dominican University
March 23, 2015

2.  A question you were asked when you were a
child!
 Now that you are deciding what you will do
after high school or what profession you would
like to change to, you need to answer this
question.
 Where would you go to find information about
different occupations or a certain occupation
you are interested in so you can plan the next
step in the education process.

3. YOU CAN FIND INFORMATION
ABOUT
822 OCCUPATIONS AT:
OCCUPATIONAL
OUTLOOK
HANDBOOK!

4.  The Occupational Outlook Handbook is
available in print and online.
 The Occupational Outlook Handbook is
published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics a
division of the United States Department of
Labor.
 For this presentation, we will look at the
Occupational Outlook Handbook Online, a free
open source.
 The Occupational Outlook Handbook is
available online at WWW.BLS.GOV/OOH.

5. Type the website
address
www.bls.gov/ooh
here.
Click the enter key.
This is what the
Occupational
Outlook
Handbook home
page looks like.

6.  There are several ways to search for the
information you need to know about a specific
occupation.
 For example, you want to be a librarian. Let’s
search for the occupation of a librarian.
 Let’s see what information is available on this
website about librarian.

7. The first way to
search:
You can "Search
Handbook" contained
in the blue banner.
Type in “librarians”.

8. Click on the result that is
closest to the occupation
you are looking for.
For the search on
“librarians” the first result
on the list is what we are
looking for.
Click on this result.

9. This page will tell you
about being and
becoming a librarian!
There is a summary which gives
you basic information on pay,
required education, work
experience, on the job training,
number of jobs, job outlook, and
employment change.

10. This page will tell you about
being and becoming a
librarian!
Besides the summary about the
profession, there is more
information available.
To access more information about
the following categories, Click on
the tab or the title of the paragraph.
What Librarians Do
Work Environment
How to Become a Librarian

11. This page will tell you about
being and becoming a
librarian!
To access more information
about these additional
categories, Click on the tab
or the title of the paragraph.
Pay
Job Outlook
Similar Occupations
More Information/Additional
Resources

12. You can also search
the profession you are
looking for
alphabetically.
Click on “L” to find
“librarians”.

13. An alphabetical list of
professions that starts
with “L” appears.
Scroll down to L and
find Librarians.
Click here!

14. It will take you to
the same page
we learned about
earlier that tells
us the
information we
need about
librarians.

15.  There are several ways to search for the
information to explore different professions.
 You can browse occupations by groups.
 You can browse occupations by median pay,
entry level education, on the job training,
number of new jobs projected, or growth rate.
 You can also browse occupations by highest
paying, fastest growing, or most new jobs.

16. To browse occupations
by groups,
you can click on the the
group you are interested
in under "Occupation
Groups”.
Let’s browse the group
“Education, Training and
Library”.
Click here!

17. This is the list of the
occupations under
Education, Training and
Library Occupations.
The list contains a
job summary, education
required and median
pay.
Our friend the Librarian
is here.
Click here!

18. It will take you to
the same page
we learned about
earlier about
librarians.

19. Another way to
browse:
You can browse for an
occupation by pay,
education, on the job
training, number of
new jobs or growth
rate, or combination
there of.

20. Let’s see what happens
when we want to browse
professions that require
a bachelor’s degree.
Click here and choose
bachelor’s degree under
Entry Level Education.

21. A list will appear with
occupations that require
a bachelor’s degree.
You can browse all of
the entries provided.
You can reduce the
results by picking criteria
from the other drop
down boxes.

22. You can also browse
occupations by
highest paying, fastest
growing, or most new
jobs.
Lets look at the
Highest Paying
Occupations.
Click here!

23. A list of the Highest
Paying Occupations.
You can click on the
individual occupation
to go to that individual
occupation’s page like
we did when we
searched for
“librarian”.

24.  Please feel free to re-contact a librarian at the Barb
Public Library for further assistance in navigating the
website or if you would like to see the print version of
the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
 Please call the Reference Librarians at the
Barb Public Library at (773) 301-4504.
 Or, see us in person at the reference desk.
Our address is 5500 N Harlem Avenue, Chicago.
We are open:
Monday-Thursday 9-9, Friday-Saturday 9-5,
and Sunday 1-5.
 Happy job information hunting!

25.  Cassell, K. A., & Hiremath, U. (2011). Reference
and information services in the 21st century: An
introduction. New York: Neal-Schuman
Publishers.
 www.bls.gov/ooh