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This 3-page paper discusses the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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is that of job analysis, a process that allows a user to collect necessary information about a job, such as duties, responsibilities, outcomes and work environment (Heathfield). The goal of
O*NET (or rather, the Department of Labor in One tool that is used to help with job analysis is O*NET, which is short for Occupational Information Network (About O*NET, 2010).
The goal of O*NET is to "build a demand-driven workforce system by increasing the accessibility of workforce information through National Electronic Tools" (Tippens
and Hilton, 2009, p. 1-2). In this paper, weve been asked to explore the O*NET site and to answer a few questions
concerning the use of the site. How easy was it to find the specific occupation you were looking for, and how comprehensive was the information provided about that occupation?
On the occupation side, O*NET works pretty well. All thats necessary is to put in a key word, punch it in and -
voila! - a whole bunch of different careers are at ones fingertips. In some careers, the main challenge in using O*NET was trying to cull down the list to more
management proportions. Even under the somewhat generic form "writer," O*NET came up with a variety of options, from writers and authors, to copywriters and creative writers, to gaming and sports
book writers, composers and public relations specialists (O*NET Online, 2010). Even word processors and typists were under this category (O*NET Online, 2010).
So while the career search engine is a pretty good one, the user would need to rely on some creativity as well. Getting back to the "Writers" search, its highly
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