Find Your Career With O*NET

Whether you’re a young adult investigating potential career paths or an experienced professional thinking about a career change, O*NET, the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network, offers an abundance of information about hundreds of jobs to help you identify the career path that is right for you. What does an exercise physiologist do? Do I need a masters degree to work as a survey statistician? How much do teaching assistants make? O*NET has put together just about everything you could possibly want to know about specific occupations, free and accessible online (https://www.onetonline.org/).

This plethora of data is arranged into six categories:

Occupation-Specific Information – title, description, alternate titles, tasks, tools and technology

Experience Requirements – experience and training, skills – entry requirement, licensing

Worker Requirements – skills, knowledge, education

Worker Characteristics – abilities, occupational interests, work values, work styles

Occupational Requirements – work activities (general, intermediate, detailed), organizational context, work context

Workforce Characteristics – Labor market information, occupational outlook

O*NET’s huge database can be difficult to navigate, so a great place to start investigating is https://www.mynextmove.org/. Here, you can search careers with key words, browse careers by industry, or if you’re not sure where to start, take the O*NET interest profiler. Once you’ve answered the questions, the profiler will suggest occupations based on your interests that you might want to check out.

If you’d like more help with career choices or would like to speak to a professional counselor about any other mental health challenges or concerns, we invite you to call Olive Branch Counseling Associates at 708-633-8000. You can meet with a professional counselor in person at 6819 167^th St. in Tinley Park, IL 60477 or we can arrange a telehealth appointment. It would be our pleasure to serve you.

Molly V.

Graduate Intern, 2025

Olive Branch Counseling Associates, Inc.