Recently added articles from Occupational Outlook Quarterly:

Getting started.

Sep 22, 2007; Sommers, Dixie ... In almost anything you do, you're more likely to succeed if you have a plan. Deciding on a career is no exception. If you're making a decision about education, training, or a career--or if you are helping someone else who is making such decisions--you need to know what is going ...

Occupational employment.(Table)

Sep 22, 2007 ... When choosing a career, jobseekers often want to know which occupations offer the best prospects. Generally, occupations with rapid job growth, many new jobs, or many job openings promise better opportunities. This section shows how employment in occupations is projected to ...

Industry employment.(Table)

Sep 22, 2007 ... This section illustrates projected employment change from an industry perspective, showing which industries are projected to gain or lose jobs over the 2006-16 decade. Workers are grouped into an industry according to the type of good produced or service provided by the establishment in ...

Other BLS publications describing the 2006-16 projections.

Sep 22, 2007 ... This issue of the Quarterly is one of several BLS publications that include projections data. The others provide more detail or approach the projections from another point of view. * The November 2007 issue of the Monthly Labor Review contains five articles related to the ...

Labor force.(Table)

Sep 22, 2007 ... The labor force is the number of people aged 16 or older who are either working or looking for work. The labor force does not include active-duty military personnel or institutionalized people, such as prison inmates. The size of the labor force depends on two factors. The first ...

Overall economy.(Table)

Sep 22, 2007 ... The economy's need for workers originates in the demand for the goods and services that they provide. So, in order to project employment, BLS starts by estimating the value of the final goods produced and services provided in the United States for each year of the projections decade. This ...