Review of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET)

At the request of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT)

has convened an expert committee to conduct a top-level review of the Occupational Information

Network (O*NET), a free public database on the occupations that comprise the U.S. economy.

Currently O*NET includes information on over 800 occupations. For each occupation, O*NET

provides information on the characteristics of both the occupation (e.g., work activities; tools and

technology) and the worker (e.g., skills; educational requirements). The committee is charged to

inventory and evaluate current and potential uses of O*NET in business, labor market functions,

job matching systems, and human resource management, and to consider future directions for

the program.

To gather information for its report, the committee is conducting two public workshops:

February 3, 2009 Agenda (including links to presentations)

March 26, 2009 Agenda (including links to presentations)

April 17, 2009 Agenda (including links to presentations)

Additional Materials Received by the Committee:

Committee

Committee Membership

Staff

Margaret Hilton, Study Director

Thomas Plewes, Associate Study Director

Renée L. Wilson-Gaines, Senior Project Assistant