Experiments for use of US labour market statistics from O*NET online in Norweigan digital career management websites. Category names, descriptions and occupation title have been translated to Norwegian (bokmål) to check relevance in Norwegian labour market context.
Databases of O*Net are released in common database formats. All files may be downloaded from onetcenter.org.
Documentation of surveys used to create this dataset from onetcenter.org.
The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs.
Information in O*NET is available for over 900 occupations.
Each occupational title and code is based on the 2010 version of the Standard Occupational Classification system.
the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this freely available database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, the interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers. Every occupation requires a different mix of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and is performed using a variety of activities and tasks. These distinguishing characteristics of an occupation are described by the O*NET Content Model, which encapsulates the key features of an occupation into a standardized, measurable set of variables called "descriptors". The hierarchical model starts with six domains, describing the day-to-day aspects of the job and the qualifications and interests of the typical worker. The model expands to 277 descriptors collected by the O*NET program (...)*
- Tasks
- Tools & Technology
- Knowledge
- Skills
- Abilities
- Work Activities
- Work Context
- Job Zone
- Education
- Credentials
- Interests
- Work Styles
- Work Values
- Related Occupations
- Crosswalk
- Wages & Employment
- Job Openings
- Additional Information
Dependencies:
- MacOS, files dowloaded to home folder in
Downloads/onet(TODO set to path by settings file) - Mysql, with shell access to passwordless login.
O*NETData will be imported to a database calledonet- Url to data files change for each version, so this must be changed to recent version manually