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Introduction to The Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE)

Explore Career and Learning Options Based on Your Interests

The GOE section of CareerOINK is an excellent place to begin exploring your career and learning options. It is based on a system originally developed by the U.S. Department of Labor and published in the new third edition of the Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE). Published by JIST, the edition updates the earlier GOE system and arranges all jobs into 14 "Interest Areas." These Interest Areas are divided into more specific groupings of jobs, with about 1,000 job titles listed within these groupings.

If you need more detailed information about the GOE and what you will find in a sample description, click on "More Info" below. If you'd like tips on using the GOE, click on "Put the GOE to Work for You".

More Info           Put the GOE to Work for You

CareerOINK uses the GOE's structure to organize all the job titles from the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET database into groupings of similar jobs based on interests. The GOE system provides a very fast and intuitive way to identify possible career options that you might overlook otherwise. Research has also proven that this approach is as reliable as many other career assessment approaches, including inventories and "tests."

Complex Directions to Use This Part of CareerOINK

  1. Click your mouse on the GOE book cover below. Then, begin narrowing your search by clicking on groups that interest you in each list displayed, until eventually, you get a list of job titles. In most cases, there will be 3 levels of groups, starting with Interest Areas, then Work Groups, then specific Work Group descriptions. Just keep clicking on things that interest you until you get to a list of job titles. At the end of a GOE's Work Group description, you will find a list of related O*NET job titles.
  2. From that list, click on a job title that interests you, and CareerOINK will take you directly to the description for that job. Easy.

Click on the book cover below to begin using the GOE section of CareerOINK.