The O*NET® Content Model

The Content Model is the conceptual foundation of O*NET. The Content Model provides a framework that identifies the most important types of information about work and integrates them into a theoretically and empirically sound system.

The Content Model was developed using research on job and organizational analysis. It embodies a view that reflects the character of occupations (via job-oriented descriptors) and people (via worker-oriented descriptors). The Content Model also allows occupational information to be applied across jobs, sectors, or industries (cross-occupational descriptors) and within occupations (occupational-specific descriptors). These descriptors are organized into six major domains, which enable the user to focus on areas of information that specify the key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.

Experience Requirements — requirements related to previous work activities and explicitly linked to certain types of work activities. This domain includes information about the typical experiential backgrounds of workers in an occupation or group of occupations including certification, licensure, and training data. For example, information about the professional or organizational certifications required for entry and advancement in an occupation, preferred education or training, and required apprenticeships will be documented by this part of the model.

(Outline View | Description View)

Basic Skills - Entry Requirement — Entry requirement for developed capacities that facilitate learning or the more rapid acquisition of knowledge

• Content - Entry Requirement
  • Reading Comprehension - Entry Requirement
  • Active Listening - Entry Requirement
  • Writing - Entry Requirement
  • Speaking - Entry Requirement
  • Mathematics - Entry Requirement
  • Science - Entry Requirement
• Process - Entry Requirement
  • Critical Thinking - Entry Requirement
  • Active Learning - Entry Requirement
  • Learning Strategies - Entry Requirement
  • Monitoring - Entry Requirement

Primary occupational information source for Content Model items:

U.S. Department of Labor O*NET Data Collection Program

Supplemental sources of information:

	U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics		U.S. Department of Labor America's Career InfoNet
	U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship		U.S. Department of Education Classification of Instructional Programs

Other indicators:

Data not currently available