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.
Cross-Functional Skills - Entry Requirement — Entry requirement for developed capacities that facilitate performance of activities that occur across jobs
Social Skills - Entry Requirement
Social Perceptiveness - Entry Requirement
- Coordination - Entry Requirement
- Persuasion - Entry Requirement
- Negotiation - Entry Requirement
- Instructing - Entry Requirement
- Service Orientation - Entry Requirement
- Complex Problem Solving Skills - Entry Requirement
- Problem Identification - Entry Requirement
- Information Gathering - Entry Requirement
- Information Organization - Entry Requirement
- Synthesis/Reorganization - Entry Requirement
- Idea Generation - Entry Requirement
- Idea Evaluation - Entry Requirement
- Implementation Planning - Entry Requirement
- Solution Appraisal - Entry Requirement
- Technical Skills - Entry Requirement
- Operations Analysis - Entry Requirement
- Technology Design - Entry Requirement
- Equipment Selection - Entry Requirement
- Installation - Entry Requirement
- Programming - Entry Requirement
- Testing - Entry Requirement
- Operation Monitoring - Entry Requirement
- Operation and Control - Entry Requirement
- Product Inspection - Entry Requirement
- Equipment Maintenance - Entry Requirement
- Troubleshooting - Entry Requirement
- Repairing - Entry Requirement
- Systems Skills - Entry Requirement
- Visioning - Entry Requirement
- Systems Perception - Entry Requirement
- Identifying Downstream Consequences - Entry Requirement
- Identification of Key Causes - Entry Requirement
- Judgment and Decision Making - Entry Requirement
- System Evaluation - Entry Requirement
- Resource Management Skills - Entry Requirement
- Time Management - Entry Requirement
- Management of Financial Resources - Entry Requirement
- Management of Material Resources - Entry Requirement
- Management of Personnel Resources - Entry Requirement
Primary occupational information source for Content Model items:
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U.S. Department of Labor O*NET Data Collection Program |
Supplemental sources of information:
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U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics  |
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U.S. Department of Labor America's Career InfoNet |
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U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship |
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U.S. Department of Education Classification of Instructional Programs |
Other indicators:
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Data not currently available |