What's New?

In response to the nation’s shifting employment landscape and the needed upskilling of many roles, O*NET is transitioning from a five-level to a four-level Job Zone structure.

The updated system will debut with the O*NET 30.2 Database release in February 2026, ensuring the resource continues to deliver accurate, relevant insights to support career exploration, workforce development, and economic planning. To learn about the new four-level framework, see: O*NET Job Zones in Transition: A New Four-Level Framework Reflecting the Increased Skill Demands of Occupations.

The new O*NET Interest Profiler (onetinterestprofiler.org) makes it easier than ever to discover your work-related interests and explore career options that are a good fit for you.

• Use your phone, tablet, or laptop to answer 30 questions and quickly get a personalized profile of your interests.
• Learn about your interests, then see careers matching your profile. You can tailor the career list to your needs and goals with several filter and sort options.
• Each career displays key information like preparation level, salary, and job outlook. Full career reports and job postings are only a click away.
• Share or print your profile, then come back later to keep exploring on any device.

The new Profiler can also be found at My Next Move. Developers can easily make it part of their websites by embedding a new widget, and more API integration options will be available soon. For information on how the Profiler selects matching careers, see: Career Returns within the O*NET Interest Profiler Tools.

O*NET Resource Center has an interactive O*NET Reference List that showcases the extensive use of O*NET data, websites, applications, and tools. This update adds 250+ new references. Explore over 2,700 research and product-oriented references. Download a complete reference listing. Or, browse references by topic of interest including:

• Career and Vocational Research
• Education Research
• Health Research
• Industrial/Organizational Research
• Labor Market Research
• Application Development
• O*NET Evaluation
• O*NET Initiatives and Development

Look into how O*NET information and tools were used. Direct linkages to each reference make it easy to access the wide variety of publications.

Know of an additional publication that used O*NET data, tools, or applications? Send the reference to O*NET Customer Service.

218 occupations are updated in the 30.0 release of the O*NET database:

• 78 O*NET-SOC occupations are updated with data from job incumbents and occupational experts. This type of data is available for a total of 895 O*NET-SOC occupations.
• 170 O*NET-SOC occupations have Detailed Work Activities (DWAs) updated by occupational analysts.

For more information on these updates, see: O*NET 30.0 Database Overview.

The new data is incorporated within My Next Move, Mi Próximo Paso, My Next Move for Veterans, and O*NET OnLine.

Download the database from the Resource Center. Developers can also access the latest data from O*NET Web Services.

The military information included within O*NET OnLine and My Next Move for Veterans provides transitioning veterans with a wide variety of civilian career options to explore. New codes, titles, and linkages to O*NET-SOC occupations are added from the ASVAB Career Exploration Program external site and DOD COOL external site. See MNM for Veterans Military Transition Search and O*NET OnLine Military Crosswalk Search, or visit O*NET Resource Center Crosswalks to learn more.

350 occupations are updated in the 29.3 release of the O*NET database:

• Emerging task statements related to drone technology were identified for 55 occupations by a new source that uses artificial intelligence and subject matter expert input (AI/SME).
• An updated listing of 172 “Hot Technologies,” based on employer job postings from across all occupations, resulted in 11,600+ occupation linkages.
• Updated “In Demand” technology skill designations, based on employer job postings from within each occupation, led to 2,300+ “In Demand” skill linkages across 495 occupations.
• 60+ new technology linkages related to 42 occupations were identified from employer job postings.

The new information is incorporated within My Next Move, Mi Próximo Paso, My Next Move for Veterans, and O*NET OnLine. Download the database from the Resource Center. Developers can also access the latest data from O*NET Web Services.

To learn about the identification of emerging tasks within the O*NET System, see: Identification of Emerging Tasks in the O*NET System: A Revised Approach and Adding Drone-Specific Tasks to the O*NET Database: Initial Identification of Emerging Tasks using ChatGPT.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics external site (BLS) has released wage estimates for 2024. New state-level employment projections (2022-2032) are also available from Projections Central external site. These updates are included in career reports within O*NET OnLine, My Next Move, Mi Próximo Paso, and My Next Move for Veterans. Local, state, and national wage distributions are presented via simple, easy-to-interpret graphics.

My Next Move's state maps also feature updated data, showing which states have above average work opportunities for a given career. Click on “Check out my state” from career reports in My Next Move, Mi Próximo Paso, and My Next Move for Veterans. Developers can access this feature via O*NET Web Services.

A new, Modernized National Career Clusters® Framework external site developed by Advance CTE (2024 edition) is now available to serve as an organizing tool for programs, curriculum design, and instruction. Career Clusters contain occupations in the same field of work that require similar skills. They can help focus plans towards obtaining the necessary knowledge, competencies, and training for success in a particular career pathway.

O*NET OnLine, My Next Move, My Next Move for Veterans, and Mi Próximo Paso all have updated search applications that take advantage of the new framework’s organization, clusters, sub-clusters, descriptions, example programs of study, and occupation/career linkages.

Developers can also access the latest data from O*NET Web Services.

Find your career pathway today!

Machine-Discoverable Data is a newly added section within the O*NET Resource Center. It covers a variety of available machine-discoverable information about the O*NET Database and Web Services. Discoverable data can lead to:

• Improved data accessibility
• Automated integration
• Faster data analysis
• Enhanced data quality
• Streamlined decision-making

Take advantage of Embedded JSON-LD open format data related to Competency Frameworks, Occupation Taxonomies, research datasets, and more!

The 29.2 release of the O*NET Database updates alternate titles and items related to the O*NET Data Collection questionnaires.

Specifically:

• 1,444 alternate titles related to 546 occupations were added from employer job postings and customer input.
• Updated versions of the generic, customizable forms of the questionnaires used in the O*NET Data Collection Program were published.
• Updated “Survey Booklet Locations” and “Content Model Reference” files reflect changes and edits within the O*NET questionnaires. See: O*NET Database - Data Collection Files.

New titles are incorporated within My Next Move, Mi Próximo Paso, My Next Move for Veterans, and O*NET OnLine.

Learn more or download the database from the Resource Center. Developers can also access the latest data from O*NET Web Services.

O*NET Resource Center has an interactive O*NET Web Services Users summary.

O*NET Web Services currently provides the latest O*NET data, search features, and career tools to 5,100+ users. Explore examples from five primary user groups to discover the diversity of applications and audiences leveraging O*NET information.

Check it out on your desktop or mobile device today!

Customized “career word cloud” headers are included for all career reports within My Next Move and My Next Move for Veterans. The clouds were updated to reflect new interest high-point codes.

To learn more about the word clouds, see: Developing Career Word Clouds for the O*NET System.

To learn more about the effort to leverage supervised machine learning to update the vocational interest information, see: Using Machine Learning to Develop Occupational Interest Profiles and High-Point Codes for the O*NET System.