"What Could Your Next Job Be? Findings From the 1998 Minnesota Survey of New and Evolving Occupations" Minnesota Department of Economic Security
Summary In an attempt to supplement the traditional DOL occupational descriptions, the Research & Planning Office conducted a statewide survey to identify New and Evolving Occupations (NEOs) and their associated characteristics. Employers were asked to identify occupations within their firm that fit the following definitions:
How is O*NET being used? O*NET skills, abilities and generalized
work activity roll-ups were used in an effort to keep the survey size manageable
and enhance response rates while maintaining comparability with existing
O*NET occupations.
Who is your target population? The target population for the NEO Project
was career explorers, employers needing workers in these emerging occupations,
program planners, and policy makers.
What kind of results is O*NET helping you to achieve? O*NET helped us identify new workplace
opportunities and trends and provided a basis of comparability with previously
identified occupations.
What are the related program initiatives? This study built on a previous survey of
NEOs that used another, related skills taxonomy. Results of this survey
will be incorporated into career exploration tools such as Minnesota's
Internet System for Education and Employment Knowledge (ISEEK).
Is your product, program or service available for others to use? Information developed and learned during
the project has been incorporated into an HTML report that is available
on the Web (http://www.mnworkforcecenter.org/lmi/neo/)
and for download as a *.pdf file (http://www.mnworkforcecenter.org/lmi/neo/neo.pdf).
To order a paper copy, please contact the Minnesota Department of Economic
Security, Research and Planning Office, 390 North Roberts Street, Saint
Paul, MN 55101 or call 651-282-2714.
What other strategies make your product, program or service successful? High response rates on information intensive
surveys such as this are difficult to achieve. It was essential to minimize
the number of skill categories to make the survey manageable while maintaining
comparability with the original O*NET taxonomy.
Contact Information: Marc Breton
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