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American Job Center Resource API


American Job Center connects businesses and people to many government services and information. In time we plan to have a fully functional api in which information can be pulled from this site.

In the meantime there are quite a few resources and APIs offered by O*Net which you find useful.

O*Net REST Reference Manual

Complete documentation for the O*Net REST web services API

O*Net Interactive Demo

From here you can try out the O*Net REST web API direct from your web browser.

Interest Profiler

The O*NET Interest Profiler is a vocational interest assessment instrument. Users receive an accurate, reliable profile of their vocational interests that helps them identify their work-related interests, focuses career search activities, and enables them to link their vocational interests to occupations.



Some usefull O*Net REST APIs

Service list

http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/
<resources>
    <resource href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/about/">
        <title>About O*NET Web Services</title>
    </resource>
    <resource href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/">
        <title>My Next Move services</title>
    </resource>
    <resource href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/veterans/">
        <title>My Next Move for Veterans services</title>
    </resource>
</resources>

This response lists the top-level web service resources available. Each of the services are described below:

Search careers with key words

http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/search?keyword=[phrase or code]
<careers keyword="architect" start="1" end="20" total="20">
    <career href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/careers/17-1011.00/">
        <code>17-1011.00</code>
        <title>Architects</title>
        <tags bright_outlook="false" green="true" apprenticeship="false" />
    </career>
    <career href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/careers/17-3011.01/">
        <code>17-3011.01</code>
        <title>Architectural Drafters</title>
        <tags bright_outlook="false" green="true" apprenticeship="true" />
    </career>
    ...
</careers>

This response searches for My Next Move careers using a word, phrase, or title. The closest matches are returned first; up to 20 results are returned.

If the service is called with a full or partial O*NET-SOC code, matching results are returned sorted by code. If more than 20 matches are found, the list will be paged; for information on navigating paged results, see the description of the See all careers service.

My Next Move services

http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/
<resources>
    <resource href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/search">
        <title>Search careers with key words</title>
    </resource>
    <resource href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/browse">
        <title>Browse careers by industry</title>
    </resource>
    <resource href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/interestprofiler/">
        <title>O*NET Interest Profiler</title>
    </resource>
    <resource href="http://services.onetcenter.org/ws/mnm/careers/">
        <title>See all careers</title>
    </resource>
</resources>

This response lists the resources corresponding to My Next Move features. Each of the resources are described below: