This classic, an ideal starting place for conducting career research, is an essential resource for public, college, high school, and junior high school libraries; career centers; guidance offices; and other agencies that are involved with career exploration.

Receiving prominent treatment in this edition are the top 10 fastest-growing careers and the top 10 careers that experts predict will add the greatest number of positions through the year 2014.

Contains more than 700 articles that have been fully revised and updated to provide the most accurate and current career information available. This edition features:

• Completely up-to-date overviews of 93 industries
  
• More than 700 completely revised and updated career articles
  
• More than 35 new career articles
  
• The latest information on salaries and employment trends
  
• More than 320 on-the-job interviews
  
• More than 220 sidebars, providing additional reading on industry issues and history, useful websites, industry jargon, and much more
  
• Approximately 550 photographs of people on the job, with more than 100 new to this edition
  
• Career articles keyed to four different government classification systems
  
• More than 2,500 websites listed for further information
  
• Career Guidance section in Volume 1, providing information on interviewing, job hunting, networking, writing resumes, and more
  
• A comprehensive job title index in each volume, plus additional indexes in Volume 1.

For grades 9 and up. Black-and-white photographs. Indexes. Appendixes. In five volumes. 3,816 Pages. 8.5 x 11. September 2007.

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