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Bureau of Labor Statistics

DESCRIPTION

When deciding on a career it is important that you select a job you will enjoy, but you also need to consider the future need for that line of work. At the Bureau of Labor Statistics you can not only research job market trends but also look at wage tables, benefit tables, the state and federal employment rates and much much more.

PROCEDURE

  1. Use your WWW browser to access the site whose URL is:
    http://stats.bls.gov/

  2. Explore the site. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site locations for future use.

  3. Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.

This lesson is part of the series "DO-IT Lessons" developed by the University of Washington. Creation of the series of lessons is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers 9255803 and 9550003. The lessons are now maintained through funds from the State of Washington. The University of Washington holds the copyright to the series of lessons, however ownership of the Internet resources referenced in the lessons may be found at the resource site. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at these sites are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington or the State of Washington.

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