Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: The Number of People
Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope that you will find the information helpful in your career journey.
As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that helpful to you.
Occupations can vary in the number of people who work in that particular field. Work in some lines of work will have many people in that work field while other lines of work will have few people in that work field.
Using a resource called the Occupational Outlook Handbook (a government publication printed every two years giving details on the major careers fields in the United States) (the online edition at www.bls.gov/ooh/). If you look up the occupation of Archivists you will find 6,800 people worked in that field (go to www.bls.gov/ooh , click “education, training, and Library”, click “Archivists, curators, and Museum workers”, click “Job outlook” look for “Employment projections data for archivists, curators, and museum workers, 2016-26” chart).
If you look up the occupation of Customer Service Representative you will find 2,784,500 people work in that field (go to www.bls.gov/occ/, click “Office and Administrative Support”, click “Customer Service Representative”, look for “Summary Facts: Customer Service Representative” chart)
You may have an easier time finding a job as a Customer Service Representative than as an Archivist. The number of people in a profession may influence how easy it is to find a job position in that particular profession