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Empirically based system for summarizing and displaying basic similarities and differences between occupations.

Visual and interactive, designed to engage users in the process of career exploration. 

Map organizes 555 occupations into 26 groups of similaroccupations (career areas) and six career clusters.  https://forms.act.org/wwm/index.html

Descriptions are refreshed every two years in order to reflect the changing nature of the work.

Grounded in research and is periodically updated.

Most recent update was based on three databases:expert ratings of work environments for 1,122 occupations job analysis data for 1,573 occupations interest scores for persons pursuing 640 occupations; databases were used to obtain Data/Ideas and People/Things work-task dimension scores for hundreds of occupations.

All occupations organized according to their involvement with four types of basic work tasks, working with:

•  facts, records, numbers, business procedures

• abstractions, theories, insights, new ways of doing things

• care, services, leadership, sales

• machines, materials, crops/animals