Credits
CareerMeasure includes information from O*NET OnLine and the U.S. Department of Labor’s O*NET® Database, plus CMAP research data for observed job-title movement pathways. This page documents license terms, citation links, required attribution language, and how we use and modify the data to support structured fit analysis, career profiles, and exploration in our product.
✅ Attribution (On This Site)
If you have questions about our modifications or use of the data, email [email protected].
📄 O*NET® Data and License
This service includes information from O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), including data from the O*NET 30.2 Database (February 2026 release). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. O*NET OnLine is sponsored by USDOL/ETA and developed by the National Center for O*NET Development.
- Credit O*NET OnLine and USDOL/ETA as the original source
- Link to the CC BY 4.0 license
- Indicate where changes were made
O*NET should be used as an adjective, followed by a generic product name. Examples include “with O*NET data” and “includes information from the O*NET database.”
🧭 CMAP Research Data (Job Title Movement)
CareerMeasure uses the Career Map Dataset (CMAP) as a job-title movement layer. In our product, CMAP supports observed role-to-role transition pathways, transition share percentages, and previous/next movement context around a selected role.
- Research scope includes large-scale anonymized professional histories with cross-sector job-title movement data.
- CMAP publishes validated promotion transitions for U.S. and U.K. datasets, plus separate inferred transition sets for broader regions.
- The CMAP release also includes title normalization resources and SOC-linked occupational mappings used in our integration pipeline.
We cite both the peer-reviewed publication and the dataset release record:
- Scientific Data article (2025): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05526-3
- Zenodo dataset record: https://zenodo.org/records/15260189
CMAP is used as research-based movement evidence in CareerMeasure. We may apply product-level normalization, mapping, and ranking layers on top of the source data. Please refer to the linked publication and Zenodo record for original methodology, release notes, and citation metadata.
🧠 How We Use Career Data
CareerMeasure combines validated career profile data with CMAP movement research so careers can be represented and compared consistently. In CareerMeasure, this is used for:
- Occupational profiles (work activities, skills, knowledge, abilities, and work context)
- Title mappings and synonyms to reduce ambiguity across job titles
- Structured career feature sets used for career matching and explanations
- Crosswalk mapping between validated career profiles and CMAP job-title movement records
CareerMeasure also includes product-specific transforms and derived features. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
CareerMeasure uses user-facing labels such as Interests, Motivations, and Strengths. These are our groupings for how we present and explain results. They may not match O*NET field names one-to-one. In some places we also summarize or rewrite occupational descriptions for clarity. The attribution statement on this page indicates that modifications were made.
🔄 Updates and Limitations
We aim to update our validated career profile dataset and CMAP movement dataset as new official releases and research updates become available.
Note: O*NET OnLine includes content from external sources. That external content may not be covered by the CC BY 4.0 license and may be subject to additional restrictions.
🔗 Links
- O*NET OnLine: https://www.onetonline.org/
- O*NET OnLine content license: https://www.onetonline.org/help/license
- CMAP Scientific Data article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05526-3
- CMAP Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/15260189
- CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/