Occupation Research

How can you make more informed career (and education) decisions?

This webpage is focused on online career research. Your understanding about a given career will be more complete, accurate, and meaningful if it also includes:

Occupation Research Platforms

Look for state and county-level labor market information (LMI), especially when it comes to wages, job growth rates, and occupation sizes. MassHire360 (aka. MassCIS) defaults to state-level data. Other platforms default to national-level data.

MassHire360 (previously MassCIS) is free for all Massachusetts residents and highly recommended for: career assessments, occupation research, and education research.

If you are not a GCC student, use the "Massachusetts Resident" tab to login.

If you are a GCC student, use the following credentials the first time you log into the MassHire360 site.

Username: greenfieldcommc
Password: MassHire2025

Then fill in the short form to create your own MassHire360 account. This will make it possible for you to save and refer to useful information within the MassCIS360 dashboard. Click 'Yes, it is ok for the school counselor to view my comments.' so GCC Career Readiness Services can do more to assist you.

Additional Career Exploration Processes & Resources
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