Oklahoma Career Information System

The Oklahoma Career Information System is an easy-to-use one-stop shop for in-depth information about careers, career planning, education and training, and more. When you're coming from OKCareerPlanner.com, you won't need a log-in to use the information in OKCIS. To create a portfolio and save information for your next visit, you'll still need log in credentials from your school, Workforce Oklahoma center or other subscriber agency or organization.

Career Exploration

• Assess your aptitudes and interests with an array of outstanding tools.
• Use the new Reality Check tool to see how much income you need to support your chosen lifestyle.
• Look up U.S., Oklahoma, and, in some cases, individual city pay ranges for thousands of jobs.
• Pick an occupation and see a brief video showing the job and the skills required.
• Get details on work activities, working conditions, preparation, high school courses to take, hiring practices, demand outlook, advancement opportunities, and other information for thousands of occupations.
• Find out about more than 100 military employment specialties.

Training Programs and Schools

• Link straight from occupations to education and training recommendations.
• Link from those recommendations directly to Oklahoma schools with relevant programs.
• Use School Sort tools to zero in on your school by major, location, size, tuition, and other factors.

Finding Financial Aid

• Find answers to financial aid questions.
• Use Financial Aid Sort to find scholarships and loans that match your plans, abilities and background.

Getting a Job, Changing Jobs

• Use the Skills Assessment tool to match your skills to potential occupations.
• Develop a complete job search plan, from choosing an occupation to employer contacts and staying positive.
• Get job-keeping tips on developing good habits, getting raises and promotions, dealing with problems, and more.
• Explore possibilities for working for yourself.

Where to get your OKCIS login

You need a user name and password to make full use of OKCIS. Get login information at:

• Most high school guidance offices
• CareerTech centers
• Workforce Oklahoma offices

OKCIS access credentials are also available at many Oklahoma colleges and universities, certain Department of Rehabilitation Services offices, several Oklahoma public middle schools, many juvenile detention centers, Indian nation offices, libraries, churches, and other subscriber locations. This OKCIS subscriber list may be useful, although the list changes continuously as organizations add and drop the service.

Featured Occupation - Machinist

 

Here is just a small sample of some of the information OKCIS can give you about just one occupation. Log-on today!

Machinist

Machinists use machine tools to produce precision metal parts.

Machinists play a central role in building solar-system exploring spacecraft that send back spectacular photos of the moon, Mars and other planets. Many machinists work in the aerospace industry, cooperating with engineers and computer software, to make complex, one-of-a-kind parts from titanium and other metals.

Activities – study blueprints, calculate cut locations, run and care for machines, make precision metal parts …

Conditions – usually indoors, often in teams, must be very exact, meet strict deadlines, repeat physical activities …

Skills and Abilities – specific communication, problem-solving, visualization, and management skills; ability to solve math problems, work with people and work with machines and gauges …

Prep – high school diploma or GED, two years training, four-year apprenticeship …

Wages – $25,050-$39,010 a year, median is $32,180 …

Outlook – 5,500 machinists in OK, 170 jobs open a year, jobs hard to fill …

Advancement – can train to be CNC programmers, may become supervisors or managers or open own shops …

Programs – machine shop technology at 12 CareerTech centers and at OK Institute of Technology, apprenticeships …

Military – hires and trains machinists …

Job Central – lists current openings for machinists …

Videos
You can view a video in English or Spanish showing what a machinist does.