Augustana College’s CORE:  Career, Opportunities, Research, and Exploration is committed to providing students with the resources necessary to make informed decisions and achieve career success. Our team is here to support transfer students who might have a tighter timeframe for accessing career resources. Team members in CORE are available to support student experiences that will help them to be successful during and after college for Augustana students starting on day one.
Augie Choice
Augie Choice guarantees students the opportunity for the kinds of learning that will make them stand out when they start careers or go on to graduate school.
Center for the Advancement of Community Health & Wellness
This interdisciplinary center strengthens campus and community wellbeing through applied student research, internships, community service, and other experiential learning opportunities.
EDGE Center
EDGE is the campus Entrepreneurial Center and is not just for business majors – open to all students of all majors and has students from 30+ different majors every year and a great way to build skills and expand your resume.
International & Off-Campus Programs
CORE helps students find the best study-abroad programs for their needs, including some domestic study-away options and programs from short-term experiences to a full year, on six continents.
Student Research & Creative Scholarship
CORE works with interested students at every level to find research opportunities, as well as funding sources for their research and creative projects, presentations, and travel—including Augustana grants.
Upper Mississippi Center
The UMC engages students and classes from many fields in projects related to transportation, economics, landscape, and urban forests, public health, and issues related to the health and sustainability of communities.
Vocational Exploration
Have you ever asked yourself: What should I do when I grow up? How can I do something that makes a difference in the world? Am I choosing the right major? Am I being the best person for my family?
Career Development & Vocation
Career Development & Vocation partners with students by providing career coaching, curated resources and networks, and opportunities for career readiness skill development so that they may develop personalized pathways leading to lives of purpose and meaning
The Viking Score is Augustana College’s career-readiness program to support students through college and post-graduate life by tracking experiences and awarding points to earn incentives along the way.
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This interdisciplinary center strengthens campus and community wellbeing through applied student research, internships, community service, and other experiential learning opportunities. …
Labor Market InsightsIn partnership with
Explore occupations by career categories and pathways and use real time labor market data to power your decision making.
First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)
Occupation Description
Employment Trends
Top Employers
Education Levels
Annual Earnings
Technical Skills
Core Competencies
Job Titles
Occupation Description
Employment Trends
The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.
Top Employers
These companies are currently hiring for .
Education Levels
The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.
Annual Earnings
Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.
Technical Skills
A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.
Core Competencies
The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.
Job Titles
A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.
