Perhaps the most useful way to learn what a career is all about is to find someone doing that career and connect with them. Augustana Colleges has more than 10,000 alumni active on LinkedIn and 96 of them have signed …
Perhaps the most useful way to learn what a career is all about is to find someone doing that career and connect with them. Augustana Colleges has more than 10,000 alumni active on LinkedIn and 96 of them have signed …
By Laura Kestner-Ricketts
Laura Kestner-RickettsExecutive Director, Career and Professional Development
Alison Lawrence is a 2023 Augustana graduate who plans to to attend the University of California-Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine in the fall. Lawrence majored in Biology on the Pre-Medicine track, in …
By Beth Ford
Beth FordCareer Coach for the Health Sciences & First Year Student Advisor
Perhaps the most useful way to learn what a career is all about is to find someone doing that career and connect with them. Augustana Colleges has more than 10,000 alumni active on LinkedIn and 96 of them have signed …
In the song from FROZEN called “In Summer,” Olaf the snowman daydreams of what it would be like to feel the warmth of summer rather than his normal snowy surroundings every day. Instead of daydreaming, be sure to make the …
By Laura Kestner-Ricketts
Laura Kestner-RickettsExecutive Director, Career and Professional Development
NPH(Nuestros  Pequeños Hermanos): NPH transforms the lives of thousands of children and families throughout Latin America …
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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.