Christian Stuit, SEAS ’27, Lochiel Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
Since coming to Penn, I knew I wanted to start undergraduate research the summer after my freshman year. However, even after presentations and videos and scrolling through CURF’s research directory, I …
Having the opportunity to work over the summer at the Bio-Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, I found myself surrounded from beginning to end by innovative research. The lab had brain organoids, …
Join Career Services this spring for the Career Insights Series, a dynamic lineup of programs designed to help Penn graduate students and postdocs explore diverse career fields. This semester, the series will feature three key industries: Sustainability & the Environment, …
By Dianne Hull
Dianne HullSenior Associate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
This summer, I had the privilege of working with the Franklin Institute as part of their STEM Scholars Program. This program is dedicated to a select group of Philadelphia-area students in grades 9 through …
Simone Schriger, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Los Angeles, CA
This summer, I traveled to Gaborone, Botswana to complete a summer research internship based at the Multidisciplinary Tumor (MDT) Clinic at Princess Marina Hospital. This clinic – developed through the Botswana-UPenn …
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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.