The academic job market is famously protracted. Job postings started appearing last summer for positions beginning this fall; we’re in March now, and new postings are still popping up. But we’ve reached a point in the semester when many PhDs and postdocs are facing down a difficult truth: “I may not receive a faculty job offer this year.”
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By Alison Howard
Alison HowardAssociate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
Natty and Michael discuss why the Career Services offices has its name, when many other schools use different language. They also dive into the difference between being a career advisor versus and career coach, in a wide ranging conversation about …
By Michael DeAngelis
Michael DeAngelisSenior Associate Director, Communications & Technology
Natty and Michael are joined by guest Dustin Miller as they inventory some of the great career related movies in cinematic history and the lessons you can learn (or ignore) from them!
Marisy Nieto, Masters in Environmental Biology, 2026, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
At PennVet’s New Bolton Center campus, the Agricultural Systems and Microbial Genomics (ASMG) Laboratory is brewing up bacterial blends that could be used to help reduce methane emissions and improve …
March (and spring weather!) are just around the corner, and March is National Reading Month! Last year, I joined the board of my local public library, and that has served to reignite my lifelong interest in reading for fun. In …
By Dianne Hull
Dianne HullSenior Associate Director, Graduate Students & Postdocs
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.)
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Occupation Description
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Employment Trends
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Top Employers
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Education Levels
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Annual Earnings
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Technical Skills
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Core Competencies
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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.