Welcome to the Human Services Community! Learn more here about the different career paths you can pursue, get resources to start your career journey and take next steps to pursue career opportunities.
Human Service occupations are any that provide or facilitate services to improve the personal, emotional/mental wellbeing of others. This includes highly trained specialists like mental health care professionals, counselors & social workers as well as childcare workers, cosmetologists, personal care aides and workers representing religious organizations. If you have the motivation to improve the lives of others then the human services cluster is worth considering.
Whether in Humanities, Psychology, or Human Development, the job market for Human Services majors may seem overwhelming, especially if you want to start your career in a meaningful field after finishing your degree. In a recent article by Handshake, WSU’s …
The Partnership for Public Service is a non-profit & non-partisan organization that with the goal of providing support for current government workers and helping match young people to government opportunities. Learn more about their internship support programs!
By Harrison Hughes
Harrison HughesAssistant Director, Career Coach & Academic Advisor
Students studying Human Development, Psychology, Social Sciences, Ethnic Studies, Humanities, and Philosophy all have foundational knowledge that is applicable to human services and can take your career in many directions. These degrees lend themselves to many professions in social support …
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) offers an excellent tool for planning with their first destination survey results.
“NACE’s First-Destination Survey captures information regarding how new college graduates fare in their careers within six months of graduation. The …
By Harrison Hughes
Harrison HughesAssistant Director, Career Coach & Academic Advisor
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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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.
