The Labor Market Insights tool is a powerful tool designed to help you make educated decisions in your career exploration process. Once you’ve selected your career option, use the following sections to:
Core Tasks: this section will give you a better understanding of any given occupation’s core tasks and responsibilities. A job or career can often be much more complex than we ever imagined.
Employment Trends: Does the industry you are exploring have growth potential? Is demand expected to grow or decline? Think about how this may or may not be helpful in your exploration.
Top Employers: We’ve all heard of the big names in any industry, but are there some companies or employers you’ve never heard of? This can be very helpful in your job search process.
Education Level: Will your WSU degree be enough education? You will see that some career pathways encourage a master’s or even doctoral degree.
Annual Earning: This section will change dramatically by location (you can use the filters on the dashboard to see how earning change by regions).
Technical Skills and Core Competencies: One of our favorite sections. This is a great way to ensure you are using your time at WSU to build your skill set. Many of the Core Competencies are reinforced in your courses (pro tip: check out your course syllabi to see how the course’s learning outcomes align with the Core Competencies needed in your preferred industry). You will gain many of the Technical Skills via your co-curricular involvement (this includes internships, student employment, campus involvement, etc.)
If you want more information or help exploring the Labor Market Insights tool, you can schedule an appointment with one of our career coaches on Handshake.
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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.)
Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)
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.
This page includes information from the O*NET 25.1 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor,
Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of
USDOL/ETA. uConnect in partnership with Lightcast has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not
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