Career and Professional Development (CPD) will be transitioning from our temporary space in the Woodruff Library to the newly renovated Pathways Center in the B. Jones Center beginning Wednesday, November 19th and will re-open in January 2026. All in-person student services will shift to virtual for the remainder of the fall 2025 semester.
The Career Closet will temporarily be unavailable after November 19th and remain offline until Spring 2026.
The Labor Market Insights tool is designed to give you real-time data to support your career development at every stage. Whether you are exploring career paths, preparing for an internship, or negotiating your first salary, the tool provides access to up-to-date information on job trends, salary benchmarks, and the skills employers are actively seeking.
Explore career paths: View role growth, outlook, typical qualifications, and common next steps.
Set salary expectations: Check up-to-date pay ranges by job title and location.
Find employers: Identify organizations actively hiring for roles that match your interests—great for building a target list.
For any given occupation within the module, users will find the following information:
Job titles: typical job titles within the occupational field
Occupation description: an overview of the occupation
Core tasks: what’s required for the day-to-day of the occupation
Education levels: typical education levels for employees in this occupation
Core competencies: soft skills required for the occupation
Technical skills: technical skills required for the occupation
Employment trends: historical and forecasted occupation demand data with a projected % change in demand over the next 10 years
Top employers: top employers hiring for the occupation
Annual earnings: average salary for employees in this occupation
User Tips:
Compare two roles or cities to decide where opportunities are stronger.
Use the Top Skills list as keywords in your resume/LinkedIn.
Check salary percentiles (25th/50th/75th) to guide negotiations.
Revisit before career fairs or interviews to refresh talking points.
There are two ways to navigate this tool:
Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue, or skills you may have that could be relevant for a particular career path.
Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.
Find career data by selecting keywordsKeyword Search
or, by filtering for industry and occupationIndustry Search
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
approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.
