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Agricultural Sciences Professor

Agricultural Sciences Professor profiles score highest on Helping and Exploring. This page covers what the work involves, what the trait profile looks like, what it pays, and where the fit tends to break.

Median pay
$98,700per year, U.S. BLS 2025
Entry education
Graduate or professional degreetypical for the occupation

SOURCE · O*NET 25-1041.00 and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Figures are national and vary widely by state and setting.

What the work involves

Teach courses in the agricultural sciences. Includes teachers of agronomy, dairy sciences, fisheries management, horticultural sciences, poultry sciences, range management, and agricultural soil conservation. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Skills rated most important

Instructing85
Learning Strategies78
Reading Comprehension78
Speaking78
Active Learning75

Work context

Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams97
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled93
Contact With Others79
Spend Time Sitting75
Spend Time Standing33
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled30
Spend Time Walking or Running21
Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body9
Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling8
Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles4
Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance1

O*NET importance and frequency ratings, 0–100.

The trait profile

Where Agricultural Sciences Professor profiles sit on the eleven Haliscope traits, derived from O*NET’s published interest and work-style data.

Helping86
Exploring80
Analyzing72
Harmonizing61
Persevering56
Law-Abiding55
Operating50
Organizing42
Safety-Seeking38
Creating33
Influencing28

Who it fits, and who it doesn’t

Strong signals

  • High Exploring. Measures your openness to new experiences and curiosity about the unknown. High scorers seek novelty, enjoy experimentation, and value the journey itself.
  • High Law-Abiding. Measures your commitment to ethics, rules, and fairness. High scorers value honesty, follow procedures, and prefer environments with clear moral guidelines.
  • High Creating. Measures your inclination toward original thinking and artistic expression. High scorers generate innovative ideas and find rigid structure limiting.

Friction points

  • Low Exploring. Measures your openness to new experiences and curiosity about the unknown. High scorers seek novelty, enjoy experimentation, and value the journey itself.
  • Low Law-Abiding. Measures your commitment to ethics, rules, and fairness. High scorers value honesty, follow procedures, and prefer environments with clear moral guidelines.
  • Low Creating. Measures your inclination toward original thinking and artistic expression. High scorers generate innovative ideas and find rigid structure limiting.

These are what the occupation’s profile says, not a hiring criterion. Haliscope is not validated for hiring or screening, and none of these is disqualifying — they are where a fit most often breaks.

Getting in

Entry education: Graduate or professional degree.

Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

O*NET Job Zone descriptions, U.S. Department of Labor.

Exposure to AI

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