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Forestry Professor

Forestry Professor profiles score highest on Helping and Analyzing. 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
$101,420per year, U.S. BLS 2025
Entry education
Graduate or professional degreetypical for the occupation

SOURCE · O*NET 25-1043.00 and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Figures are national and vary widely by state and setting.

What the work involves

Teach courses in forestry and conservation science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Skills rated most important

Instructing81
Learning Strategies78
Reading Comprehension78
Writing78
Active Learning75

Work context

Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams95
Contact With Others87
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled81
Spend Time Sitting62
Spend Time Standing45
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled40
Spend Time Walking or Running28
Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance18
Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body13
Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling9
Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles5

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

The trait profile

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

Helping89
Analyzing81
Exploring79
Law-Abiding57
Harmonizing55
Persevering53
Operating50
Organizing39
Creating37
Safety-Seeking35
Influencing25

Who it fits, and who it doesn’t

Strong signals

  • High Analyzing. Measures your drive to understand systems and solve problems. High scorers are knowledge-seeking, strategic thinkers who enjoy investigating and finding solutions.
  • High Creating. Measures your inclination toward original thinking and artistic expression. High scorers generate innovative ideas and find rigid structure limiting.
  • Moderate Influencing. Measures your drive to lead, persuade, and shape outcomes. High scorers are confident communicators who naturally take charge and direct others.
  • Moderate Organizing. Measures your preference for structure, detail, and systematic processes. High scorers excel at creating order, optimizing workflows, and maintaining precision.
  • Moderate Exploring. Measures your openness to new experiences and curiosity about the unknown. High scorers seek novelty, enjoy experimentation, and value the journey itself.
  • Moderate Harmonizing. Measures your focus on group cohesion and interpersonal peace. High scorers build consensus, facilitate cooperation, and prioritize team harmony.
  • High Law-Abiding. Measures your commitment to ethics, rules, and fairness. High scorers value honesty, follow procedures, and prefer environments with clear moral guidelines.

Friction points

  • Low Analyzing. Measures your drive to understand systems and solve problems. High scorers are knowledge-seeking, strategic thinkers who enjoy investigating and finding solutions.
  • Low Creating. Measures your inclination toward original thinking and artistic expression. High scorers generate innovative ideas and find rigid structure limiting.
  • Low Law-Abiding. Measures your commitment to ethics, rules, and fairness. High scorers value honesty, follow procedures, and prefer environments with clear moral guidelines.

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

How much of this work AI can already do, and how much AI tools help the people doing it, is scored task by task in the AI Risk Index.

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