Industries and Professions

Christine Cooke 2

Curious to know how many of you, specifically education orgs, utilize these fields and how you are using them?  Any lists, tables or website resources you can share to figure out what should populate the lists.  

Alicia Barevich

We're an independent school, and yes, we use them. I'm not sure we leverage the data as much as we could, and many records are still missing one or both tags, but I've spent a fair amount of effort scrubbing these tables for our use, and applying tags whenever I see an obvious piece lacking.


My greatest struggle is when we get employment info - how much time should we spend to research what industry the organization is, and what profession a vague job title may fall under? Thus, tagging typically only happens when it's obvious (or occasionally by the constituent themself).


Most industry/profession lists out there are either too short or too long to be very useful for us. I've included our lists below.

Industries

Accounting

Advertising

Agriculture

Animal Science/Veterinary Medicine

Architecture

Art

Asset Management

Automotive

Aviation/Aerospace

Banking

Beauty

Broadcast Media

Business Management

Business Services

Chemical

Childcare

Communications

Computer Customer Service

Computer Hardware

Computer Software

Construction

Consulting

Counseling

Dentistry

Design

Distribution

Education

Educational Services

Energy Resources (oil, gas, etc.)

Engineering

Entertainment

Environmental Products & Services

Event Planning

Fashion

Film Production

Financial Services

Financial/Investment Services

Food & Beverage

Foundation

Funeral Services

Government

Graphic Design

Health Care

Health, Wellness and Fitness

Higher Education

Homemaking

Hospitals & Clinics

Human Capital

HVAC

Information Technology

Insurance

Interior Decorating/Design

International Relief & Development

Internet

Investment Management

Jewelry

Landscaping

Language/Translation

Law/Legal Services

Library Science

Logistics

Management

Management Consulting

Manufacturing

Market Research

Marketing

Media

Medical Technology

Military

Museums, Art Galleries, and Zoos

Music

Newspaper/Periodical

Nonprofit

Pest Control

Pharmaceutical/Pharmacology

Photography

Political Parties

Primary/Secondary Education

Printing/Publishing

Product Development

Professional Services

Property Management

Public Health

Public Relations

Real Estate

Records Management/Archives

Religious Institution

Research

Research/Development

Restaurants

Retail

Social Services (domestic)

Sports

Technology

Telecommunications

Television

Theater/Dance

Toys

Trade/Craft

Transportation

Travel Industry

Venture Capital

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

Writing

Cleaning Services

Advocacy Professions

Account Executive

Accountant

Activist

Actor/Performer

Actuary

Administrative Support

Administrator

Admissions Counselor

Analyst

Archaeologist

Architect

Archivist/Collections Manager

Artist (Visual)

Athlete

Attorney

Banker

Biologist/Biochemist/Biophysicist

Biotechnician

Board of Trustees Member

Broker

Bus Driver

CEO, CFO, etc.

Chairman

Chef/Cook

Chemist

Childcare Provider

Coach

Computer/High Technology

Conservationist

Construction/Contractor

Consultant

Counselor

Curator

Custodian/Janitor

Customer Service

Database Manager

Dental Hygienist

Dentist

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Larry Wheeler

We only record these when a position is known, or for our staff and faculty profiles.  While we would love to have an easy method to keep all of the employment information updated, it is not at the moment, and that makes reporting on Position, Industry, Profession, difficult.

 

Faith Murray

We don't use them for degree fields, mostly because our degree fields are already tracked under the Education tab. I have thought about using this field for classifying their current career field (as opposed to degree field), since less than a third of college graduates actually take a job in their degree field. Tracking their current career field would be challenging to stay on top of, but useful for customizing direct mail marketing pieces and for major donor prospecting (doctors making more money than veterinarians, for example).