What is with the soil science job titles?
Why is it when I want to look for soil science jobs it’s under different titles like environmental Science? I know there is a shortage so I don’t understand why there aren’t more explicitly soil labeled jobs. It just seems like a ouroboros situation for feeding on itself. Labor shortage->change job title to something more main stream->less visibility for those who actually fit the job-> labor shortage for the right fit. It seems like the NRCS is one of the few explicit places where you actually have a soil job title. I wish we had something like where soil was mentioned in the meta data when looking on different job application websites or we had a more concrete job titles like Soil Scientist: Precision Agriculture, Soil Scientist: Carbon Sequestering, Soil science: Waste management, Soil:Data science. I feel when the shortages get worse, everyone is just going to go grab people from the nrcs since that’s one of the few places they are actually visible.
Is this being fixed anywhere or is there actually a close soil science job that’s main stream that I’ve missed? I want to be a soil scientist but I’m not confident on getting a job with how unclear things seem to be.
Posted Aug 14, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC