I recently browsed several websites dedicated to job searches and occupations with fast growing futures. After narrowing my search to the Wisconsin area, I was quite surprised as to what I had found. The data challenged my paradigm, quite frankly, as to what I thought about the fastest growing occupations. This is what I gathered:
Occupational opportunity of 25% or more growth (up to 45%) did not only reside in the IT or high-tech worlds, but also in the industrial and healthcare skills marketplace. Nursing and health specialties continue with upwards of 30% or more job opportunities in 2016. Medical Secretaries and Nurse Practitioners continued strong with about 27% more jobs predicted for the coming year. In 2015, there are 47,290 jobs open for Personal Care Aides and next year, a predicted 59,760 positions—a 26% growth.
Within that high-tech world, avionics and aerospace are strong with about a 37.5% job growth expectation with skilled manufacturing trades staying strong at about 25-27% growth rates.
Given that “high-tech” or the skilled technical positions continue in a strong growth mode, it is my observation that all of these jobs, in whatever category and/or discipline, demands of its labor-force talent a high degree of competency in computer skills, mathematics, and strong written and oral skill sets. All demand the discipline of education, the confidence derived from creative thinking and the required commitment in learning and exceeding expectations within one’s craft.
In these observations, words like teamwork, tenacity, flexibility, commitment and work continuity present themselves as a constant for sustained achievement. The employment market is open to those who seek to participate in it. All good and all within reach!
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Source: Staffing Industry Analysts
