What Job is highest in demand in this market and what job is least in demand?
“Overall, according to Job Outlook 2008, an annual survey of college recruiters, employers plan to hire 16 percent more new college graduates in 2007-08 than they did in 2006-07.” According to http://www.jobweb.com/studentarticles.aspx?id=1219 .
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the job market is changing.
Technology, engineering and business administration and management degrees are in high demand. Also computer science, information technology.
Many of the jobs of today that are in the hottest markerts didn’t even exist in their present forms 20 years ago.
Highest in demand? Public Accountants, especially CPAs, Senior-Level Administrators, Lead Applications Developers (top level computer programmers), Attorneys (believe it or not, some say there are TOO many lawyers, but not according to the job market), and Web Design Professionals.
Least in demand and or declining? Factory jobs, More and more manufacturing jobs continue to be shipped overseas. Unskilled labor is cheap and it is cheapest in third world countries.
What to do then if you have just been laid off from a factory job? Consider retraining. Take the bull by the horns. Regardless of your education, if you have a computer, learn to do something with it besides play games and send emails. Work through your state unemployment office for possible financial aid for educational retraining.
Don’t discount the computer field. Web designers and computer programmers are in high demand. These are things you can learn to do easily if you are open minded and have a logical bent to your nature. Have a can do attitude,
Be honest with your creditors and collect unemployment for as long as you can should you find yourself unemployed with little hope of getting a job similar to the one you have just lost.
Write a good resume. If you don’t know how, surf the web, there are countless examples and articles out there to help you. Your unemployment office can help you in this no doubt as well.
Get up each day and LOOK for work. Monday to Friday, 8 hours a day. Consider it your job and take it seriously. Attitude is 90 % of finding a new job. Buy a new “interview” outfit. Dress for success, they say. It works. Don’t wear sneakers to an interview. When you have an interview with a company, find their web site before the interview and learn everything about them. As questions in the interview about the company, not about how many vacation days you get, or ho many sick days.
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