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Whole new careers are being created almost daily, it seems.
Advances in medicine, the Internet, robotics and other new technologies
keep expanding the options for your future career. Now you can choose
to be a cytotechnologist or an XML developer, a change manager or an
undersea medicine physician, along with hundreds of other new and traditional
careers.
All this can make planning for your future career seem a little overwhelming. To help, government and private agencies have produced a wealth of research on what tomorrow's job market will be like. Since predicting future job trends is not an exact science, there are some differences of opinion. But let's look at some trends many experts agree on.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer-related careers will continue to be hot. Its top five fastest growing occupations through 2008 are:
Of course how fast a career is growing doesn't tell the whole story. Though desktop publishing specialists will grow 73 percent, the total number of additional jobs is only 19,000. On the other hand, retail salespersons, cashiers and general managers /top executives are each expected to add more than half a million new jobs, though their growth rates are less than 20 percent.
Experts also predict that the health care field will continue to grow as the Baby Boomers grow older and as medical advancements continue. Half of the top 25 fastest growing occupations are in health care, from medical assistants (58 percent growth) to physician assistants (48 percent), from medical records technicians (44 percent) to respiratory therapists (43 percent). Registered nurses are expected to add 450,000 jobs, the seventh largest job growth, though this is "only" a 22 percent increase.
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