Where the jobs will be for this year’s grads
January 18, 2010 by Carin FordPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Post-college
The job market’s still looking bleak — but experts expect these fields to have the most openings over the next six years. Students graduating in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree may be able to find positions in the following fields, according to Collegeboard.com:
- Elementary, middle and secondary school teachers
- Accountants and auditors
- Network systems and data communications analysts
- Computer software engineers
- Computer systems analysts and administrators
- Securities, commodities and financial services sales agents
- Construction managers
For those coming into the job market with master’s degrees, postsecondary teachers, lawyers and doctors top the list.
And for grads with associate’s or vocational degrees, nursing will have the most job openings, followed by automotive technicians and mechanics and computer support specialists.
Take a look at the entire list and how many jobs are expected to be available over the years, by clicking here.
Do you think we’re doing a good enough job of preparing today’s students to go into the job market? Let us know in the comments section below.
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January 20th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
It’s weird they say teachers top the list. I know many many teachers that can’t find jobs in school systems because they are all cutting back and closing schools…maybe it’s just our area here in central ohio…I don’t know but I know many that can’t get jobs within school districts
January 20th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
The computing field has not been hit anywhere near as badly as in the 1990-91 or 2001-03 recessions. Most of our graduates are finding jobs by graduation … though the percentage is down somewhat in the last two years.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:25 am
I question this prediction. Everything that I am reading from reputable authoritative researchers tells a different story. For this to be a credible report, I would need to know the source of their survey, its composition and type of response.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:00 am
i too discount this story as media “happy talk” to avoid panic. i see a double-dip repression (of which we’re basically still in the first dip) probably leading to all out depression in 2011 – 2012. The corruption of lobbyists and Wall Street on what was once OUR government is now so blantant and complete as to make any change back to a Constitiutionally-based, fully transparent, Bill of Rights-based standard near impossible. The fact that Obama (whom i campaigned and voted for) failed to prosecute ANYONE in the Bush administration for any wrongdoing while continuing (indeed, expanding) Bush’s “war on terra” and selling out the health care bill to the Republicans and insurance industry (to mention a few of his failed campaign promises) and not eliminating the Patriot Act and many others has caused wide-spread dissatisfaction with BOTH parties as representatives of US, as opposed to the corporate sector (notably Wall Street and the ever-expanding military/industrial complex).
As a result we’re fast becoming a police state, our money is becoming worthless, and environmentally we’re in the beginning stages of what Wm. Catton describes as the next great die-off of humanity on this planet.
We are all being constrained by: the rampant use of finite resources of all kinds (among them being potable WATER and oil); steady non-diminishing pollution (see the Great Pacific Gyre, oil spills all over the place)causing dying coral and marine species, algae blooms and dead-zones, overfishing of the ocean and many other short-sighted or outright greedy policies by fishermen from all over the world; failure to change our ways when we could have in areas of farming, conservation and recycling; misuse and abuse of our environment rather than stewardship, and too many other human actions.
The earth has to adjust to these deleterious biological and chemical effects and has begun to do this an a consistent measurably increasing rate. No one has to make up “climate change”, the jellyfish knew it was real for a long while, while we blithely went along oblivious to scientists’ and others’ warnings (remember all the incidents of frog disappearance and mutation, bee colony collapse, butterfly population drop, migrating tree lines, long established wine-growing areas under stress, etc.?). The ice is melting.
Now the weather is becoming ever harder to predict with the accuracy we once had (based on out-dated climate MODELS), and is becoming more erratic, with droughts, floods, storms, and living conditions becoming stressed, not to mention our ability to grow FOOD for us all.
It’s gonna get ugly, soon, and it’s too late to avert it now.
January 21st, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Here are the BLS job predictions re Computer Science. But also check out the link regarding BLS forecast accuracy.
http://insidehpc.com/2010/01/04/computer-science-is-where-the-jobs-are/
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
This article does not change my plans for the future. I have wanted to be a doctor since i was about 5 years old and i dont think anything can change that. The medical field will always be in high demand no matter where you go.