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Bureau of Labor Statistics Top Ten list of occupations with the greatest growth in the number of jobs over the next decade

Posted by con_carne Jan 5 '10, 09:42

Top 10 List

Dixie Sommers, assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, recites a list of the 10 occupations that the BLS expects will provide the greatest number of new jobs over the next decade. These include:

1. Registered nurses

2. Home health aides

3. Customer service representatives

4. Food preparation and serving workers

5. Personal and home care aides

6. Retail salespersons

7. Office clerks

8. Accountants

9. Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants

10. Postsecondary teachers

Six of the top seven fastest-growing occupations are low-skill, low-wage jobs.

Katz says the challenge is to move those jobs up the skills ladder. There's no reason, he says, that home health care workers couldn't be better educated to provide patients with greater value and, as a result, command higher wages to improve their own living standards.

Full story at NPR (www.npr.org)

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The number of people enrolling in computer science at my old college was so low ... that they cancelled the entire program for 2010. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 09:56 4
- The program at my college is still going very strong, and CS majors are getting nice cushy jobs. - Hotkiss Jan 5, 09:58 1
  - right out of school, yes. When they reach 40ish and demand more money, that's when the jobs get outsourced. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 10:05
- Ugh. Is there an understanding that these jobs are leaving the US for places like India? -- nm - con_carne Jan 5, 09:57 1
  - A guy from India, who claimed to have a PHD, tried to take my position last year. I wasn't impressed. -- nm - scorpion Jan 5, 10:10
what are ten things that I completely suck at? -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 09:56 4
- is this a poll? -- nm - Beaker Jan 5, 09:57 1
  - we'd have to make it more than ten. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 10:04
- you don't think you'd make a good customer service rep? -- nm - TFox Jan 5, 09:57 1
  - I can force myself to do it but I'm not a people person (this will shock you all, I"m sure). -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 10:01
But there's not much you can do to raise the bar on food prep or retail salespersons unless you're willing to pay more than minimum wage -- nm - Hotkiss Jan 5, 09:44 2
- I'm not sure why I included that last bit. I guess to make that list look less depressing. - con_carne Jan 5, 09:51
- and there is always an unlimited supply of low-skilled workers to take the place of anyone who thinks they are above those tasks - znufrii Jan 5, 09:47

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