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Occupations of the future
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Occupations of the Future A number of sources predict short-range and intermediate-ranges job growth figures for various countries by employment category, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the US. #Network systems and data communications analysts. The BLS estimates a 53% growth from 2006 to 2016. #Personal and home care aides. The BLS estimates a 50 growth from 2006 to 2016. #Computer software engineers, applications . The BLS estimates a 45% growth from 2006 to 2016. #Veterinary technologists and technicians. The BLS estimates 41% growth from 2006 to 2016 #Personal financial advisors. The BLS estimates a 41% growth from 2006 to 2016. Futurist predictions "According to Glen Hiemstra from Futurist.com, a professional consulting company, growth jobs of the near future will be clustered in three broad areas: Development and use of technology: This especially applies to communications and computing technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Additional areas will be energy technology and transportation. Response to fundamental demographic shift: The large youth population of the current decade, the increase of retirement and the impact of migration around the world will create the need for work in a variety of fields, from teaching to tourism, from job training to elder care. Helping society's organizations adapt: The pace of change that organizations face will increase both internal and external jobs in fields like communications, counseling, consulting, and training." Other predictions • Engineering Particularly in demand will be engineer-marketing analyst, i.e. the combination of the technical and economic or legal education as well as the working knowledge of a foreign language or a couple of them. • IT/Software Development/Hardware Development Nowadays a site can be regarded as a face of a company and a cover by which its reliability is judged. So, there is no surprise that a number of organizations are ready to pay quite a lot to be noticed by the Internet users. In this connection, the occupation of a web-designer comes to the forth. • Nanotechnologies This industry can be roughly divided into three main branches: microchip production, nano-robots and atomic engineering. Even now it is clear that the products of this sphere are getting more and more widespread in space engineering, food industry, medicine, etc. It is believed that the country achieving the nanotechnologies breakthrough will become a world leader. • Electronics and Biotechnologies Biotechnologies are widely used in agriculture when working out GM products, in molecular medicine, etc. • Customer Service One of the main features of the middle class growth is the necessity of the quality service. That’s why the growth rate of the service occupations will be increasing more than anything else. • Logistics • Ecology Environmental problems don’t seem to be solved in the foreseeable future. So, on the one hand the number of ecologists will rise and so will the range of their knowledge embracing chemistry, biology, physics and computer modeling. • Medicine - gerontology and rejuvenation Nowadays medicine has been successfully used the achievements of biotechnologies and electronics to fight aging. And more and more professionals are needed to work in this sphere. • Chemistry These experts will be in great demand in the sphere of energy working out the alternative sources of energy. 
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