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Food Services Jobs Resource
Interested in food service? Careers in Food.com is the # 1 job board for food and beverage careers! With over 6,000 current food and beverage manufacturing jobs posted from hundreds of the industry’s top companies and recruiters, Careers in Food have grown to become, by far, the largest food and beverage industry specific job board on the internet.
Message to Women: Apply for More Tech Jobs
Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg: “These Jobs Pay More, There is More Job Security!”
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO & one of Forbes top five most powerful women, says, “The economic trends are super clear. The technical roles are in demand. Even in what is currently a very difficult situation for our country in unemployment. There’s a huge shortage of engineers who can build products like Facebook. And women need to have their fair share of those seats.” High tech jobs pay more and provide more security.
Courtesy of MentorNet and CBS News.
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Career Information – Fastest Growing Fields
According to recent surveys by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Top 20 list for fastest growing career fields are concentrated in the Health/Wellness and IT. Projected growth through 2018 indicates that Biomedical Engineering will be the highest % growth occupation followed by Network Systems and Data Comm analysts, Home health aides, Personal and home care aides, Financial examiners, Medical scientists, Physician assistants, Skin care specialists, Biochemists/biophysicists and Athletic Trainers.
Physical theapist aides/assistants, Dental hygenists, Vet techs, Dental assistants, Computer S/W applications engineers, Medical assistants, Veternarians, Self-enrichment education teachers and Compliance officers round out the next 10.
For most if not all of these career options training beyond a HS diploma or GED will be required, with many requiring education beyond a four-year degree. Liberal Arts majors should take heart in that graduate school admission officers in schools offering specific graduate degrees in technical areas often seek students with majors in the liberal arts due to their problem solving ability, communication skills and flexibility as long as basic prerequisites are met prior to formal entry into a specific program.
Healthcare employment website
Here are websites for nurses, etc., that might be useful for some of our alums.
Hot “Middle skill” Jobs here in MA
Massachusetts employers will need some 400,000 new workers through 2016 to fill jobs in the so-called ‘middle skill’ category – jobs that require more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree – according to a study released by a coalition of business, labor, and worker training groups.
Here are 10 “middle skill” jobs projected to be in demand in Massachusetts by the year 2016 that pay $50,000 a year or more on average.
http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/gallery/middleskilljobs/?s_campaign=8315
Sources: “Massachusetts’ Forgotten Middle-Skill Jobs” by the National Skills Coalition, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.