Best Jobs For The 21st Century

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Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., is one of America's leading occupational experts and appears regularly on national news programs and in major print publications to share his expertise about trends in the world of work. He is a Senior Product Developer at JIST Publishing, has 30 years of experience in the career information field, and is an award-winning career information systems developer.

Presents an overview of more than five hundred job descriptions for careers with the best pay, fastest growth, and most openings as well as lists of best jobs based on education level, interest, and personality type.

Lists 281 of the most popular, fastest-growing, and highest-paying jobs for college graduates

The Top 100: The Fastest-Growing Careers for the 21st Century, Fifth Edition gives readers the inside scoop on jobs projected to experience the fastest growth, the greatest opportunity, and the best earnings through 2018, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor. This informative resource examines a wide range of industries, including computers, education, engineering, finance, food, health care, and more, as well as job opportunities at various levels of skill and education. Each job article describes the job duties; required education, training, and skills; expected earnings; and much more. An introduction explains how the jobs were selected and includes overviews of the most popular career fields.

Organized by category, each entry provides a job description and responsibilities, potential earnings, advancement opportunities, education and training, experience and qualifications, and tips for one hundred careers.

Using up-to-date labor materials, this guide employs stringent criteria to help readers select the best jobs. Each position listed must pay $40,000 or more annually, generate at least 100,000 openings each year, or experience at least a ten percent growth by 2006.

For the past 50 years, the Occupational Outlook Handbook has been the most widely used and trusted source of occupational information -- anywhere! JIST's edition is a complete reprint of the original!