Long-Term Employment Trends: Government Projections

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released “Tomorrow’s Jobs” in December of 2007. Its projections appear to be right in line with current employment trends. This report is the department’s best estimate of the long term employment outlook for the entire period from 2006-2016.

Most useful for career planning purposes is this chart, depicting the fastest growing occupations:

and this one, (below) showing occupations with the largest numeric increases:

As you can see, technology and health care occupations out-pace all other jobs. Also, notice the job categories in the tech sector are a bit more selective than in the BLS’ monthly jobs reports, (which lump all technology jobs together into one huge category) with separate categories for “Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts” and “Computer Software Engineers, Applications.” The bureau predicts the least popular future jobs to be in the manufacturing and farming, fishing, and forestry industries.

For more information, read the whole report, and don’t forget to also keep up with Employment Trends here at Careers.Org.