Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Career & Job Tips
Job-hunting tips from the February 3, 2003 issue of
QuintZine.
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What careers pay the most in the U.S. right now? Check out the list of the
25 highest paying occupations
on Career InfoNet. The site offers other useful information on employment trends
-- for example a prediction of 100 percent growth in only one career: computer software engineers/applications. Want to know what
occupations are predicted to have the most openings? The top four are retail salespersons; combined food preparation and serving workers,
including fast food; cashiers, except gaming; and waiters and waitresses. In the top 25 with the most predicted openings here are the ones with
the highest median pay: registered nurses ($42,200); general and operations managers ($57,500); elementary school teachers, except
special education ($41,000); secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education ($41,200); sales representatives, wholesale
and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ($42,200). Other careers in the top 25 predicted to have the most openings and
that provide pretty good incomes are: truck drivers for heavy and tractor-trailer rigs ($21,800 to $47,500); computer support
specialists ($24,900 to $57,900); first-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers ($16,400 to $44,800).
A report on Good Morning America provides some information that overlaps the above and provides some
new information about Hot Top 8 Fields right now.
Pharmacists -- Salary $71K with 5,000 open positions currently.
Electricians -- Salary $37K + lots of overtime with a currently need for 80,000 workers.
Truck Drivers -- Salary $30K with a 10-20 percent increase in need predicted by 2010.
Privacy Officers -- Salary $40-80K.
Security Guards -- Salary $18K with a greater demand for security post-Sept. 11.
Airport Screeners -- Salary $29K with particular demand for women, because of a 50 percent quota that must be met.
Mortgage Broker/Banker -- Salary $42K.
Teacher -- Salary $40K with a need for 2.4 million teachers predicted by 2012.
Company of Friends (CoF), Fast Company magazine's readers' network, is a global online and offline community of
self-organizing groups of forward-thinking business leaders and innovators. Members help each other improve their careers,
companies, and communities. Groups formerly were organized based on geography, but new groups based on industries and
interests are also now part of the mix. While these new industry- and interest-related CoF groups are online discussion groups
first and foremost, most of the geographically organized, local CoF groups schedule frequent face-to-face gatherings
to update each other on current business activity, discuss common challenges, develop personal and professional skills,
and leverage resources and tools within the group. CoF groups also schedule speaker series or member-led presentations on
themes and topics addressed in recent issues of Fast Company. Members also communicate via email and online discussion forums.
