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Welcome to BestFutureCareers.com

My goal here is to try to keep you up to date with the latest trends and statistics about future job trends in the United States, and provide both data and external resources to help you position yourself to compete for those new jobs. I have spent a considerable amount of time studying career trends, income statistics, and demographics in the United States. You might say I’m a bit of a stats freak. The good news is I’m happy to share what I’ve learned with you.

Here’s a sample of the kind of reporting you can expect from me. This is a piece I wrote this past summer for a well known article directory:

Best Future Jobs For the Next Decade
By William G Shultz
The best future jobs for the next decade for job creation with above average wages (as defined by higher than median wage as of 2006) according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) appear to be in health care, technology, education, and business support and operation functions. If you’re studying now and training to be in one of these fields then it’s likely you’re on a good path. Here’s a quick and dirty break-down of what professions can expect to see the most gains in employment in the next ten years. 

Excerpts from BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09
• Registered Nurses – Expected to increase workforce by 587,000
• Post Secondary Teachers / Professors – 382,000 new positions in the next decade
• Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants Job Descriptions - 239,000 new workers
• Career Accountant and Auditors – 226,000 positions created by 2016
• Computer Software Application Engineers – 226,000 jobs created

Rounding out the top ten best future jobs (all expected to add more than 100,000 new workers by 2016) are business operations specialists, elementary school teachers, truck drivers (heavy and tractor trailer), sales representatives, and management analysts.

Among these top ten best future jobs the 2006 median annual wages ranged from $35,000 per year for the truck drivers to over $79,000 for the software engineers. All of the top ten growth occupations in the outlook required at least some post-secondary education. There were only a handful of occupations in the broader study with high job creation of above average wage earners that only required a high school diploma.

References:
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Occupational Outlook Handbook (2008-09). Table I-5: Above-average growth and above-average wage occupations, by educational attainment cluster and wages, 2006 and projected 2016. From: Bureau of Labor Statistics web site: http://www.bls.gov/emp/optd/

That was an example of the sort of data we examine and sift through at BestFutureCareers.com, and there will be plenty more where that came from as I post more of the data and information I have accumulated over the last decade plus or so I’ve been doing this sort of research.

Again, welcome to Best Future Careers. Please take advantage of the resources I’ve pulled together for you, some of which are free (others are the cheapest I could find – feel free to share and/or suggest other resources). Please be advised that while some of the data may seem outdated, it actually tracks very well given the huge demographic momentum such trends have.