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The
Best Jobs Lists
Best of the Best
These
lists used criteria most people consider important in
selecting a "best" job—high pay, high growth, and large
numbers of job openings. Of all jobs that met our criteria
for inclusion in the book, the ones on these lists had
the highest ratings.
Our
lists are designed to get you thinking about career options
in a variety of ways. We are not suggesting that all of
these jobs are good ones for you to consider—they are
not. But the lists present such a wide range of jobs that
you are likely to find one or more that will stand out,
and these are the jobs to consider most in your career
planning.
As
you look at these lists, just click on one of the jobs,
and CareerOINK will take you directly to that job's description.
Very cool.
Best
Jobs for Different Types of Workers
We
did some special analysis to create these lists. For example,
we sorted all 500 occupations in order of the percentage
of part-time workers employed in each. We then used those
with a higher percentage of part-time workers and ranked
them on a combination of pay, growth, and number of openings
to find those with the highest total scores. The lists
include:
Best Jobs for Different
Levels of Education, Training, and Experience
We
used the same categories for training and education the
U.S. Department of Labor now assigns to each occupation
for entry. These lists will help you identify jobs that
pay more or that are more interesting to you at your current
level of education—or can help you identify occupations
on the level of education a person has or is willing to
pursue.
Best Jobs Based on Interests
This
group of lists organizes the 500 best jobs into 14 interest
areas. You can use these lists to quickly identify jobs
based on your interests. The 14 interest areas used in
these lists are those used in the Guide for Occupational
Exploration. Below are lists of best jobs for five
interest areas.
Best Jobs Based on Personality
Types
These
lists organize the 500 best jobs into groups matching
six personality types. The personality types are Realistic,
Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
This system was developed by John Holland and is used
in the Self Directed Search (SDS) and other career
assessment inventories and information systems. Below
are lists of best jobs for three personality types.
How
do we come up with these lists?
The
beginning of a new millennium comes around only once in
a thousand years and it motivates many of us to think about
the future. This book uses employment projections through
the year 2010 to help you identify jobs with the best possibilities
for fast growth, high pay, and the most job openings. We
hope you find our approach interesting and we hope that
it encourages you to uncover possibilities for the future
that you may not have previously considered. JIST
publishes a book titled Best
Jobs for the 21st Century, which has many interesting
lists based on pay, interests, education level, personality
type, age, and many other criteria.
Deciding
on the "best" job is a choice that only you can
make. But objective criteria can help you identify jobs
that are, for example, better paying than other jobs with
similar duties. To create these lists, we ranked 1,027 major
jobs according to a combination of their earnings (given
twice the weight), growth, and openings. We then selected
the 500 jobs with the highest combined scores for use in
all of our lists.
The
book has lots more lists, and descriptions for all the jobs
on the lists, so make our authors happy and consider buying
the book to get the whole deal.
Best Jobs for the 21st
Century, Third Edition by Michael Farr with database work by
Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D.JIST Publishing
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