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Landing a Job of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' outlook for job growth between 2008 and 2018, there are several bright spots where new jobs and promising career paths are expected to emerge over the next few years. Technology, health care and education will continue to be hot job sectors, leading to new opportunities and new ways to leverage existing skill sets. While computer science and engineering are two degrees that will be in highest demand, job seekers will need to branch out and pick up secondary skills and keep up-to-date with emerging new trends. For example, career experts suggest combining computer science technical knowledge with secondary skills in Web marketing, user-experience design, green technology or healthcare informatics.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than two million new technology-related jobs will be created by 2018. The jobs that are expected to grow fastest include computer-network administrators, data-communications analysts and Web developers. In addition, data loss prevention, information technology, online security and risk management will also show strong growth. A computer-science degree and a working knowledge of data security are critical to landing these jobs. Common areas of undergraduate study for these fields include computer science, information science and management-information systems. Since these jobs will not be purely technical in nature, recruiters advise current computer-science students to combine their degrees with studies in marketing, accounting or finance.
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