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Top 5 Industries For Jobs Right Now

Posted: 08/10/2012 8:11 am

It's the economy, stupid. Something both U.S. presidential candidates seem to be ignoring.

Despite what politicians may believe is a stupid economy, jobs is the #1 area that concerns people: Having one, getting one, holding one. After all, the economy is jobs, jobs, jobs.

With that in mind we at Taleee wondered, where are the jobs anyway? With our consensus engine we tallied them up and here are the results.

A perfect ad would be this:

Help Wanted: talented multi-tasker who can program our web app, perform CPR, answer the phone, sell our SaaS solution, and make sure the office Wi-Fi network runs smoothly.

If you match the above you would be in demand across all five of the top industries for jobs. Check out these slides to see which industries are hot for job seekers right now:

Healthcare is largest field for work right now
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Taleee's web-wide consensus of jobs shows healthcare with the #1 slot with 19% -- more than 1 million jobs -- open. Aging populations, sedentary lifestyles, and growing birthrates in developing countries all drive demand for workers in the field from nursing to doctors. Not only U.S. but worldwide demand.

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07:21 AM on 08/14/2012
Don't try Motorola or google right now. Googs is laying off 4000 after acquiring Motorola. So sad for those workers. Just proves that even liberal run businesses like google are heartless capitalists in the end.
12:04 PM on 08/12/2012
Absolute nonsense. Heathcare, no, unless you are a doctor, lower level jobs are going overseas or insourced with cheap foreign labor. Retail, lowest pay, and what jobs in the lowest level of consumer buying since the last depression. Sales, sure, working on commission and again selling what in an era of low buying power, Tech, absolutely not, outsourced completely, the only jobs around are temp jobs. Yes it pays well if you can find a job. Mostly gone to India. CEO as usual living in a cloud of prosperity and delusion.
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03:47 AM on 08/14/2012
Healthcare not good? Really? What about nursing? Isn't there demand everywhere for nurses?
10:42 AM on 08/12/2012
Retail is only a few hours a week, not enough money to fill your gas tank.
Agriculture is hiring so why not put that.
Most managers left retail as they took all incentives and bonuses.
When jobs go unfilled it is due to lack of pay and poor working conditons.
12:09 AM on 08/12/2012
WATER - PART 2.

Soup to Nuts - JOB creation begin with The Great American Water Project

What Americans will have is more money and better lives. Tired of being a third world person, join my business plan and get a job - hundreds of thousands of people will be hired within a year.

It time to manage this vital resource and put it use where needed.

Water = food = energy = jobs = economic boom time.

Capital injection in a good project usually yields good results. We are working with money.
There is room for investment and management.

Forget about the election. It does not matter who wins.

Everybody will be part of The Great American Water Project or they won't have a political career.

Donate. It's the "American" thing to do this year!

Bill Myers Reports
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07:41 AM on 08/13/2012
or maybe a desalination plant will do --------as they have in hawaii.
12:06 AM on 08/12/2012
The biggest employer in America is soon to be The Great American Water Project.

The Great American Water Project. Yes - WATER - the stuff that falls out to sky FREE and floods people to death that have too much of it; yet, they cannot seem to figure out what to do with it after it falls out of the sky and spills over the banks of rivers, etc.

Join with me on The Great American Water Project.

Water is basically free if you can catch rain, store it and use it where it is needed.

America did it with OIL - why not WATER? Every time I read the newspaper or see TV news -- it's all about water problems; too much here, not enough there.

Silly, but true. People just need a kick in the butt to jump start something.

Soup to nuts what America needs now is The Great American Water Project. It is job creation, energy generation, economy saver, drought solver, flood prevention and good business for all concerned.

With necessary planning, construction, logistics, cooperation, capital and US "people-power", we can plan for our nations water preservation, collection, storage, diversion and use where it is needed.

As founder of The Great American Water Project, I have already interested Congress in a plan that will change our Nation and this planet for better; no more planting crops and "praying" for rain, no more food shortages, no more assets lost to floods, no more energy shortages.

Bill Myers
10:39 AM on 08/12/2012
What website?
12:10 PM on 08/12/2012
Well unless it is yet another scam, we certainly need this. Forget an oil pipeline from Canada, we need a water pipeline, massive irrigation systems, desalinization plants, a lot more water conservation techniques, golf courses and lawns replaced with artificial 'grass', cistern systems installed in households to provide nonpotable water. Separation of potable and nonpotable water systems. Less federal regulation that is overkill and causing huge problems. We need to irrigate our large desert areas to produce more food, we are going to need that. I saw a house recently that was built with a roof designed to channel rain water into a cistern system, very good idea. we waste a lot of water. Also severe penalties for polluting water sources. Like confiscation of the corporation, felony charges for execs.
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09:14 PM on 08/11/2012
Biotech is the most wonderful industry. We don't even have enough people to do certain jobs. But the one downfall is the 2% unemployment rate.
12:51 PM on 08/11/2012
Another excellent career opportunity in CA, water treatment. Start with a hard hat, progress to white collar management jobs that pay as well as any corporate situation, plus excellent benefits. Although remaining an operator can yield very good salaries without the massive headache of management in a heavily regulated environment. Women and minorities can prosper rapidly. Community college courses set you up to take a civil service test, when passed make you a candidate for entry level water treatment operator jobs. Jobs Available is a booklet with many public service jobs, also the website Aqua. Job security, benefits including an excellent pension plan, upward mobility, without having to become a cubicle dweller. Some water plants are in the country, with reasonably priced real estate.
12:46 PM on 08/11/2012
A lucrative career for aspiring youth is Wide Area Network technology. If you can master it, there are many jobs that pay very well. You will always be in demand. After a few years of experience you can command at least $100,000 a year, maybe more. This is a specialty within network engineering with a severe shortage of capable people. Why? It's not easy.
11:47 AM on 08/11/2012
No coincidence that none of these are union controlled industries.
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08:42 AM on 08/11/2012
I'd anticipate that there will be a search for qualified electronic medical record keepers in the healthcare industry before too long.
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eilish
Life ain't like a box of chocolates
03:06 PM on 08/13/2012
Many of my friends have taken expensive classes for this only to discover they've been bilked, or cannot stand the boring, repetitive work. I've watched immigrants picking lettuce in AZ, I could stand a little boring/repetitive that paid halfway decently.
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03:19 AM on 08/11/2012
Only one engineering discipline mentioned in the BLS Fastest Growing Occupations out to 2020: biomedical engineer:

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_103.htm
Fastest growing occupations

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/most-new-jobs.htm
Most New Jobs : Occupational Outlook Handbook : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
08:38 PM on 08/10/2012
How about the energy industry with the ongoing drilling boom there are plenty of jobs for anyone willing to break a sweat.
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eilish
Life ain't like a box of chocolates
03:07 PM on 08/13/2012
My partner has been doing that for 20 years and I advise against it. God knows what chemicals he's been exposed to, and they pay is NOT that great. Oh, it's better than minimum and there is overtime, his company even has some fair bennies.

But it's a killer. I don't think he'll live long after retirement.
05:45 PM on 08/13/2012
Sorry, I have been in the business for over 30 years, and if he has been in it for 20 years, what does he do, otherwise the pay is well above the national average.Die, Die from what.I'm not sure you know what your talking about.
08:38 PM on 08/10/2012
Why dont you list petroleum engineering. Average starting salary out of college = $100,000

Oh thats right, we dont like oil companies.
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Gnomish
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11:32 AM on 08/12/2012
Could be because that industry is about to go into decline rather rapidly
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eilish
Life ain't like a box of chocolates
03:08 PM on 08/13/2012
It is?
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Two 'alves of coconut!
08:00 PM on 08/10/2012
I need something more traditional, mechanical-technical. I think the average office has way too much computer-stuff in it, also. You've got people swimming in useless information, giving themselves aneurysms trying to access it all Right Now. There is such a thing, as too much.
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eilish
Life ain't like a box of chocolates
03:12 PM on 08/13/2012
I worked as personal assistant to the GM of a public utility in Phoenix. For some reason (probably nobody else wanted to) I was assigned to do a year long study on the effects of electromagnetic energy and childhood cancers. What we did was measure the electromagnetic fields for certain distances out from major power lines in Phoenix and try to associate that with cancer problems among children nearby.

For a solid year I slogged around doing that, had a tekkie person assigned to me to help write the report (which was favorable, very little electromagnetic energy within as little as 6 feet away). It was read once then stuck in a drawer.

Paperwork whether computerized or not is just busy work and mostly useless.
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Robert SF
02:46 PM on 08/10/2012
"Help Wanted: talented multi-tasker who can program our web app, perform CPR, answer the phone, sell our SaaS solution, and make sure the office Wi-Fi network runs smoothly."
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Actually, that's what employers are looking for in just ONE worker. You'll see employers looking for someone who knows PHP and MySQL at a level of expertise high enough to develop "enterprise solutions," plus HTML5, CSS, Java, javascript, and keep the WiFi running, and be everyone's help desk, plus inventory all the office equipment and deal with the service side of it.

All that for $15/hour on a 1099.
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eilish
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03:12 PM on 08/13/2012
What's sad is, they're doing it because they can get it.