Jobs That Should Survive the Recession
Amongst news of lay-offs and increasing unemployment, it’s a difficult time to be choosing a career path. According to GE Miller at Mint, there are a few key areas that are a sustainable place to be looking for employment, both now and in the coming decades. The suggestions for safe, recession-proof job types are:
- Customer contact / sales representative positions: This might come as a surprise, but the thing is that when people are buying less or have less to spend, then companies actually need more sales people. So despite the coming of age of the internet, many experts believe that face-to-face sales people and jobs involving customer contact will have an important place now and in the future.
- Environmental jobs: Study engineering that can be put to use in solving global warming and green energy problems and you should be highly employable.
- Information technology / computer programmers / Network administrators: As you can imagine, there’s no end in sight for new contributions to this industry and IT graduates should happily find work from now and on into the next decades.
- Health care: The aging population is going to need a lot of extra health care, and they won’t just need doctors. Home aides and aged care workers will also be in high demand.
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