15 Best Jobs for the Future

Even in a tough economy, some professions have a bright outlook for 2010 and beyond. According to O*Net, an online tool for career exploration and job search, we may see strong hiring in a number of professions. O*Net groups professions into one of five job “zones” based on levels of education, experience, and training necessary to perform the occupation. Here’s a sampling of professions trending upward in each of the five categories.

Zone 1: Little or no preparation

1. Food Preparation Workers

Job description: Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea.

Sample job titles: dietary aide, prep cook, food service worker, food service aide, dietary assistant, nutrition aide, food preparer, pantry cook, slicer

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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2. Landscaping and Grounds-keeping Workers

Job description: Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.

Sample of job titles: groundskeeper, outside maintenance worker, gardener, greens keeper, grounds worker, grounds/maintenance specialist, utility worker, grounds supervisor

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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3. Construction Laborers

Job description: Perform tasks involving physical labor at building, highway, and heavy construction projects, tunnel and shaft excavations, and demolition sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, clean up rubble and debris, and remove asbestos, lead, and other hazardous waste materials. May assist other craft workers.

Sample of job titles: laborer, construction laborer, cement finisher, construction worker, helper, post framer, curb and gutter laborer, drain layer, drop crew laborer, punch out crew member

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 2: Some preparation needed

4. Animal Trainers

Job description: Train animals for riding, harness, security, performance, or obedience, or assisting persons with disabilities. Accustom animals to human voice and contact; and condition animals to respond to commands. Train animals according to prescribed standards for show or competition. May train animals to carry pack loads or work as part of pack team.

Sample of job titles: trainer, dog trainer, horse trainer, guide dog instructor, agility instructor, dog and cat behavior specialist, guide dog mobility instructor, licensed guide dog instructor

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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5. Bill and Account Collectors

Job description: Locate and notify customers of delinquent accounts by mail, telephone, or personal visit to solicit payment. Duties include receiving payment and posting amount to customer’s account; preparing statements to credit department if customer fails to respond; initiating repossession proceedings or service disconnection; keeping records of collection and status of accounts.

Sample of job titles: collector, patient account representative, debt collector, account representative, collections manager, credit clerk, patient access specialist, telephone collector, accounts receivable specialist, biller

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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6. Customer Service Representatives

Job description: Interact with customers to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services and to handle and resolve complaints.

Sample of job titles: customer service representative, account manager, client services representative, account representative, customer service specialist, member services representative, hub associate, account service representative, call center representative

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 3: Medium preparation needed

7. Acute Care Nurses

Job description: Provide advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions such as heart attacks, respiratory distress syndrome, or shock. May care for pre- and post-operative patients or perform advanced, invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

Sample of job titles: nurse manager, nursing director, progressive care unit registered nurse

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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8. Correctional Officers and Jailers

Job description: Guard inmates in penal or rehabilitative institution in accordance with established regulations and procedures. May guard prisoners in transit between jail, courtroom, prison, or other point. Includes deputy sheriffs and police who spend the majority of their time guarding prisoners in correctional institutions.

Sample of job titles: correctional officer, corrections officer, jailer, detention deputy, detention officer, correctional sergeant, deputy jailer, booking officer, public safety officer

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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9. Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Job description: Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.

Sample of job titles: administrative assistant, executive assistant, executive secretary, administrative secretary, office manager, administrative coordinator, administrative aide, administrative associate, secretary

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 4: Considerable preparation needed

10. Accountants

Job description: Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, or other financial activities within an organization.

Sample of job titles: accountant, certified public accountant, staff accountant, accounting manager, cost accountant, business analyst, financial reporting accountant

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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11. Supply Chain Managers

Job description: Direct, or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, or financial forecasting services and activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service and safety. Examine existing procedures and opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Direct the movement, storage, and processing of inventory.

Sample of job titles: supply chain manager, supply chain director, supply chain vice president

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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12. Software Quality Engineers and Testers

Job description: Develop and execute software test plans in order to identify software problems and their causes.

Sample of job titles: quality assurance analyst, quality assurance director, software quality assurance engineer, software quality engineer, product assurance engineer, software test engineer

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed

13. Mental Health Counselors

Job description: Counsel with emphasis on prevention. Work with individuals and groups to promote optimum mental health. May help individuals deal with addictions and substance abuse; family, parenting, and marital problems; suicide; stress management; problems with self-esteem; and issues associated with aging and mental and emotional health.

Sample of job titles: therapist, counselor, correctional counselor, mental health therapist, case manager, mental health specialist, behavior support specialist, mental health program specialist, child care counselor

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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14. Physical Therapists

Job description: Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and decrease or prevent deformity of patients suffering from disease or injury.

Sample of job titles: physical therapist, home care physical therapist, pediatric physical therapist, registered physical therapist, rehabilitation services director

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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15. Treasurers and Controllers

Job description: Direct financial activities, such as planning, procurement, and investments for all or part of an organization.

Sample of job titles: controller, treasurer, business manager, finance director, chief financial officer, school treasurer, comptroller, business administrator

These Jobs are posted in last 7 days that shows it high growth in 2011.

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7 Tips for Baby Boomers Turning 65 in 2011

The oldest baby boomers accept amorphous to about-face 65 this year. High on their calendar should be signing up for Medicare. Boomers as well accept important Social Security and career choices to make. Actuality are seven tips for authoritative retirement decisions at age 65:

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Sign up for Medicare on time. You can aboriginal assurance up for Medicare during a seven-month window alpha three months afore the ages you about-face 65. Assurance up during the months arch up to your 65th altogether if you wish your advantage to activate the ages you about-face 65. (If your altogether is on the aboriginal day of the month, your advantage can alpha as aboriginal as the aboriginal day of the above-mentioned month.) If you don't assurance up for Medicare Part B during this antecedent acceptance period, your premiums may access by 10 percent for anniversary 12-month aeon that you adjournment enrollment. If you are still alive and covered by a accumulation bloom allowance plan at work, assurance up aural eight months of abrogation the allowance plan to abstain the penalty.

Schedule your chargeless physical. Alpha this year, Medicare provides a ancient chargeless concrete assay aural the aboriginal 12 months you accept Part B advantage by a doctor who agrees to be paid anon by Medicare. The appointment may cover a analysis of your health, eyes and claret burden screenings, apprenticeship and counseling about antitoxin affliction casework covered by Medicare, and referrals for analysis you may need. Other bactericide casework you may be able to get at no abroad bulk cover cardiovascular and breast blight screenings, cartilage accumulation measurements, and flu shots.

Delay Social Security until next year. While Medicare accommodation for 1946-born babyish boomers begins this year, they still will not authorize for the abounding bulk of Social Security allowances they are advantaged to. Boomers will accept to adjournment addition year, until age 66, if they do not wish their alms checks to be reduced. Retirees who affirmation Social Security this year if they about-face age 65 will get about 93.3 percent of their abounding account benefit, because they will be accepting payments for an added 12 months. Social Security payouts added access for anniversary year boomers adjournment claiming up until age 70.

Develop a retirement spending strategy. Afore you attempt into retirement, advance a plan for how you will absorb down your assets. Recognize that you will charge to pay assets tax on withdrawals from acceptable 401(k)s and IRAs and withdrawals from those accounts become appropriate after wards age 70ВЅ. Retirees who don't abjure the actual bulk will face a 50 percent tax amends on the appropriate abandonment amount. Also, accede abacus some inflation-fighting investments to your portfolio, such as Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), or some acknowledgment to the banal market, commodities, or absolute estate. "You are apparently bigger off aggravating to plan a little bit longer, balance some of the losses in your retirement plan, and let the bazaar do a little bit of the work," says Robert Baxter, CEO of Dryden Mutual Allowance Company in Dryden, N.Y., and a 1946-born babyish boomer who will about-face 65 in August 2011. "If you anticipate about retirement at 65, you may end up alive 20 or 25 added years and could abide your income."

Keep your job abilities sharp. Babyish boomers who haven't adored abundant to retire may charge to absorb several added years in the workforce. Accomplish abiding you breach on top of training and computer abilities and abide to accompany new projects and opportunities at work. You don't wish to get pushed out of the workforce afore you are a accessible to retire. Aswell accede alms to coach adolescent advisers and canyon forth your abilities to accessible workers aural your organization. "We accept all of this abundant acquaintance and ability in a lot of altered industries and anybody is traveling to retire and we're not casual it on to anyone," says Andrew Seybold, a 1946-born babyish boomer in Santa Barbara, Calif., who runs his own adaptable wireless industry consulting business. "I anticipate we owe it to humans afterward us to try to canyon some of that advice on to them."

Negotiate a new plan schedule. Instead of backward completely, abounding babyish boomers are absorbed in alive a added adjustable and beneath ambitious schedule. If asked about the activity changes they accept planned for the next few years, added than bisected (55 percent) of alive babyish boomers axis 65 this year say they are absorbed in acid aback on their plan hours, according to a contempo AARP analysis of 801 adults built-in in 1946. And about 15 percent of the retired babyish boomers plan to go aback to work. "People are traveling to use the guise of retirement to get a break, blow up, and about get accessible for a new appearance of life," says Marc Freedman, architect and CEO of Civic Ventures and columnist of the accessible book The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage amid Midlife and Old Age. "Retirement is acceptable a transition, rather than a destination. True retirement is traveling to get deferred to abundant after wards in life."

Plan your new life. Advance a plan for the activities you would like to try next. Babyish boomers axis 65 this year say their top priorities for the next few years are advancement their concrete bloom (84 percent) and spending time with ancestors (81 percent), AARP found. Other accepted planned retirement activities cover interests and hobbies (76 percent), accomplishing things you accept consistently capital to do (74 percent), and biking (61 percent). Although you may charge a blow after wards decades in the workforce, eventually you will wish to approach your energies and abilities into a new project.

Since backward in 1998, Doug Stanard, above CEO of bowling alleyway alternation AMF Bowling, stays alive visiting his grandchildren and alive a amusement acreage in Columbia, S.C., area he hunts and has a pond abounding with fish. "Most humans who breach alive don't see themselves as growing old," says Stanard, who will about-face 65 in November 2011. "It's alone if you get out of the battery and you attending in the mirror that you see yourself as 65."