Top 10 In-Demand Careers

Want to pursue an in-demand career with high-pay potential? Check out these 10 great options.

Are you thinking of going back to school to prepare for a hot career, but aren’t sure what to study?
Fortunately for you, we did a little homework and looked to the U.S. Department of Labor’s statistics to find 10 in-demand careers that yield high average earnings.
To get started, we used the Department of Labor’s median annual wage for all occupations ($45,230) and the average job growth rate from 2010 to 2020 (14.3 percent) as our measuring standards. Any career that didn’t meet at least these standards didn’t make our list.
Intrigued? Keep reading to learn more about 10 careers that rank above average in terms of job growth and the potential to pay.

Career #1 – Medical and Health Services Manager

2010- 2020 Job Growth: 22 percent*
Median Annual Wage: $86,400*
Average for Workers in the 90th Percentile: $147,890*
Average for Workers in the 10th Percentile: $52,730*

Are you interested in pursuing a managerial position and have a hankering for helping people get or stay healthy? A career as a medical and health services manager could be the perfect prescription.
In this type of role, you could find yourself in a hospital or a smaller health care facility like a doctor’s office, managing finances, staying up-to-date on health care laws, and helping develop the quality and effectiveness of delivering health care services, says the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Top 10 In-Demand Careers

7 Habits of Highly Successful Hiring Managers

7 Habits of Highly Successful Hiring Managers

Faced with the challenge of finding qualified candidates in a labor market where the demand often outweighs the supply, hiring managers don’t have it easy these days. That’s not to say, however, that they can’t be ‘Master of the Universe’ as ERE CEO Ron Mester noted during this keynote speech at the recent ERE Recruiting Conferencein San Diego, which focused on how hiring managers and recruiting leaders can maintain control in a rapidly changing workplace.

In a conference panel moderated by John Vlastelica, managing director at Recruiting Toolbox Inc., Yahoo’s Eric Stromberg, vice president of service engineering for search, and Groupon’s Julie Szudarek, vice president, spoke candidly about the tactics that enable them to successfully and consistently bring in top talent.
Based on what they had to say, I’ve assembled some of the best sound bites from the panel, and made a list of the following practices that have brought them success in their ability to attract, engage and retain top talent.

Seven Habits of Highly Successful Hiring Managers

1. They Understand That Interviews Are a Two-Way Street: “Candidates are interviewing us as much as we’re interviewing them.” It’s easy to forget that you, as the interviewer, are also in the hot seat, so be prepared to both sell your company and answer questions.
2. They Don’t Settle: “The cost of hiring someone bad is just so expensive. We can’t make mistakes in recruiting.” Indeed, research shows that bad hires cost companies as much as $50,000. So how do they avoid making hiring mistakes? One way is…
3. They Never Stop Recruiting: One of Yahoo!’s themes is “Always be recruiting,” according to Stromberg. Continuous recruiting has been shown to save companies time and money in the long-term. In a 2012 CareerBuilder survey, 72 percent of employers who recruit year-round said the practice reduced their time-to-hire, and 41 percent said it lowers their cost-per-hire.
4. They Focus On the Long-Term: “We go to classes and talk to students [about what we do and who we are]. We wanted to create awareness for students and bring our name out there,” says Szudarek. While this approach might not produce immediate results, it’s similar to the way some companies are taking a proactive approach to bridge the skills gap to ensure future success.
5. They Hire People Who Are Smarter Than Them: “Don’t be afraid to hire someone you think could be better than you.” Why? Not only does surrounding yourself with smarter people make you smarter, it’s also just like Vidal Sassoon says, “When you don’t look good, we don’t look good.” In other words, the smarter your employees are and the better they perform, the better you look.
6. They Hire Their Replacements: “You want someone who could have your job in the future, because that means you can move on in the future.”  Not to mention that workforce planning (as hiring people who have the potential to take over higher roles essentially is) is crucial for long-term, sustainable growth.
7. They Know That Great Candidates Are More Than Their Resumes: “[We] won’t sacrifice hard work or emotional intelligence. Show us you can learn.” Certainly skills are important, but as more companies struggle to find candidates with the right skill sets, many companies are finding alternative solutions to find the candidates they need – including hiring for potential and then training on the job.

10 Things that Define a Killer Resume

10 Things that Define a Killer Resume

Most of us, at some point in our careers, have applied to some job with some piece of flimsy paper called a resume. Sure, you may have poured your heart into it. You may have really wanted the job. But how do you know your resume got read? How do you know what kind of impression you made on the hiring team?
The sad truth is all employers skim resumes. If your resume doesn’t grab them by the “seat of their pants” (I wanted to write “balls”) within 15 seconds, you’re heading for the paper shredder.
So how do you skip the shredder and get noticed? How do you progress past the paper pile and land the joyous job interview? Simple. You only write the stuff hiring employers care about.

Here are 10 things that define a killer resume:

1. Your resume isn’t about you. It’s about how you fit the employer’s job requirements. Always organize and select your most relevant accomplishments, skills, and experiences for the position. The most effective resumes are clearly focused on a specific job title and address the employer’s stated needs.
2. Your resume must sell you in seconds. Show how you contribute to the position at a glance. Your resume is a failure if the employer doesn’t instantly see you have what it takes.
3. Your resume is a marketing tool, not a personal document. Sell yourself, not your life story. Leave the personal stuff off your resume and focus on the skills that sizzle.
4. Your resume highlights your accomplishments, not job duties or descriptions. Write your resume to emphasize what you did well, not what your duties entailed.
5. Your resume must focus on your future, not your past. Don’t become a historian by documenting your life in resume format. BORING. No one cares what you did in 1975. Seriously. See #1.
6. Your resume shows the skills you enjoy, not skills you have to use. Why focus on the stuff you don’t want to do? Highlight the skills you love! The Find Your Passion Worksheet (it’s not pervy, I promise) can help you identify your favorite skills.
7. Your resume is not a confessional. You don’t have to tell all. Who cares if you were on sick leave with 8 kids to feed. Stick to what’s relevant, important, and marketable. You need to land the job interview, not a guest appearance on Oprah.
8. Your resume must list the important facts first. Hiring teams will not stick around to find how the story ends.
9. Your resume must be free from grammatical and typographical errors. Errors and typos are a big no-no. Get someone to review and edit your resume before you apply to the job. Pobody’s Nerfect.
10. Your resume must have a clean layout. No one wants to read a garbled mess. If you can’t design your own layout, start with a template.

A killer resume increases the employer’s interest enough to land you a job interview. That’s it. A resume’s purpose is to get your foot in the door and take you to the next step. Hopefully, your next step won’t be to the dreaded paper shredder.

Resume Writing Series:

1. What is a Killer Resume?
2. 10 Resume Dos
3. 10 Resume Sins
4. Resume Anatomy
5. 6 Sucky Resume Words
6. 6 Resume Action Words
7. 8 Resume Keywords
8. 3 Resume Formats
9. Free Resume Examples
10. Free Resume Template