Is it really possible to have a recession-proof job? The job search experts at Jobfox seem to think so.
The firm today issued a study that looked at the professions that have most consistently remained in highest demand over a more than eight-month period dating from November 2007 through July 7, 2008. The good news for those trying to find work in the technology field was that high-tech jobs held down the most Jobfox Top 20 most recession-proof professions including Software Design/Development, Networking/System Administration, Business Administration (Software Implementation), Testing/Quality Assurance, Database Administration and Technology Executive.
Jobfox states that the top 20 most recession-proof professions are:
1.Sales Representative/Business Development
2.Software Design/Development
3. Nursing
4. Accounting & Finance Executive
5. Accounting Staff
6. Networking/Systems Administration
7. Administrative Assistant
8. Business Analysis: Software Implementation
9. Business Analysis: Research
10. Finance Staff
11. Project Management
12. Testing/Quality Assurance
13. Product Management
14. Database Administration
15. Account/Customer Support
16. Technology Executive
17. Electrical Engineering
18. Sales Executive
19. Mechanical Engineering
20. Government Contracts Administration
Software engineers are expected to be among the fastest-growing occupations through 2016, according to the U.S. Labor Department and tougher accounting and auditing regulations are mostly responsible for continued growth of accounting and finance functions, Jobfox said.
The Jobfox survey comes on the heals of yet another study that said IT jobs are hot, particularly in Seattle and New York. That survey said 50 of the 60 cities in a wide-ranging survey had high-tech job growth in 2006, the latest year data were available.
Seattle added the most jobs at 7,800, followed by the New York Metro Area, which added 6,400 and Washington, DC, which added 6,100. Riverside-San Bernardino saw the fastest job growth in 2006 at 12% according to the American Electronics Association's (AeA) Cybercities 2008: An Overview of the High-Technology Industry in the Nation's Top 60 Cities report that looks at all things related to high-tech employment, from wages, establishments, payroll, employment concentration, and wage differential.
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Heh. Most of these jobs are
Heh. Most of these jobs are being off-shored faster than you can say "Bangalore", particularly SAs, network admins, DBAs, and software development.
Um... Not Really
Go to Dice.com or Craigslist and look at which jobs are most abundant here in the states. It's software Development and DBA's. Most people don't realize that not all software development and DBA tasks can be outsourced with ease.
IT jobs plentiful who are you fooling???
Since the legalization of NAFTA manufacturing and service jobs are fleeing the United States for the cheapest price with the highest profit margin. This will eventually make the united states a third world country. The recession/depression was in part the cause of sending manufacturing and service jobs out to the cheapest bidder for profit.
Recession Proof?
Wow! This intensive research report spans a massive EIGHT MONTHS. Because we've had like... 3 or 4 recessions during that time, right?
What a joke. Every single job on this list is like A#1 to get fired ASAP when the shiznit hits the fan. It's precisely because IT jobs are "hot" right now which indicates they will not be the jobs to survive an economic downturn.
Recession Proof - Ha
The only job on the list that has a chance of being recession proof is "Nursing". The health care industry is not looking for nurses and nurse's aids. The engineering jobs are somewhat protected until someone cheaper comes along. Get your head out, we have been sending everything off shore. Until we start bringing jobs back to the United States soil no job is recession proof except "service" connected workers.
Recession Proof - Ha
The second sentence should have read - The health care industry is "NOW" (not) looking for nurses and nurse's aids.
Agree that research methodology is suspect
For this claim of "recession-proof" jobs to have legitimacy, I would expect the sample period to have covered 8 recessions, not just 8 months of what appears to be arbitrary time. Additionally, how many recessions occurred during this 8 months? This all begs the question of who this survey is serving.
The Top 20 most recession-proof jobs
your job list sounds more like people who obfuscate in order to receive a paycheck than people who actually do some real work. coming from a country outlook( I live near Elizabeth city, NC North east north Carolina. look on a map.please!)all the people i know do something manual. construction, restaurant, automotive. this list reinforces the notion that most city folk can't do anything with someone to do it for them.
I met a girl from California about a month ago and she bemoaned the fact that no one here needed personal assistants. what does an assistant do? I sure don't know and neither does anyone else who doesn't move in circles