Follow the Opportunity
The world is hiring, and it needs YOU!
Just getting started on the professional career search?
Looking to make a career transition all together?
Well, it's with some sadness and a bit of reluctance that it's time to hit pause on the "follow your passion" mindset. Instead, swing open the door that leads to current vibrant hiring sectors, and real work opportunities.
Follow the opportunity.
With so many businesses calling people back to the office and with a growing emphasis on skills-based hiring, it seems more structure and pragmatism, along with employers seemingly having the upper hand, is what's trending in the world of hiring.
Simply stated ... Who's hiring?
So yes, go there.
Follow that.
It's easy to start with a cursory focus on your major, and even past jobs, but then shift your focus and zero in on your unique skill(s) set that can transfer to a variety of job opportunities.
So let's get to it.
Who's hiring and how might you find your opportunity there?
Bio/Tech - Clinical research, data analyses, genetic engineering, and compliance projects are all career positions on the rise.
Majors: Pharmacology, Env Sci, Genetics, Bio, Data Analysis
Green Jobs/ Renewable Energy - The green engineering sector is definitely booming. Solar, wind, sustainability, and more fluid design & innovative solutions to current and future environmental challenges are in high demand, Analytical thinkers, responsible, ethical corporate leaders, and corporate investment policy makers is a growing need.
Majors: Engineering, Geology, Geography, Sustainability, Policy & Law, Ag Sci
Health Care - Mental health, equity and access, adolescent anxiety & depression, and aging populations are sectors in high demand. Re-working antiquated charting, appointment and prescription systems as well as re-imagining what tele-health can and cannot effectively and efficiently provide is a growing need. Determining the psychology and access on how best to reach and treat high demand populations (youth, seniors, LGBQT) is a coveted skill.
Majors: Health Sci, Nutrition, Bio, Kines, Social Work, Psych
Business/Finance - As companies navigate economic changes, businesses involved with risk management, FinTech (Financial Technology) designing financial solutions, and new sales techniques are having their moment.
Majors: Econ, Accounting, Finance, Info Systems, Marketing
Education / Training - This is a rebuilding time for educators and their institutions, post pandemic, which suffered a substantial drop in retaining educators, and a significant drop in overall school morale, mental health and safety. Lots of opportunity here to write new curriculum, introduce and innovate programs to support the mental health of our youth, as well as find strategic ways to make college accessible for more people.
Majors: Child Dev, Special Educ, Communications, Psych, Curriculum Dev, Financial Planning
Communications / HR — (in almost any sector) efforts to reinvent enticing and competitive employment packages with people returning back to in person work is a valuable skill. An opportunity to re-imagine new perks to attract and retain top talent. Developing equitable DEI compliance programs for the workplace in also on the rise.
Majors: Psych, Bus Admin, Org Behavior, Marketing, Media Studies
Engineering / Construction - Skilled labor as well as strategic project management is needed to shore up infra-structure, roads, aging plumbing & electrical systems in all of our cities. Green building is also here to stay.
Majors: All engineering - civil, electrical, mechanical, architecture, const management
Dive in and tease out your unique skill set — from analytical, creative, forecaster, connector, systems thinker, to collaborator the world is hiring and it needs you!