5 Industries With High Hiring Projections for 2024
Identifying industries with high growth potential is crucial for job seekers and professionals looking for career advancements. As we are nearing the start of 2024, several industries stand out with promising trajectories for hiring and professional development.
Understanding these sectors and their anticipated growth can provide valuable insights for those navigating their career paths. Let’s delve into an exploration of the industries that are projected to experience substantial hiring surges based on Bureau of Labor Statistics ’ (BLS).
Healthcare
The healthcare industry consists of a wide list of professions dedicated to the well-being and care of individuals. These are doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical researchers, healthcare administration, and therapists, including medical professionals that handle their own practice.
As per the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) recent press release , the healthcare industry appears to be one of the biggest (if not the biggest) sectors to have an increase in new jobs between 2022-2032 – at 45%.
Some of the specific positions to have the most significant increase are personal care aides, nurse practitioners, and medical & health services managers:
“The health care and social assistance sector is projected to not only grow most rapidly of any sector, but it is also projected to create about 45 percent of all the projected job gains from 2022 to 2032. Various healthcare occupations that are involved with the increased care of the aging population are projected to experience large and rapid employment increases. Home health and personal care aides, nurse practitioners, and medical and health services managers are three occupations that are projected to experience both large increases in employment and rapid growth.”
– Bureau of Labor Statistics
Transportation and Warehousing
The transportation industry involves the movement of goods and people from one place to another. This sector encompasses various modes of transportation, including air, road, rail, sea, and even pipeline systems.
As the whole world witnessed the boom of almost every online business, the increase of the number of e-commerce stores after a few years is not a surprise. It is projected to add around 570,000 new jobs, and make a 0.8 percent annual growth from 2022 to 2032. And its direct recipient is the transportation and warehousing/storage industry.
Some specific occupations that will be seeing this increase are shipping, couriers and messengers industry and the warehousing and storage industry.
“Growth in e-commerce is expected to drive employment growth in the transportation and warehousing sector. BLS projects this sector to grow 0.8 percent annually from 2022 to 2032, adding close to 570,000 jobs over that period. The couriers and messengers industry together with the warehousing and storage industry account for about 80 percent of this sector’s projected job growth.”
– Bureau of Labor Statistics
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