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Posted: Apr 06, 2010

Career Tools > Career Articles > Future Careers: What's Hot, What's Not

Future Careers: What's Hot, What's Not

 
by Gina Pogol, FindtheRightSchool.com
 
Preparing for a career is a serious business, and the wrong choice can be costly. You don't want to graduate after several years' work only to find that your industry has relocated to China. Technology has affected labor markets in two ways: First, companies jumped on labor-saving devices and processes that allowed them to increase productivity while decreasing labor requirements--that's why the only typesetters and telephone operators you see these days are in the movies. Second, unskilled jobs that were more difficult to automate have been moved overseas.

So what will tomorrow's in-demand jobs be--and which jobs are on their way out?

Not hot: data entry, customer service, and collections
As companies look for ways to save on labor costs, more of them are off-shoring entry-level "knowledge worker" jobs such as customer service, collections, and data entry. Many of these jobs can be handled remotely from countries like India, where English is widely spoken and the educational system is good. The trend is for English-speaking countries with low labor costs to pull these formerly lucrative jobs out of North America.

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jobs - I know

[ In Reply To ..]
I talked to a girl at a call center in the Phillipines the other day. She said her name was "Brittany". lol Guess they are becoming Americanized.

I saw a show on t.v. about these call centers in India, etc. - Anon

[ In Reply To ..]
They "give them" American names. This one Indian guys name was something like Magharan and when they answer the phones he calls himself "Mark"

Who is trying to fool who here?

Hmm... maybe on my next resume I should give my - name as Ravinder Gupta. Maybe that way

[ In Reply To ..]
I'll be able to land a job.


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