Employment Trends

By: CareerCast.com

While many career fields are booming in 2012, it does not come as much of a surprise that two fields are topping all the rest, healthcare and computers.

The healthcare industry will forever be the place to develop a career in and that is for two reasons. One, with an increasingly large aging popluation, people want to stay healthy and live as long as they can and two, with growing technology in medical science, there are more options available to everyone to do just that.

The computer industry has really started to grow since the birth of the internet. However, in today’s world of technology, online marketing has become the career choice for many. This means that computer companies are becoming more competitive each year and obviously, people are needed to run those computers.

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By: CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index

As the holiday bustle rose in December, hiring levels fell 8.4 points, according to the CareerCast.com/JobSerf Employment Index. This seasonal decline landed the employment index at 95.1 in December and -4.8 points behind activity levels of last December. The overall index is still trending positively as managerial hiring activity is nearly 30 points higher than it was in December, 2008.