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Top Five Bachelor Degree Occupations with the Most Job Growth Post-Recession

The competition for educated, specialized labor has intensified as market demands increase in both the services and manufacturing sectors. Job growth in 2013 is likely to follow similar patterns of the last few years. While it’s probably no surprise that technology and engineering skills are in high demand, companies will increasingly look to add headcount for  production-related fields, marketing, health care and financial services.

Occupations requiring bachelor degrees that have produced the most jobs post-recession include the following:

1) Software Developers (Applications and Systems Software)

  • 70,872 jobs added since 2010, 7% growth

2) Accountants and Auditors

  • 37,123 jobs added since 2010, 3% growth

3) Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists

  • 31,335 jobs added since 2010, 10% growth

4) Computer Systems Analysts

  • 26,937 jobs added since 2010, 5% growth

5) Human Resources, Training and Labor Relations Specialists

  •  22,773 jobs added since 2010, 5% growth

This study uses Economic Modeling Specialists’ (EMSI) rich labor market database, which pulls from over 90 national and state employment resources and includes detailed information on employees and self-employed workers. EMSI is a CareerBuilder company.

For a more in-depth look at the jobs outlined in this post, visit the EMSI blog.

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Stephanie Gaspary

About Stephanie Gaspary

Stephanie Gaspary joined CareerBuilder’s corporate marketing department in 2006 as the manager of the marketing communications team. She was responsible for launching CareerBuilder’s first employer blog, The Hiring Site, and was an early champion for using social media as a communications channel to reach both our employer and job seeker audiences. In 2010 she was promoted to director of social strategy and creative services, overseeing CareerBuilder’s 100+ social accounts, establishing social listening and engagement strategies and leading creative execution for both corporate and consumer audiences. Within this role she was able to reshape how we messaged our consumer audiences, knowing many were seeking new opportunities in a very uncertain job market. Stephanie has the ability to understand our customers’ needs and create opportunities to share the CareerBuilder story with any audience through clear and meaningful communication, creative strategies and branded execution to maximize awareness, generate preference and incite action. In Stephanie’s current role, managing director of content strategy, she continues to streamline how we message, educate and interact with job seekers, through our public marketing and communication channels and our paid client services portal channels. Stephanie is also responsible for consumer products, looking for new opportunities to present relevant offers to job seekers throughout their career lifecycle. Stephanie holds an Master's in Business Administration and a Master's in Management - both from North Park University. Connect with Stephanie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sgaspary or on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sgaspary.
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