Emerging Occupations

3D printing is one of the hottest emerging industries today. 3D printing is a new process that generates three-dimensional solid objects of any shape from a digital model. In some ways, it’s an advanced manufacturing process which builds objects by adding elements. The implications are huge: applications range from architecture to biotech to education, among many others. For now, people with an engineering, computer science, manufacturing or sales background are in demand. There are vacancies […]

College administrators in Boston, competing for students,  are tailoring new courses aimed towards emerging occupations. That’s according to a recent article from the Boston Globe. A database assistant didn’t want to move with her company to New York. Instead, “determined to stay in the Boston area, the 47-year-old mother of two entered Boston University’s graduate certificate program in database management to hone and expand her skills — and it paid off. A few weeks ago, […]

Journalism is simultaneously a declining and emerging field.  Oh great, you may say, just what I need: more uncertainty in my life.  The mainstream print  and broadcast media continues to shrink. Newspaper employment, for example, is down about 5% over the past year. Paradoxically, however the number of employed journalists is rising.   Over the past year, the number of “news-analysts”, reporters and correspondents is up 23%, according to analysis by South Mountain Economics and 21st Century […]