Best Jobs: 40 Best Fields for Your Career (PDF)

The field or industry in which you do your job affects your earnings, advancement, work satisfaction, and work environment. For example, a computer support specialist doing her job in an education setting has different working conditions and coworkers than a computer support specialist employed by a construction company. An editor employed in the medical field has different issues to learn than one in the investment field. A salesperson in advertising faces new challenges if he switches to selling equipment. A job in the right field may combine your interests, make work more enjoyable, and increase your salary and career growth.

This new book helps you choose the best fields and industries for any job. These fields include health, technology, finance, education, communications, government, construction, hospitality, employment services, utilities, wholesale trade, transportation, and others. Each field has a unique mix of products and services, business issues, challenges, and working conditions, which affects everything from your job description to your average workday to your overall success.

Explore and compare fields through 90 “best” lists, including best-paying fields, fastest-growing fields through 2014, and best jobs in each field. In-depth descriptions of more than 40 fields and industries are packed with details on earnings, growth, jobs in the industry, training, advancement, work environments, and sources of additional information.

Based on the latest government data, this helpful new resource covers both goods-producing and service industries. Another new book in JIST’s best-selling Best Jobs series.

Key Features
• Helps readers discover the best career fields in just two steps. In just two steps, 40 Best Fields for Your Career helps you quickly and easily pinpoint promising fields and industries (step 1: the lists) and learn more about fields of interest (step 2: the descriptions of the fields).
• Provides 90 “best” lists to help readers pinpoint promising fields and industries, compare facts on those fields, and find the fields and industries that are best for their careers. The lists include best-paying fields, fastest-growing fields, and best jobs in each field.
• In-depth descriptions of over 40 fields and industries are packed with details on earnings, growth, jobs in the industry, training, advancement, work environments, trends, and sources of additional information. Readers learn about the many differences between industries, which affect salary, working conditions, work environment, and other important issues.
• Covers the 40-plus key industries that employ over 75 percent of the workforce.
• Easy to read, well-organized, and includes many helpful tables and graphs.
• Gives an excellent overview of major employment, industry, and technological trends.
• Delivers current information for good career decision-making in a useful, interesting format. Based on the latest data from the Department of Labor, the most reliable career information source.
• Ideal companion to Best Jobs for the 21st Century and other JIST books that discuss the importance of industry information in your job search. These books include the Very Quick Job Search, Getting the Job You Really Want, Quick Job Search, Seven-Step Job Search, Overnight Career Choice, and New Guide for Occupational Exploration. By using both books, readers can determine the best jobs for them and in which industry to seek them. Also can be used on its own by people looking for broad industry information.
• Appealing design matches the new JIST “Best Jobs” books design.