Recession Pains Create Shift in Job Market's Top 25 Hottest Professions

By Barry Lawrence

The Jobfox Top 25 Most Recession-Proof U.S. Job Candidates: October 2008 rankings are out.

The report provides the first look at the most in-demand jobs following continued stock market plunges, federal bailout announcements and general consenses among everyone that, yes, we are indeed in a recession.

Each month, Jobfox produces a Top 25 "hot jobs" list based on a sample of the site's employer activity. The new rankings are based on employer job postings that were initiated — and remain open — over a 120-day period ending October 28, 2008. In short, about the time we all realized we're in a heep of trouble.

Surprisingly, many of the old standards continued to hold up — despite economic woes. But there were also some changes in the Jobfox Top 25 rankings of jobs, including winners and losers. We'll have to keep our eye on the next report to see if these are permanent trends or one-month deals.

See the full report if you want to peruse the details. Here are some highlights:

The Top 10

1. Sales Representative/Business Development
2. Account/Customer Support
3. Accounting Staff
4. Counseling/Social Work
5. Software Design/Development
6. Administrative Assistant
7. Networking/System Administration
8. Nursing
9. Mechanical Engineering
10. Sales Management

New to the Jobfox Top 25

• No. 18 Medical Administrative Services
• No. 20 IT Security
• No. 22 Higher Education (Faculty)
• No. 23 Product Management
• No. 25 Human Resource Generalist

Exiting the Top 25

• Database Administration
• Advertising (Online and Offline)
• Testing/Quality Assurance
• Business Analysis (Research)
• Business Analysis (Software Implementation)

Biggest Moves

• Technology Executive (up 8 spots to No. 16)
• Counseling/Social Work (up 7 spots to No. 4)
• Mechanical Engineering (down 4 spots to No. 9)
• Electrical Engineering (down 4 spots to No. 14)

Barry Lawrence is the community advocate for BetterMondays. He is also a career and public relations evangelist at Jobfox.

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