What career/ industry do you believe will become more in demand in Australia in the coming years, and would be wise for a school graduate to study?
Also what career do you believe will become redundant in the coming years due to the way the worlds changing?
thanks for you opinions :)
Out-sourcer.
I think physio/chiro/eye/spine specialist!
How many people are glued to their phones and pc everyday? all the neck/back pain and poor eyesight will create demand for these industries
Postie. From what I can tell my suburb doesn't seem to have one as my parcels never arrive.
Web developers
Builders and Tradies. They effectively guaranteeing their jobs from the quality of their work. (Not trying to be stereotyping here, but good Builders and Tradies are hard to find)
Psychiatrist do nothing, cash in and make more customers the way you behave!
According to the ATO report released last year, psychiatrists are one of the lowest paid medical specialists.
You'd be hard pressed to find any medical specialist charging cash in hand to avoid tax.
It's just not worth the risk to reputation, career and freedom.
chinese teacher
If you like cooking, go be a chef
"If you like hard work, long shifts, mediocre pay, go be a chef" #Fixt
Logistics/supply chain professionals.
From import perspective, Amazon etc are coming so they need people to help them bring goods in.
From export perspective, since we've been exporting coal/gas/aluminium and it doesn't seem to stop in the next 20 or 30 years, companies need people to be able to bring them out.
It's not just about putting a box on a plane or jumping in a van to complete the last mile delivery. It's about designing/implementing a solution on how to do these, on time with a right expectation and with minimum cost. Some of the tasks might be outsourced but people with local knowledge are always needed. Plus this is an industry easy to enter: it won't harm to start as a forklift driver (income is not too bad) then learn through the way to go up the ladder.
We can't find enough people to fill infosec roles, and it's predicted to be like that for quite some time. There's significant opportunity in that sector if you have the skill-set/drive to do so.
BSP (Bargain Seeking Professional).
the whole economy is screwed
Anything to do with Elon Musk.
Cloud Computing
Any thoughts on dentistry? Will there be robot dentists 20 years from now?
Births, Marriages and Deaths - Can't go wrong.
Sex industry
According to the Employment Outlook to November 2020 report by the Department of Employment (http://lmip.gov.au/default.aspx?LMIP/GainInsights/Employment…). The top three industries projected to grow between 2016 and 2020 are:
+ Health Care and Social Assistance (250,200 new jobs)
+ Professional, Scientific and Technical Services (151,200 new jobs)
+ Education and Training (121,700 new jobs).
The Department of Employment also carries out research to identify skill shortages in the Australian labour market (https://www.employment.gov.au/skill-shortages). You can have a look through the lists for your region for current skills shortages.
HEALTH CARE
Multi-disciplinary systems engineer (preferably from electrical/mechanical engineering or mechatronic engineering background).
As we move towards the "internet of things" with many new technologies and systems being introduced, demand for systems engineers are increasing. Take for example hyperloop, connected autonomous vehicles or even infrastructure and digital engineering (i.e. BIM), these are emerging systems and technologies of the future. One may argue and say the successful acquisition of these systems rely on "good engineering practice" but for highly complex systems, a design engineer won't be developing system architecture models, reliability modelling, understand requirements management in depth, conduct verification and validation tests or consider the whole of life cost (OPEX) of the system.
There seems to be a bit of a myth around STEM - we are told there are shortages, yet there has been a surplus of graduates for a long time.
http://issues.org/29-4/what-shortages-the-real-evidence-abou… (USA based)
There is of course high growth potential in science, the problem is that society doesn't value science enough to actually pay for it.
construction, for obvious reasons.
Entrepreneur. No degree needed, just use your brain wisely. If everything will move to automation, the employment ratio will be dropped down dramatically. If people are unemployed their earnings would be stopped, so why not plan something which would give solution for the problem?
Do not worry about the problems about to come, plan a solution that will help to overcome the problem. You do not want to do social work or go on a strike like others, take the advantage and sell your solution. Such opportunities could potentially reward you with fame and money.
Tradies in Mining/Oil/Gas companies. These guys earn $h1tload$ of cash. I regretted going to Uni and being a white-collar. Tradies out of TAFE earn 70k+ if they are willing to work offshore and then in few years many of these guys can hit $100-200k. Got a mate in the industry, this is no BS.
Don't forget, JOIN THE freaking UNION. Carrnnn.. CMFEU (profanity)!
So many bs stories, but if you are an employee, ur winning! Not many people know about this outside people in the industry, but you should explore this option. Welder, operators, electricians and etc is killing it.
Agree with most of that, i do feel sorry for the guys earning 70k especially if on a permanent equal time roster employer is taking advantage.
Always a catch and since nepotism is being removed or making it harder to spot the guys are a bit stuck because of the level of exp (time) normally 7 years min in the industry.
Makes it hard to break into especially offshore. the number of new assets in the country is making it easier to break in if you can get into the construction phase, you normally won't be getting a fair roster but the money is better. and gives you a similar chance of taking the permanent offshore roster which has moved to 20 weeks
Always got to give somewhere,
if you understand production operations and maintenance you can move back onshore without losing the money, which is more than you estimated above.
if your going the trade route make it a double i.e. electricians you need instrumentation as a minimum.
If you add Rope access to any trade it's another one to consider, look through the list of High risk work licences
The operators are trying to get more for their money so if one work front is backed up it's better to be useful than having to flying home on next helo
escort - loads of money and unlikely to be affected/replaced by any sort of automation for a long a time
Politicians, they're always in demand.
cyber security
Insolvency practitioners
Dietitians/Nutrition, especially around fat kids
Colo-rectal surgeons
Debt Collectors
Alcohol biz
Sex oriented businesses
Weaponry
The demand for skill won't ever go away. Choose what skills interest you and that's where you'll make the most impact.
Don't know what you're interested in? Then do what I did and change your degree umpteen times to find out. Better using up your elective spots to figure it out than spending 50K on another degree when you figure out you don't like the work.
Have a look at the govt's projections of employment for industries and occupations here
http://lmip.gov.au/default.aspx?LMIP/GainInsights/Employment…
They use the data in their career-help site too
http://joboutlook.gov.au/