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Nurse and truck driver among hottest jobs for 2016, CareerBuilder reports

December 07, 2015

Registered nurses and truck drivers are among CareerBuilder’s lists of hottest jobs for 2016. The research from CareerBuilder, in partnership with Economic Modeling Specialists International, is comprised of occupations where the number of job ads companies post each month outpace the number of people they actually hire.

“For over 100 occupations in the US, there is far more job posting activity than hiring month to month,” said CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson. “While many of these jobs are in the technology and healthcare sectors, there are also plenty of opportunities in areas such as marketing, sales and transportation. The availability of jobs across industries underscores the need for companies to evaluate where their talent deficits are and become more strategic about how they fill these needs — whether that means reskilling their current workers, offering higher salaries to attract workers, or using data analytics to target talent with the right skills.”

The top-five occupations that require a college education and have the largest gap between job openings and hires are:

  1. Registered nurses
  2. Software developers, applications
  3. Marketing managers
  4. Sales managers
  5. Medical and health services managers

The top-five occupations that don’t typically require a college degree and have the largest gap between job openings and hires are:

  1. Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
  2. Food service managers
  3. Computer user support specialists
  4. Insurance sales agents
  5. Medical records and health information technicians

Some occupations may require additional training after high school.

This analysis uses EMSI’s labor market database, which pulls from over 90 national and state employment resources. CareerBuilder and EMSI looked at the average number of people hired per month in more than 700 occupations from January 2015 to September 2015 and compared that to the number of job postings for each occupation (aggregated from online job sites for the same period).