Thursday, March 26, 2009

Top 10 Jobs for College Graduates Includes Paralegal

Career information expert Dr. Lawrence Shatkin and job search expert Michael Farr, authors of the updated 200 Best Jobs for College Graduates (JIST Works, January 2009), include paralegal in their Top 10 best-paying and “readily available” jobs.

The authors went through the 2008-2009 edition of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report titled "Occupational Projections and Training Data" to determine the number of projected openings in various jobs. They then got earnings information for those from the bureau's Occupational Employment Statistics program. The bureau classifies 500 jobs, and the authors ranked them according to entry-level pay. Finally, they singled out occupations that would have both a number of openings and relatively high pay.

But paralegal wasn’t number one. The top job is network systems and data communications analyst.

This book is selling for $13.22 at Amazon.com. In these tough economic times, it might be worth the price of the entire book, just for the page that lists “paralegal” in the Top 10. We could frame the page, hang it over our computers and look to it for reassurance when the layoff news becomes overwhelming.

See Alibaba.com.

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