When someone mentions the term "hot jobs," what comes to mind? If thoughts of IT-related careers come to mind, don't be surprised. The U.S. Department of Labor and Bureau of Labor Statistics counted and predicted the fastest-growing, hottest, high-demand IT careers between the years 2000-2014.
But many people enter computer science, get a degree, and discover they don't want to be a business programmer, network administrator, database administrator, analyst, or technical consultant.
While those traditional IT careers may still have significant demand in the future, don't forget your options. There are plenty of enjoyable and in-demand careers. Every year, new types of computer careers emerge.
Below is a list of some of the hottest and most in-demand computer-related careers. These statistics were derived from the BLS list of 30 fastest-growing occupations and also referenced opinions of computer experts.
Note: This list is not in order of job demand.
1. Environmental Simulation Developer
With global warming affecting the world and with Vice President Al Gore's movie and book: An Inconvenient Truth, this field will generate more career opportunities. A key skill will be environmental simulation development. These developers will create accurate environmental models and run short-term and long-term simulations to collect data for environmental scientists to analyze. As climate change becomes more accepted and as governments continue to take it seriously, the need for climate and environmental developers will increase.
2. Video Game Developer
As the video game market expands, especially with the introduction of Wii, the video game industry continues to need core developers. In fact, there is evidence that video games will enter new fields on a larger scale, such as the health and education industries. Video games have their critics, but they also bring benefits: providing therapy, teaching hand-eye coordination, strategy, and planning. That said, video games need continuous innovation. We look forward to when we can play holographic games.
3. Bio-simulation Modeling
Biology is a vast and important field, including genome research, genome sequencing, protein structure analysis, all of which will drive medical advancements. Besides scientific skills, applied mathematics, modeling, and computer skills are needed.
4. 3D Animation Production
3D animations like The Incredibles and Beowulf require creative and technical skills, needing multi-disciplinary collaboration to become more realistic.
These technologies are also used in television exhibitions and commercializations. With the development of visual technology, related career opportunities will increase.
5. Internet Ventures
The Internet provides careers not only for college graduates. It's easy to start your own online business. If you have passion, software development, web consulting, or web publishing are all viable options. For example, by publishing RSS detectors, people can search using search engines and data filtering functions, creating opportunities online.
6. Medical System Modeling Development and Technology
Health is undoubtedly a huge market. As the baby boom generation becomes the economic engine and gradually ages, they are more interested in health. Advances in medical technology mean nurses must acquire more skills. Similarly, external health products like hearing aids begin to focus on both function and style. This requires a better understanding of the human body, let alone building advanced computer systems to model new technologies.
7. Digital Film Production Assistance and Technology
Due to online TV software like Joost and Babelgum, many video-sharing sites, along with traditional film and television industries, need more video content to develop themselves. Although film-based movies still have their advantages and are in use, the trend in movie development is digital technology—for both films and television—using mature computer systems for playback. An example is the development of HDTV, which shows that this field needs more technicians.
8. Website Maintenance Management
Magazine writers do not need to know how their works are printed. Why should an author be expected to manage the details of a site, even if the site uses CMS? As websites and personal blogs increase, the demand for website maintenance and beautification grows.
Ideal personnel should know how to install CMS forms like Wordpress and Drupal, register sites, manage databases and backups, edit customer profiles, move servers, etc.
9. Training Software Development
Training and self-help solutions are one of the largest industries in the modern economy. The demand for developing more advanced and effective teaching software is very high.
Did you know that the Internet provides an advanced teaching tool? The Internet is an ideal tool for learning, so designing a paid teaching website is a great opportunity. You might worry about payment issues, but PayPal is an effective online payment tool.
10. Video and Audio Processing
The fastest-growing area in the next decade will be video and audio. People familiar with coding techniques and proficient in video screen capture software will be more in demand.
This article was translated by diglog from http://www.computermajors.com/10-hot-computer-jobs.