Engineering, product management, government and health care are among 12 burgeoning, well-paying career paths of our economy, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The publication highlights the 12 career paths and indicates the “personality fit” an individual would need to succeed in that career.

• Finance/Insurance: Goal-oriented and ambitious.  Adapts quickly to strict hierarchy.
• Accounting: Analytical thinker. Highly-organized.
• Government: Dedicated to public service. Drawn to a highly-structured environment.
• Health Care: Innovative and persistent risk-taker.
• Information Technology: Creative with inherent technical flair.
• Marketing/Advertising: Self-starter and curious.
• Nonprofits: Empathetic with a desire to help others.
• Public Relations/Communications: Extroverts and social media buffs.
• Sales: Outgoing with a gift of gab.
• Business Operations: Results-driven and intellectually agile.
• Product Management: Natural leaders, creative and analytical.
• Engineering:  Detail-oriented and technically-adaptive.

Tags: global competition

This entry was posted on Friday, September 17th, 2010 at 5:48 am and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.