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Replacement needs will account for three-fi fths of the projected
job openings.
NOTE: Extra job openings result when workers who leave the
occupation must be replaced. For example, some workers
leave because they are promoted, change careers, go back
to school, stay home to care for relatives, retire, or other
reasons. Occupations that combine low pay and low training
requirements with a high proportion of young and part-time
workers have greater replacement needs.
Service and professional specialty occupations will provide
about 2 of every 5 job openings.
Computer-related occupations and teachers will account for
15 percent of all new jobs.
Replacement needs will create job openings in agriculture,
forestry, fi shing, and related occupations.
Offi ce automation will affect many administrative and clerical
support occupations. These occupations will increase more
slowly than average; some will decline.
Precision production, craft, and repair occupations and
operators, fabricators, and laborers will grow slower than
average. This is due to advances in technology, changes in
production methods, and an overall decline in manufacturing
jobs.
The fastest-growing occupations refl ect growth in computer
technology and health care services.
Computer engineers
and systems analysts
jobs will grow rapidly.
This is due to the
needs of scientifi c
research and the
applications of
computer technology.
4 LIFE SKILLS: FINANCIAL LITERACY SKILLS — STUDENT EDITION