{"id":210,"date":"2010-01-26T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:39:16","slug":"yet-another-encouraging-employment-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2010\/01\/26\/yet-another-encouraging-employment-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another encouraging employment projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News items like this come along every month.  I don&#8217;t write about them usually, but the new 10-year projection from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics warrants a comment.  The news for computer science jobs is still very optimistic.  Here are a couple of outlandish quotes from the <a href='http:\/\/www.cccblog.org\/2010\/01\/04\/where-the-jobs-are\/'>CRA post<\/a> summarizing the new report: &#8221;Computer and mathematical&#8217; occupations are the fastest growing occupational cluster within the fastest growing major occupational group&#8217;, and &#8216;&#8230; among all occupations in all fields of science and engineering, computer science occupations are projected to account for nearly 60% of all job growth between now and 2018.&#8217;  Here&#8217;s the full report from BLS, if you&#8217;re curious: [<a href='http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/2009\/11\/art5full.pdf'>pdf<\/a>], and here is <a href='http:\/\/cs.calvin.edu\/p\/ComputingCareersMarket'>a nice summary<\/a> of the good situation that CS graduates are likely to find themselves in for the forseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News items like this come along every month. I don&#8217;t write about them usually, but the new 10-year projection from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics warrants a comment. The news for computer science jobs is still very optimistic. Here are a couple of outlandish quotes from the CRA post summarizing the new report: &#8221;Computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}