Georgia area workforce trends: WIA area #15 - Middle Flint, projections to 2016

Fastest Growing Occupations
These fast-growing occupations will have better employment prospects than occupations with slow or declining employment. Also, conditions will be more favorable for mobility and advancement.
Two of the fastest growing occupations are associated with the healthcare industry.
Three have earned the "HOT" label for this period on a statewide basis.

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks Extruding, Forming, Pressing, &
Compacting Machine Setters, Operator Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, & Buffing
Machine Tool Setters, Operat Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tend
Home Health Aides
Medical Assistants
Hot Physician Assistants
Grinding & Polishing Workers, Hand
Preschool Teachers, Exc Spec Ed
Hot Industrial Engineers
Personal & Home Care Aides Electrical & Electronics Repairers,
Commercial and Ind Equipm
Hot Physical Therapists
Dispatchers, Exc Police, Fire, & Ambulance
Maids & Housekeeping Cleaners

5.54% 5.35% 4.32% 3.27% 2.93% 2.46% 2.07% 2.07% 2.04% 1.80% 1.77% 1.68% 1.64% 1.59% 1.58%

Occupations with the Most Annual Openings
Most of the annual openings in this list will result from the need to replace workers who change jobs rather than from new job creation.
Two of these jobs are directly related to the healthcare industry, a key industry in this area.
Two have been designated "HOT" for the period on a statewide basis.
Thirteen require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.

Cashiers Farmw orkers & Laborers, Crop, Nursery, &
Greenhouse Retail Salespersons
Truck Drivers, Heavy & Tractor-Trailer
Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed Hot Registered Nurses
Combined Food Prep & Serving Workers, Inc Fast Food Customer Service Reps
Team Assemblers
Waiters and Waitresses
Helpers--Production Workers Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers,
Hand Home Health Aides
Maids & Housekeeping Cleaners
Hotel, Motel, & Resort Desk Clerks

50 40 30 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 10 10 10

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2016
WIA Area #15 Middle Flint
This area is made up of eight counties in the middle Flint River basin in and around the city of Americus. It includes the following counties: Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Taylor and Webster.
Workforce Information & Analysis Division
Georgia Department of Labor Michael L. Thurmond Commissioner

Total Industry Growth

Total employment in WIA Area #15 is expected to remain stable over the next decade, hovering around the 40,000 level. This area is the home of the 39th president of the United States. It also is the home of a regional medical center, and a state university. Substantial employment can be found in health services, education services, agriculture, state government employment, food processing, and wood products manufacturing.

The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Nonmetallic mineral product manuf ac turing
Educational services

650 320

Accommodation

300

Ambulatory health care services

260

Social assistance Membership associations and
organizations Nursing and residential care facilities

170 130 130

Self-employed & unpaid family w krs

100

Administrative and support services
Merchant w holesalers, nondurable goods

90 50

Industry Rate of Growth
The area's economy is expected to experience some challenges expanding job growth consistently over the projection period. Area job growth is expected to decline 0.1 percent per year, while Georgia's job growth is expected to increase 1.3 percent per year and the nation is expected to add annual job growth of 1.0 percent.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Nonmetallic mineral product manuf ac turing
Transportation equipment manufacturing

6.8%

Accommodation

5.4%

Social assistance

3.3%

Ambulatory health care services Membership associations and organizations
Administrative and support services

2.3% 2.2% 1.6%

Nursing and residential care facilities

1.0%

Educational services 0.8%

Professional and technical services 0.5%

9.5%

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Occupations with the Most Job Growth
These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add 600 jobs over the next 10 years, despite the area's decline in total employment overall.
Two of these occupations require a college degree and six require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
Four are in healthcare, a key industry in this area.
Two have made the list of Georgia's "HOT" Careers to 2016 for their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during this period.

Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer

100

Home Health Aides

60

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

60

Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed

60

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks
Hot Registered Nurses
Carpenters Comb Food Prep & Serving Workers, Inc Fast
Food Medical Assistants

50 50 40 40 30

Customer Service Representatives

30

Teacher Assistants

30

Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants Extruding, Forming, Pressing, & Comp Machine
Setters, Op
Preschool Teachers, Exc Spec Ed

30 20 20

Personal and Home Care Aides

20