Fastest Growing Occupations

Preschool Teachers, Exc Special Education
Rehabilitation Counselors Probation Officers & Correctional Treatment
Specialists Child, Family, & School Social Workers
Child Care Workers
Home Health Aides
Social & Human Service Assistants
Hot Medical & Public Health Social Workers Residential Advisors
Hot Employment, Recruitment, & Placement Specialists
Hot Training & Development Specialists Hot Netw ork Systems & Data Comm Analysts
Personal & Home Care Aides
Hot Computer Softw are Engineers, Applications
Medical Assistants

5.6% 4.2% 4.1% 4.0% 3.8% 3.6% 3.6% 3.5% 3.4% 3.4% 3.3% 3.0% 2.9% 2.6% 2.5%

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.
Four of the fastest growing occupations are associated with the healthcare industry and two are related to computers.
Five have earned the "HOT" label on a statewide basis for this period.
Six of these jobs do not require any formal education beyond high school.

Occupations with the Most Annual Openings

Cashiers
Child Care Workers
Retail Salespersons
Waiters & Waitresses
Combined Food Prep & Serv Workers, Incl Fast Food
Farmw orkers & Laborers, Crop, Nursery, & Greenhouse
Hot Registered Nurses
Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers, Hand
Stock Clerks & Order Fillers
Correctional Officers & Jailers
Teacher Assistants
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants
Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Special Education
Team Assemblers
Janitors & Cleaners, Exc Maids & Housekeeping Cleaners
Food Preparation Workers
Hot General & Operations Managers
Office Clerks, General
Supvrs of Retail Sales Workers

70 70 70 60 50 50 40 40 40 40 40 30 30 30 30 30

130 120 110

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.
On a statewide basis, three have earned the "HOT" label for this period.
Twelve require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, more than half of them pay less than average wages.

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2014
WIA Area #16 Heart of GA/Altamaha
This area encompasses 17 counties in the heart of the state in and around the city of Dublin. It includes the following counties: Appling, Bleckley, Candler, Dodge, Emanuel, Evans, Jeff Davis, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, Wheeler and Wilcox.
Workforce Information & Analysis Division
Georgia Department of Labor Michael L. Thurmond Commissioner

Total Industry Growth
Total employment in WIA Area #16 is expected to grow from almost 99,000 jobs in 2004 to more than 100,000 by the year 2014, which equates to more than 140 new jobs added each year. This area is the home of the world-famous sweet Vidalia onion. It is also the home of a V. A. Hospital and several state prison facilities. This area was the chief apparel products producer in Georgia during the last decade. As such, it was one of the hardest hit areas in the state with the transfer overseas of many apparel manufacturing jobs during the 10-year period. Besides agriculture, other key industries include education, healthcare, state and federal government employment, textiles, fabricated metal manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, and machinery manufacturing.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth

State Government, Excl Education & Hospitals Social Assistance
Administrative & Support Services
Educational Services
Am bulatory Health Care Services
Hos pitals
Food Services & Drinking Places
General Merchandise Stores Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
Nursing & Residential Care Facilities
Personal and Laundry Services

1,220 860 640 410 360 350 270 240 170 170

2,320

Industry Rate of Growth
The area's economy is expected to lag behind both the state's and the nation's economy over the projection period. Area job growth is expected to be 0.1 percent per year, while Georgia's job growth is expected to be 1.7 percent per year and the nation is expected to have annual job growth of 1.2 percent.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Waste Management & Remediation Services Social Assistance
Support Activities for Transportation
Administrative & Support Services State Government, Excl Education &
Hos pitals Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Printing & Related Support Activities
Personal & Laundry Services Nonmetallic Mineral Product
Manufacturing Electronics & Appliance Stores

6.9% 6.6% 5.5% 4.0% 3.9% 3.2% 2.8% 2.7% 2.5% 2.5%

For copies of the Georgia Career Planner, Georgia Workforce Trends or this publication,
call 404/232-3875 or contact your local Department of Labor office.

Occupations with the Most Job Growth

Child Care Workers
Hot Registered Nurses

720 330

Preschool Teachers, Exc Special Education

200

Correctional Officers & Jailers

200

Child, Family, & School Social Workers

160

Teacher Assistants

150

Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants

150

Home Health Aides

130

Personal & Home Care Aides

130

Social & Human Service Assistants Janitors & Cleaners, Exc Maids & Housekeeping
Cleaners Hairdressers, Hairstylists, & Cosmetologists
Hot Training & Development Specialists
Retail Salespersons Probation Officers & Correctional Treatment
Specialists

120 120 120 100 100 90

These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add more than 2,800 jobs over the next 10 years, the majority of all projected job growth in this area.
Six occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less and four require a college degree.
Two have made the list of Georgia's "HOT" Careers to 2014 for their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during the projections period.
Four are in healthcare and two are in criminal justice, both key industries in this area.