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.
Four of the fastest growing occupations are found in the healthcare industry.
Four have been designated Hot during this period on a state-
wide basis.
Only three of the fifteen occupations on the list require a high school diploma.

Hot Meeting and Convention Planners
Veterinary Technologists and Technicians Home Health Aides
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers Diagnostic Medical Sonographers Interpreters and Translators
Hot Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists Hot Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Personal and Home Care Aides
Hot Software Developers, Applications
Occupational Therapists Health Educators
Landscape Architects Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
Communications Teachers, Postsecondary

4.40% 3.54% 3.54% 3.20% 3.17% 3.13% 2.82% 2.55% 2.50% 2.45% 2.33% 2.30% 2.26% 2.26% 2.26%

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.
Five of the fifteen jobs that made the list are in healthcare or education.
Eleven do not require any training or course work beyond high school.
On a statewide basis, two of these occupations have earned the
Hot label for this period.
Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, more than half of them pay less than average wages.

Cashiers Retail Salespersons Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Hot Registered Nurses*
Combined Food Prep and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers Waiters and Waitresses Child Care Workers
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
Hot Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Ed
Teacher Assistants Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
Customer Service Representatives Office Clerks, General
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants*

170 140 130 120 120 110 100 90 70 60 60 60 60 60 50

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2020
WIA Area #17 SW Georgia
This area includes the 14 counties of southwest Georgia in and around the city of Albany. It includes the following counties: Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas and Worth.
Workforce Statistics & Economic Research Mark Butler, Commissioner

Total Industry Growth
Total employment in WIA Area #17 is expected to grow from 140,000 jobs in 2010 to almost 144,000 by the year 2020, which equates to more than 400 new jobs added each year. This area is the chief producer of agricultural products in Georgia and is the largest producer of both peanuts and pecans in the United States. In addition to having substantial employment in education and healthcare, this area is also a principal producer of food and kindred products, and wood manufactured products.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Administrative and Support Services Food Manufacturing Hospitals Educational Services
Ambulatory Health Care Services State, Excluding Education and Hospitals
Social Assistance Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Food Services and DrinkingPlaces Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

1,870 1,540 1,460 1,120 620 480 460 370 330 290

Industry Rate of Growth
Employment in Southwest Georgia has declined slightly, since our last projection. The area's annual job growth rate is expected to decelerate to 0.3 percent. Growth in the area should increase as the economy recovers and manufacturing picks up. Employment growth for the state and the nation sits above the 1.0 percent mark.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related
Industries Nonstore Retailers
Administrative and Support Services Food Manufacturing Social Assistance
Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction Hospitals
State, Excluding Education and Hospitals Ambulatory Health Care Services

3.42% 2.79% 2.51% 2.33% 2.31% 1.80% 1.68% 1.48% 1.30% 1.29%

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Occupations with the Most Job Growth
These 15 occupations out of more than 800 - are projected to add more than 3,800 jobs over the next 10 years, which exceeds the base employment projections for the area.
Five occupations require training or college course work beyond high school.
Four are in healthcare, a key industry in this area.
Two occupations have made the list of Georgia's Hot Careers to
2020 as a result of their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings over this period.

Hot Registered Nurses*
Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers Child Care Workers
Comb Food Prep and Serving Workers, Incl Fast Food Home Health Aides
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants*
Hot Elem School Teachers, Except Special Ed
Janitors and Cleaners, Exc Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners Medical Secretaries Packers and Packagers, Hand Teacher Assistants
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Office Clerks, General
Customer Service Representatives Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education

340 300 280 230 220 200 170 160 150 150 140 130 110

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

660 600

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