Georgia area occupational trends: WIA area #2 - GA Mountains, projections to 2008

Occupations with Most Annual Openings

Cashiers General Mgrs & Top Execs
Salespersons, Retail General Office Clerks Waiters & Waitresses
Janitors & Cleaners Comb Food Prep/Serv Wkrs
Meat, Poultry, Fish Cutters Secretaries, Ex Legal or Med
Guards Hand Packers & Packagers
Registered Nurses Sales Reps, Non-Scientific Food Preparation Workers

330 290 240 220 190 150 140 140 130 120 120 110 110 110

" While a large portion of these annual openings will result from new job creation, overall, most job openings 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 poultry processing industry, the key industry in this area.
" Ten require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
" Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, most of them pay less than average wages.

Occupations with Largest Declines

-460

-190

Sew ing Mach Oprs, Garment

Textile Mach Oprs/Tndrs

-40

Farm Wkrs, Ex Agri Serv

-30 Production Inspectors, Graders

-20 Station Intlrs/Reprs, Telephone

-20 Paste-up Workers

-20 Machine Tool Cutting Ops, M/P

-20 Saw ing Machine Setters

-20 Textile Draw -Out Mach Oprs

-20 Cement/Gluing Machine Oprs

" The occupations in this list are declining due to many factors, including technological advances, office automation and foreign competition.
" Five of these jobs are found mainly in textiles and apparel manufacturing and one is in telephone communications.
" Two are in clerical jobs with increasingly automated duties.
" One is in the printing and publishing industry and is a result of conversion to desktop publishing technology.

Georgia Area
Occupational Trends
Projections to 2008
WIA Area #2 GA Mountains

Town s U nion

Rabun

Lum pkin

W hite H abersham Stephens

D aw son

H all

Banks Franklin

H art

Forsyth

This area is made up of 13 counties in northeast Georgia comprising the southern tip of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It includes the following counties: Banks, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union and White.
Workforce Information & Analysis Division Georgia Department of Labor Michael L. Thurmond Commissioner

Total employment in WIA Area #2 is expected to reach almost 217,000 jobs by the year 2008, with more than 4,700 new jobs added each year. The area's economy is currently among the fastest growing in Georgia, with expected job growth of 2.8 percent per year over the next ten years, as compared to 2.4 percent for the state.
Area Highlights
" This area's main industry is poultry processing.
" Its principal city, Gainesville, is aptly nicknamed "the poultry capital of the world."
" It is the national leader in the production of broiler chickens and the third largest producer of chicken eggs.
" This area contains two of the fastest growing counties, Forsyth and Dawson, in the United States. As such, it was among the fastest growing areas in Georgia from 1988 to 1998, experiencing a 39.2 percent increase in population, while Georgia overall saw an increase in population of 20.9 percent over the same period.
" This area was also among the leaders in Georgia in the rate of growth in personal income, as it witnessed a 131.8 percent increase from 1988 to 1998 compared to a statewide growth rate of 96.8 percent.

.astest Growing Occupations

Systems Analysts Computer Programmers
Guards Reception/Information Clks
Teacher Aides, Paraprof Maids & Housekeeping Cleaners Laborers, Landscp/Groundskeep
Janitors & Cleaners Nursing Aides & Orderlies
Sales Reps, Science Meat, Poultry, Fish Cutters
Accountants & Auditors Registered Nurses
General Mgrs & Top Execs General Office Clerks Truck Drivers, Light

5.8% 4.7% 4.6% 4.4% 4.3% 4.0% 3.9% 3.9% 3.8% 3.7% 3.6% 3.6% 3.6%

11.6% 9.9%

21.1%

" 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.
" The top two fastest growing occupations are associated with computer technology.
" Four are found mainly in health services or are computer-related.
" Ten of these occupations do not require any formal education beyond high school.

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Occupations with Largest Job Growth

General Mgrs & Top Execs Cashiers
General Office Clerks Janitors & Cleaners Salespersons, Retail Guards
Meat, Poultry, Fish Cutters Systems Analysts Registered Nurses
Secretaries, Ex Legal or Med Waiters & Waitresses
Hand Packers & Packagers Sales Reps, Non-Scientific Reception/Information Clks Marketing/Sales Supervisors

1,270 1,210 1,010 970 920 890 830 760 760 670 670 650 650 630

1,970

" These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add about 14,000 jobs over the next 10 years, about 30 percent of all projected job growth in this region.
" Nine occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less and three require a bachelor's degree.
" Eight of these occupations also appear in the chart of the fastest growing occupations.
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