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.
Eleven of the fastest growing occupations are in health care.
Seven of these occupations require minimal training (less than one month of on-the-job training).
Five occupations have earned the Hot label on a statewide basis
for this period.

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks Home Health Aides
Personal and Home Care Aides Medical Assistants
Massage Therapists Pharmacy Technicians
Writers and Authors
Hot Computer Software Engineers,Apps
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants Pipelayers
Hot Respiratory Therapists Hot Physical Therapists
Dental Assistants
Hot Dental Hygienists Hot Registered Nurses

6.13% 5.59% 4.70% 4.14% 4.12% 4.04% 3.93% 3.88% 3.78% 3.73% 3.70% 3.65% 3.60% 3.59% 3.53%

Occupations with the Most Annual Openings
Most of the job openings in this list will result from the need to replace workers who change jobs rather than from new job creation.
Eight require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
On a statewide level, three of these occupations have been
designated Hot for the 2008-2018 projections period.
Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, more than half of them pay less than average wages.

Retail Salespersons Cashiers
Waiters and Waitresses
Hot Registered Nurses Hot Elementary School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed
Customer Service Representatives Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers, Hand
Office Clerks, General Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
Hot Secondary School Teachers, Exc Spec & Voc Ed
Teacher Assistants Child Care Workers Supvs of Retail Sales Workers General and Operations Managers Supvrs of Office and Admin Support Workers

180 160 150 130 120 110 100 100 100 100 90 90

310 290 260

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2018
WIA Area #9 NE Georgia

Jackson

Madison

Elbert

Barrow Walton

Clarke

Oconee

Oglethorpe

Newton

Morgan

Greene

Jasper

This area is made of 12 counties in northeast Georgia in and around the city of Athens. It includes the following counties: Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton.

Workforce Statistics & Economic Research Mark Butler, Commissioner

Total Industry Growth
Total employment in WIA Area #9 is expected to grow from approximately 201,000 jobs in 2008 to more than 233,000 by the year 2018, which equates to 3,200 new jobs added each year. The area is home to the state's flagship university, the University of Georgia. The main industries are higher education, health services, agriculture, nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, and on a smaller scale, poultry processing.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Educational Services

7,830

Food Services and Drinking Places

3,700

Ambulatory Health Care Services

2,520

Hospitals

2,240

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

1,800

Accommodation

1,540

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction

1,510

Administrative and Support Services
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
General Merchandise Stores

1,470 1,180 1,140

Industry Rate of Growth

North East Georgia Mountains has the fourth fastest projected job growth in Georgia, with an estimated 1.5% growth rate, the area is expected to exceed the state (1.2%) and the nation (1.0%).
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyright)
Accommodation
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
Warehousing and Storage
Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities
Social Assistance
Waste Management and Remediation Service
Wholesale Electronic Markets and Agents and Brokers
Ambulatory Health Care Services

6.08% 5.32% 5.24% 4.73% 4.59% 4.06% 3.99% 3.65% 3.57%

10.98%

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Occupations with the Most Job Growth
These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add almost 10,000 jobs over the next 10 years, 30 percent of all projected job growth in this area.
Seven occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less and four require a college degree.
Two of these occupations have made the coveted list of Georgia's
Hot Careers to 2018 for their fast job growth, high wages, and
plentiful job openings during this series of projections.

Hot Registered Nurses
Retail Salespersons
Hot Elementary School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed
Waiters and Waitresses Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants
Customer Service Representatives Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
Office Clerks, General Teacher Assistants Child Care Workers
Bookkeeping,Accounting, &Auditing Clerks Cashiers
Licensed Practical and Licensed Voc Nurses Supvrs Food Prep & Serving Workers
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

930 920 850 720 670 610 590 580 500 460 450 420 370 370

1,290

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