Libraries Interact » profession http://librariesinteract.info Blog central for Australasian Libraries Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:32:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ten best jobs of 2010 http://librariesinteract.info/2010/01/12/ten-best-jobs-of-2010/ http://librariesinteract.info/2010/01/12/ten-best-jobs-of-2010/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:40:56 +0000 Michelle http://librariesinteract.info/?p=1210

A new study by CareerCast.Com has rated the Best jobs for 2010.

Based on research into 200 positions, investigating environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress, the top ten best jobs were:

  1. Actuary
  2. Software engineer
  3. Computer systems analyst
  4. Biologist
  5. Historian
  6. Mathematician
  7. Paralegal assistant
  8. Statistician
  9. Accountant
  10. Dental Hygienist

Although librarians didn’t make the top ten list, they came in at a reasonable 46 in the Top 200 of jobs, ranked best to worst. That at least put us on the positive side of the list, at least in this study.  Librarians earned the following rankings:

Overall Ranking: 46
Overall Score: 344
Work Environment: 385.200
Physical Demands: 7.56
Stress: 21.400
Income: $53,145
Hiring Outlook: 4.45 (Poor)

To give you some perspective, Actuary had the following rankings:

Overall Ranking: 1
Overall Score: 46
Work Environment: 179.440
Physical Demands: 3.97
Stress: 20.187
Income: $85,229
Hiring Outlook: 24.79 (Very Good)

This study is based on the American situation and the financial situation in Australia is more secure than in the USA, so I would expect that such a study done in Australia would have some differences. Exactly how many differences and what they would be I can only leave to conjecture. However, the US situation is often a guide to what may happen here.

So, anyone want to get a job in libraries in 2010?

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