Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Jobs that won't be offshored

According to Guerrilla Marketing for Job-Hunters by Jay Levinson and David Perry, (ISBN: 0-471-71484-4) the following industries will have jobs which will be difficult to impossible to offshore:
  1. Energy
  2. Preventive Health Care
  3. Security
  4. Military
  5. Government
  6. Insurance
  7. Consumer Financial Services
  8. Agriculture
  9. Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical

I personally add most of any type of health care practitioner as long as they need to physically see you. If the information can be electronically sent to another country, such as medical transcription, those jobs are at risk.

This may be the once in a lifetime opportunity to get some retraining. Meet with a career counselor to take some assessments and learn about different jobs then meet with the financial aid counselor. There are many grants and funds available and I believe more will become available, as more companies layoff employees who need retraining.