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3rd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 476 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
JIST's best jobs series
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JIST's best jobs series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. The best jobs lists : jobs that don't require a four-year degree -- Some details on the lists -- Best jobs overall : lists of jobs with the highest pay, fastest growth, and most openings -- The 300 best jobs that don't require a four-year degree -- The 100 best-paying jobs that don't require a four-year degree -- The 100 fastest-growing jobs that don't require a four-year degree -- The 100 jobs with the most openings that don't require a four-year degree -- Best jobs lists by demographic -- Best jobs with the high percentage of workers age 16-24 -- 25 best jobs overall with high percentages of workers age 16-24 -- 25 best-paying jobs with high percentages of workers age 16-24 -- 25 fastest-growing jobs with high percentages of workers age 16-24 -- 25 jobs with the most openings with high percentages of workers 16-24 -- Best jobs with the highest percentages of workers age 55 and over -- 25 best jobs overall with high percentages of workers age 55 and over -- 25 best-paying jobs with high percentages of workers age 55 and over -- 25 fastest-growing jobs with high percentages of workers age 55 and over -- 25 jobs with the most openings with high percentages of workers 55 and over -- Best jobs with the highest percentages of part-time workers -- 25 best jobs overall with high percentages of part-time workers -- 25 best-paying jobs with high percentages of part-time workers -- 25 fastest-growing jobs with high percentages of part-time workers -- 25 jobs with the most openings with high percentages of part-time workers -- Best jobs with the highest percentages of self-employed workers -- 25 best jobs overall with high percentages of self-employed workers -- 25 best-paying jobs with high percentages of self-employed workers -- 25 fastest growing jobs with high percentages of self-employed workers -- 25 jobs with the most openings with a high percentages self-employed workers -- Best jobs employing the highest percentages of women -- 25 best jobs overall employing high percentages of women -- 25 best-paying jobs employing high percentages of women -- 25 fastest-growing jobs employing high percentages of women -- 25 jobs with the most openings employing high percentages of women -- Best jobs employing the highest percentages of men -- 25 best jobs overall employing high percentages of men -- 25 best-paying jobs employing high percentages of men -- 25 fastest-growing jobs employing high percentages of men -- 25 jobs with the most openings employing high percentages of men. |
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Best jobs lists on levels of education and experience -- The education levels -- Another warning about the data -- Best jobs requiring short-term on-the-job training -- Best jobs requiring moderate-term on-the-job training -- Best jobs requiring long-term on-the-job training -- Best jobs requiring work experience in a related job -- Best jobs requiring postsecondary vocational training -- Best jobs requiring an associate degree -- Best jobs lists based on interests -- Descriptions for the 16 interest areas -- Best jobs for people interested in agriculture and natural resources -- Best jobs for people interested in architecture and construction -- Best jobs for people interested in arts and communication -- Best jobs for people interested in business and administration -- Best jobs for people interested in education and training -- Best jobs for people interested in finance and insurance -- Best jobs for people interested in government and public administration -- Best jobs for people interested in health science -- Best jobs for people interested in hospitality, tourism, and recreation -- Best jobs for people interested in human service -- Best jobs for people interested in information technology -- Best jobs for people interested in law and public safety -- Best jobs for people interested in manufacturing -- Best jobs for people interested in retail and wholesale sales and service -- Best jobs for people interested in scientific research, engineering, and mathematics -- Best jobs for people interested in transportation, distribution, and logistics -- Best jobs lists based on personality types -- Descriptions of the six personality types -- Best jobs for people with a realistic personality type -- Best jobs for people with an investigative personality type -- Best jobs for people with an artistic personality type -- Best jobs for people with a social personality type -- Best jobs for people with an enterprising personality type -- Best jobs for people with a conventional personality type -- Best jobs through apprenticeship training -- The 50 best jobs through apprenticeship -- Best job through military training -- The 50 best jobs through military training -- Bonus lists : jobs employing a high percentage of people without a four-year degree -- Jobs employing the highest percentage of workers without a four-year degree -- 50 best jobs overall employing a high percentage of workers without a four-year degree -- Bonus lists : jobs with the greatest changes in outlook since the previous edition -- 25 jobs with the greatest increases in job-growth projection -- 25 jobs with the greatest decreases in job-growth projections. |
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pt. II. The job descriptions -- Advertising sales agents -- Aerospace engineering and operations technicians -- Agricultural engineers -- Air traffic controllers -- Aircraft cargo handling supervisors -- Aircraft mechanics and service technicians -- Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers -- Airfield operations specialists -- Animal control workers -- Animal trainers -- Architectural drafters -- Athletes and sports competitors -- Audio and video equipment technicians -- Automotive body and related repairers -- Automotive glass installers and repairers -- Automotive master mechanics -- Automotive specialty technicians -- Aviation inspectors -- Avionics technicians -- Bailiffs -- Bakers -- Bill and account collectors -- Billing, cost, and rate clerks -- Billing, posting, and calculating machine operators -- Boilermakers -- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks -- Brickmasons and blockmasons -- Broadcast technicians -- Brokerage clerks -- Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists -- Bus drivers, school -- Bus drivers, transit and intercity -- Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture -- Cardiovascular technologists and technicians -- Cargo and freight agents -- Cement masons and concrete finishers -- Chefs and head cooks -- Chemical plant and system operators -- Chemical technicians -- City and regional planning aides -- Civil drafters -- Civil engineering technicians -- Claims examiners, property and casualty insurance -- Coaches and scouts -- Commercial divers -- Commercial pilots -- Computer support specialists -- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers -- Concierges -- Construction and building inspectors -- Construction carpenters -- Construction laborers -- Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door -- Cooks, institution and cafeteria -- Cooks, restaurant -- Coroners -- Correctional officers and jailers -- Correspondence clerks -- Court clerks -- Court reporters -- Criminal investigators and special agents -- Customer service representatives -- Demonstrators and product promoters -- Dental assistants -- Dental hygienists -- Desktop publishers -- Diagnostic medical sonographers -- Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance -- Drywall and ceiling tile installers. |
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Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment -- Electrical drafters -- Electrical engineering technicians -- Electrical power-line installers and repairers -- Electricians -- Electronic drafters -- Electronic engineering technicians -- Elevator installers and repairers -- Eligibility interviewers, government programs -- Embalmers -- Emergency management specialists -- Emergency medical technicians and paramedics -- Environmental compliance inspectors -- Environmental engineering technicians -- Environmental science and protection technicians, including health -- Equal opportunity representatives and officers -- Excavating and loading machine dragline operators -- Executive secretaries and administrative assistants -- Farmers and ranchers -- Fashion designers -- Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators -- Fire inspectors -- Fire investigators -- First-line supervisors/managers of agricultural crop and horticultural workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of animal husbandry and animal care workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of aquacultural workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers -- First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand -- First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers -- First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives -- First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers -- First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators -- Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors -- Flight attendants -- Food batchmakers -- Food science technicians -- Food service managers -- Forest fire fighters -- Forest fire fighting and prevention supervisors -- Freight and cargo inspectors -- Funeral directors. |
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Gaming managers -- Gaming supervisors -- Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators -- Geological sample test technicians -- Geophysical data technicians -- Glaziers -- Government property inspectors and investigators -- Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists -- Hazardous materials removal workers -- Heating and air conditioning mechanics and installers -- Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters -- Helpers--carpenters -- Helpers--electricians -- Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers -- Helpers--pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters -- Highway maintenance workers -- Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping -- Immigration and custom inspectors -- Industrial engineering technicians -- Industrial machinery mechanics -- Industrial production mangers -- Industrial truck and tractor operators -- Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers -- Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall -- Insulation workers, mechanical -- Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators -- Insurance appraisers, auto damage -- Insurance claims clerks -- Insurance policy processing clerks -- Interior designers -- Interpreters and translators -- Interviews, except eligibility and loan -- Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand -- Landscaping and groundskeeping workers -- Legal secretaries -- Library technicians -- License clerks -- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses -- Licensing examiners and inspectors -- Loan interviewers and clerks -- Locksmiths and safe repairers -- Locomotive engineers -- Locomotive firers -- Lodging managers -- Machinists -- Maintenance and repair workers, general -- Maintenance workers, machinery -- Makeup artists, theatrical and performance -- Mapping technicians -- Massage therapists -- Mates--ship, boat, and barge -- Meat, poultry, and fish cutters, and trimmers -- Mechanical door repairers -- Mechanical drafters -- Mechanical engineering technicians -- Medical and clinical laboratory technicians -- Medical assistants -- Medical equipment preparers -- Medical equipment repairers -- Medical records and health information technicians -- Medical secretaries -- Medical transcriptionists -- Merchandise displayers and window trimmers -- Millwrights -- Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines -- Motorboat mechanics -- Motorcycle mechanics -- Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic -- Municipal clerks -- Municipal fire fighters -- Municipal fire fighting and prevention supervisors. |
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Nuclear equipment operation technicians -- Nuclear medicine technologists -- Nuclear monitoring technicians -- Nuclear power reactor operators -- Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants -- Occupational therapist assistants -- Office clerks, general -- Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators -- Painters, construction and maintenance -- Painters, transportation equipment -- Paralegals and legal assistants -- Parts salespersons -- Payroll and timekeeping clerks -- Pest control workers -- Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation -- Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers -- Pharmacy technicians -- Photographers -- Physical therapist aides -- Physical therapist assistants -- Pile-driver operators -- Pilots, ship -- Pipe fitters and steamfitters -- Pipelayers -- Plasterers and stucco masons -- Plumbers -- Police detectives -- Police identification and records officers -- Police patrol officers -- Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers -- Postal service clerks -- Postal service mail carriers -- Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators -- Postmasters and mail superintendents -- Power plant operators -- Preschool teachers, except special education -- Private detectives and investigators -- Producion, planning, and expediting clerks -- Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products -- Radiation therapists -- Radiologic technicians -- Radiologic technologists -- Rail car repairers -- Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and hostlers -- Railroad conductors and yardmasters -- Real estate brokers -- Real estate sales agents -- Receptionists and information clerks -- Recreational vehicle service technicians -- Refrigeration mechanics and installers -- Refuse and recyclable material collectors -- Registered nurses -- Reinforcing iron and rebar workers -- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks -- Residential advisors -- Respiratory therapists -- Roofers -- Rough carpenters. |
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Sailors and marine oilers -- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products -- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products -- Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive -- Security and fire alarm systems installers -- Security guards -- Self-enrichment education teachers -- Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners -- Sheet metal workers -- Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs -- Ship and boat captains -- Ship engineers -- Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks -- Skin care specialists -- Slaughterers and meat packers -- Social and human service assistants -- Social science research assistants -- Solderers and brazers -- Sound engineering technicians -- Statement clerks -- Stationary engineers and boiler operators -- Statistical assistants -- Stonemasons -- Storage and distribution managers -- Structural iron and steel workers -- Structural metal fabricators and fitters -- Subway and streetcar operators -- Surgical technologists -- Surveying technicians -- Talent directors -- Tank car, truck, and ship loaders -- Tapers -- Teacher assistants -- Team assemblers -- Technical directors/managers -- Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers -- Telecommunications line installers and repairers -- Tellers -- Tile and marble setters -- Tire repairers and changers -- Tile examiners, abstractors, and searchers -- Tour guides and escorts -- Transportation managers -- Transportation vehicle, equipment, and systems inspectors, except aviation -- Tree trimmers and pruners -- Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer -- Truck drivers, light or delivery services -- Umpires, referees, and other sports officials -- Veterinary technologists and technicians -- Vocational education teachers, postsecondary -- Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators -- Welders, cutters, and welder fitters -- Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Explore and compare '300 Best Job Options'. Good jobs exist for people without a four-year degree, and this book helps you identify the best options. It ranks the best jobs by level of training and education, including on-the-job training (short-term, moderate-term, and long-term); work experience in a related job; postsecondary vocational training; associate degree; apprenticeship; and military training"--Back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Vocational guidance.
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Vocational guidance. |
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Employment forecasting.
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Employment forecasting. |
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Job hunting.
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Job hunting. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shatkin, Laurence.
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| Added Title |
Three hundred best jobs without a four-year degree |
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Best jobs without a four-year degree |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Farr, J. Michael. 300 best jobs without a four-year degree. 3rd ed. Indianapolis, IN : JIST Works, ©2009 9781593576585 (DLC) 2008051123 (OCoLC)262422815 |
| ISBN |
9781593576974 (electronic book) |
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1593576978 (electronic book) |
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9781593576585 (alkaline paper) |
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1593576587 (alkaline paper) |
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