Blue collar and government jobs are among the most
1 careers for U.S. graduates, according
to U.S. News magazine’s 2008 Best Careers report. U.S. employers are
increasingly offshoring professional jobs. This means less jobs 2 college-graduate skills, the magazine
says. As in many other countries, U.S. high school students are
told that college is the 3 . So there’s
a growing 4 of skilled people in jobs
that don’t require a college education. But the report also says that some
rewarding blue-collar careers, such as technical work in the biomedical
equipment and security systems sectors, are more 5
to college graduates. These are more knowledge-based than the
usual blue-collar jobs. Government is becoming an employer of
6 . Corporations, fueled by pressures
to compete globally, continue to get ever 7 . Non-profit organizations are increasingly strapped for cash. Government is
able to pay employees well, 8 their
practices are economically sound, the magazine says. The report also indicates
that social 9 may be the enemy of
contentment in career. People are flocking in greater numbers to careers in the
law, medicine and architecture. Yet recent surveys of job satisfaction in those
professions 10 a less-than-rosy
picture.
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