Hot Careers

Helping Your Teenage Child Find the Path to Match His/Her Passions

As a parent, your role is to support and help guide your child through the exciting and perhaps a little scary transition between high school and college. It's a world of tremendous possibility and uncertainty. To help your child navigate the waters and give them the best chance at success, the key is finding a career path that matches their unique talents and interests. Help them map out the possibilities between their skills and passions and potential careers.

With so many choices, it might be hard for your child to pinpoint exactly what career to focus on. The following Career Fact Sheets outline the hot business, technology, healthcare technology and management careers predicted to grow exponentially in the near future. Use them to open your teenager's eyes to the vast career possibilities that exist in their world.

Here's Some Research to Guide the Way...

We've assembled informative career fact sheets to help your child explore the vast range of career options that are available in business, technology, healthcare technology and management. Check out these career fact sheets: download them, print them, and discuss them with your child to help them identify career paths that match their passions.

Each Career Fact Sheet includes:

  1. Growth statistics about specific career fields
  2. Descriptions of in-demand occupations within those fields
  3. General salary ranges for careers
  4. Relevant educational degree required for career entry

DeVry's Careers in Business fact sheet

In today's competitive business environment, new products, services and ideas are popping up worldwide. And employment opportunities for business professionals is expected to grow faster than average for all occupations through 2014 as industry and government will increasingly rely on qualified specialists to improve their organizations' performance. Help your child get on board to a successful business career!
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DeVry's Careers in Electronics fact sheet

Technology has changed the way we work, the way we play … nearly everything we do and how we do it. Help your child turn their passion in the power of electronics and computer-based technologies into a career that can help change the way the world works. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, career opportunities for electronics experts are projected to skyrocket through 2014.
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DeVry's Careers in Game and Simulation Programming fact sheet

The computer and video game industry posted sales of more than $12.5 billion in 2006. And today, with more people of all ages playing, this field is predicted to thrive for years to come. Career opportunities in simulation programming also exist in law enforcement and the military. Learn how your child can turn this phenomenal tech growth into a major career move.
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DeVry's Careers in Healthcare Technology fact sheet

Learn how to turn an interest in healthcare into a high-tech career. Healthcare is one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the country - with approximately 3.6 million new jobs projected to be created between 2004 and 2014. Job opportunities in this burgeoning field cater to professionals with a wide variety of skills and interests.
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DeVry's Careers in Information Systems fact sheet

Your child's fascination with computer games, programs and search engines could lead them straight into some of the hottest career fields ever. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Information Systems experts - who know that the power of the computer is what keeps today's business competitive in the global marketplace - are projected to be among the top 20 fastest growing occupations through 2012.
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DeVry's Careers in Networking fact sheet

Every time you use your cell phone, send an email, watch MTV, upload your own podcast or download someone else's, you're tapping into the power of extensive high-tech networks. These powerful systems bridge virtually every aspect of personal and business communications. Learn how your child can get connected to one of the country's fastest growing careers - expanding at a rate of more than 50% through 2014.
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DeVry's Careers in Security fact sheet

Today, security issues appear front and center in our daily news. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects above average growth in all security-related fields through 2014. Because of this heightened awareness and the ever growing need for security experts, preparing for a challenging career in the security field opens the door to career opportunities worldwide - not only in government and the military, but in business and industry as well. Read about careers in security management.
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DeVry's Careers in Technical Management fact sheet

In today's competitive global marketplace, the fastest growing and best paying opportunities require a minimum of a bachelor's degree to get a foot in the door. Learn how the associates degree or college credits your child may have earned could qualify toward completing his/her bachelor's degree and boosting their career in business, criminal justice or health information management. When they add technical skills and management capabilities to their resume, they'll find it easier to take advantage of abundant opportunities in these hot career fields.
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DeVry's Careers in Web Graphic Design fact sheet

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that, in 2006, Americans spent over $100 billion at online stores – up 26% from the previous year. To keep pace with rapid Internet growth, career opportunities for web graphic designers, already abundant at all levels, will dramatically increase. Whether your child is interested in animation or instructional design, the path to tomorrow's careers in web graphic design begins with the right training today. Find out how they could become an expert in this booming field.
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* For the 10-year period ending June 2007, 90% of U.S. DeVry graduates in the active job market were employed in their fields within 6 months of graduation.

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