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Example:  Robert was hired to be a restaurant manager.  He was intelligent, physically fit, had a Bachelor's degree in business, and excelled at the store's training program.  Yet, after just a few months on the job, he was failing and was ready to be fired.  What happened?  His emotional intelligence did not fit the job.  He was non assertive, indecisive, too tolerant, and could not face problems as they developed.  As a result, his people did a poor job of serving the customers. 

Robert took the Simmons Personal Survey and learned about his positive traits as well as the ones that were getting in the way of his success.  He made some quality decisions and with effort, soon was the top manager in this restaurant company.  He went on to become a successful executive with the company and later became president of another company. 

Career Help from the U.S. Department of Labor:

Tomorrow's Jobs

Making informed career decisions requires reliable information about opportunities in the future. Opportunities result from the relationships between the population, labor force, and the demand for goods and services.

Population ultimately limits the size of the labor force—individuals working or looking for work—which constrains how much can be produced. Demand for various goods and services determines employment in the industries providing them. Occupational employment opportunities, in turn, result from demand for skills needed within specific industries. Opportunities for medical assistants and other healthcare occupations, for example, have surged in response to rapid growth in demand for health services.

Examining the past and projecting changes in these relationships is the foundation of the Occupational Outlook Program. This chapter presents highlights of Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of the labor force and occupational and industry employment that can help guide your career plans.

The long-term shift from goods-producing to service-providing employment is expected to continue. Service-providing industries are expected to account for approximately 18.7 million of the 18.9 million new wage and salary jobs generated over the 2004-14 period

Education and health services. This industry supersector is projected to grow faster, 30.6 percent, and add more jobs than any other industry supersector. About 3 out of every 10 new jobs created in the U.S. economy will be in either the healthcare and social assistance or private educational services sectors.............................

To read the rest of this career help article, click on this link: http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm 

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