Aged care is one of the best industries for job growth and stability. Photo: Peter Braig
Start planning for a job in hospitality or aged care, if you want to shore up your future employment options. That’s the message from Australia’s leading demographer Bernard Salt. Other careers to consider include health and aged care, education, and work in cafes and restaurants.
Salt, who was addressing HR and recruitment managers at a Clarius Group industry breakfast, also identified science, technology, mining and public administration, and those jobs related to construction, as areas of greatest opportunity over the next decade.
His predictions are based on detailed studies of growth in these sectors in recent years and demographic trends which sees increased immigration, particularly from China, India and the Philippines, an aging population and the behaviour of Gen Y’s who are ‘stretching out’ their adolescence.
Salt says the main game is in health care and social assistance which currently employs more than 360,000 people. This is largely being driven by the aging population.