June 30, 2005 4:16 PM

Now hiring: hot jobs of the moment
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 4:16 PM

Things are definitely heating up in the job market, especially in certain segments, as this piece from the Christian Science Monitor (via WBUR) reports:

Although experts are quick to agree that the job market is not quite up to the late 1990s, when the economy was creating about 300,000 jobs per month, there are nevertheless numerous professions that are hiring as fast as the resumes come in.
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"The hot jobs are in the forefront of technology and medicine, or they are in the sweet spot of where the economy is growing like energy, healthcare services, financial controls, and international," says John Challenger of the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "Of the hot jobs, the most sustainable will be those where you can't be outsourced."