Career Exploration: Industry Associations, Outlooks, & Trends

Partial list from the Encyclopedia of Associations

No single job suits all of us, but many of the best ones have a few attributes in common: They pay well, challenge us year after year, match our talents and skills, aren't too stressful, offer room to advance throughout our careers and provide a satisfying work-life balance. Whether the position is in demand is also a consideration, especially among job seekers.

From Center for the Future of Work, Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp. and World Economic Forum. 18 May 2021.

From the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Collection of reports, articles, blog posts, and podcasts from McKinsey.

Survey from Moneypenny on happiness at work and dream careers.

From Inc.com: When it comes to happiness at work, title and industry don't matter. Earned success and service to others do.

A report from the Washington State Auditor finds that good-paying jobs in the skilled trades are going unfilled. While a shortage of workers is pushing wages higher in the skilled trades, the financial return from a bachelor's degree is softening, even as the price of higher education goes up.

From The New York Times Magazine. Articles include: “Decades on the job, and counting,” “The $15 minimum wage,” “An office designed for workers with autism,” “America’s professional elite,” “The new labor movement,” "The Rise of the WeWorking Class," and “Why aren’t women advancing more in corporate America?”