Minority Career News
April - June 2001

Trends, Trends, Trends!
By MCN Staff

Occupation Trends:

Growth
• Computer-support specialists
• Database administrators
• Paralegals and legal assistants
• Personal-care and Home-health aides
• Social and human-service assistants

  Decline

• Word processors/Typists
• Computer operators (except peripheral-equipment operators)
• Garment sewing-machine operators
• Bank Tellers
• Farmers/Farm workers
  Source: Fast Company, Bottom Line Publications

Industry Growth Trends:

• Energy
• Telecommunications
• Engineering/Construction
• Healthcare
• Retail/Personal services
  Source: Fortune Publication

Top 10 Preferred Workplace Companies:

Among MBAs
• Coca-Cola
• Deloitte Touch Tohmatsu
• Microsoft
• Boston Consulting Group
• McKinsey
• Goldman Sacks
• Walt Disney
• Booz Allen and Hamilton
• Morgan Stanley Dean Witter*
• Bain
  Source: Fast Company Publication; *recent name change

Among Women
• Sears Roebuck & Company
• Brystol Myers Squibb
• Owens-Corning*
• Colgate-Palmolive
• Hewlett-Packard
• American Express
• Cigna
• Lincoln National Corporation
  Source: Working Woman Publication

Among African Americans
• Proctor & Gamble
• Microsoft
• Motorola
• Merck & Company, Inc.
• IBM
• Hewlett-Packard
• Lucent Technologies
• Anderson Consulting
• General Motors and General Electric
  Source: National Black MBAA Publication

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