Morkes, Andrew

Provides an overview of more than twenty-five careers that have been identified by the U.S. Department of Labor as offering the highest pay, fastest employment growth, and most new jobs through 2018, with each article providing an overview of job duties, educational requirements, interviews with workers in the field and more.

Presents a comprehensive resource guide to seventy-five college majors and programs unknown to many counselors and educators.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide descriptions of over nine hundred professions, providing information about the requirements, work environment, salary, and future outlook for each job or career field, and includes advice on preparing for a career, and finding and applying for a job, as well as articles on various aspects of being employed.

Bail bondsmen--Bailiffs--Bank examiners--Biotechnology patent lawyers--Bounty hunters--Corrections officers--Court reporters--Crime analysts--Deputy U.S. Marshals--Dectectives--Forensic experts--Intellectual property lawyers--Judges--Lawyers--Legal secretaries--Paralegals--Parole officers--Police officers--Polygraph examiners--Process servers.

Defines nineteen governemnt careers in terms of the nature of the work, educational or training requirements, ways to get started, advancement possiblities, salary figures, employment outlook, and sources of more information.