♪ ♪ >> My major is machine tool technologist and I have to deal with machines.

You know, and all kind of gauges and doing things like that.

I tell it because I like working with my hands.

And plus you have computers in it too.

So it's not just manual labor.

You get a chance to really think.

>> My major is dental hygiene.

I chose that major because I was an assistant for about a year and a half, and it was assisting got to be a routine matter.

and I wanted more out of the area of dentistry than assisting and hygiene pays more money than assisting.

And you're in a sense, your own boss to a certain extent.

>> Well, presently the employment outlook, in the area is good, and I should think, national wide would be very good also.

As you know, today, with all the emphasis put on prevention, preventive medicine.

And this is one of the functions, in my opinion, of the hygienist.

Her role is really preventive and with all the emphasis being placed on preventive medicine, I should think that there are going to be many opportunities, many job openings, many places that the hygienist can move into and find employment and be, of a real service.

>> In the next 10 to 15 years, this will probably be the emerging job field, that of the delivery of legal services.

It's right behind, actually, the computer science area, which, is really, I think, personally the birth of the need for the legal services.

>> The Department of Education has indicated that by 1984, there will be a need for 500,000 application programmers in America.

They have no idea where those people are going to come from.

The colleges are not producing sufficient numbers of technicians to fill those gaps.

Systems analyst there will be a need for some 200,000 individuals.

Once again, the Department of labor has no idea where those people are going to come from.

The colleges and universities are not producing enough people to fill those gaps.

Bill Terrell> Today on the Job Man Caravan, jobs that are predicted to be in demand through the 80s with entertainment breaks from Skyy and Dynasty, you.

♪ Hi!

It's predicted that more people in this country than ever before workers that he is have college degrees.

As a matter of fact, workers 25 through 64, you'll find that one out of every four has a college degree that's opposed to ten years ago, when only one out of seven in this age group had a college degree.

Even with college degrees, some people find themselves unemployed.

That unemployment is because the training that they have is not in keeping with the jobs that are open today.

So today on the Job Man Caravan, we're going to take a look at some of those jobs that are supposed to be in demand through the 80s.

And this week, some jobs that require post-secondary education and training, but less than a college degree.

>> The major role of a dental hygienist is to help people prevent problems with their teeth, so that they're basically a preventive therapist.

They they spend most all of their education in dealing with how to help people prevent dental problems.

It's an exciting and very, challenging career, mostly because you're dealing with people and everyone is different.

So that, as you respond, you can't always do the same thing with every person.

You have to have a basis of psychology and sociology and a strong background in public health, so that you can interact with people in all kinds of settings.

It seems to require a person who is basically outgoing and, has an interest in, in other people and in how they can help them if they're looking for something that is exciting, and it's a challenge if they enjoy working with people.

I think that this is a career that would be very enticing to both male and female.

It is a predominantly female, ...role.

I'm not just real sure why, but, I do know of some fellows who have entered dental hygiene that... that, enjoyed it very much.

So it's really not a closed career for, for, women.

We would encourage fellows to apply too.

Terrell> Employment of computer technicians is expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through the 1980s.

When computer equipment breaks down, technicians must find the cause of the failure and make repairs.

They often help to install new equipment.

Most employers require applicants for technician trainee jobs to have 1 to 2 years post-high school training in basic electronics or electrical engineering.

A high school student interested in becoming a computer service technician should take courses in mathematics, physics, electronics and computer programing.

Computer operators jobs are also expected to increase during the 1980s.

>> Well, I guess the best way to, visualize what an application programmer does is to imagine a player piano representing a computer system, and that player piano has an operator who inserts the music into the piano itself.

Now the application programmer, he would write the music that would run inside of that player piano.

The player piano is a program.

I mean, the player piano music is a program.

And, that programmer writes, perhaps a payroll program, or he writes, a savings program that will compute interest on specific accounts.

And, he writes that information in a very logical structure for the, the computer system.

Some of my best programmers are musicians and mechanics.

People who have a mathematical background often make good application programmers.

Individuals who like to work.

Word puzzles.

Who enjoy working with the Rubik's Cube.

Who enjoy working with puzzles and can spend long periods of time working the solution to those puzzles.

They make excellent application programmers.

Terrell> Jobs predicted to be on the increase through the 80s will continue after this Job Man Caravan entertainment break with Dynasty.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> In the last ten years, there appears to be several, changes in the economy and the job opportunities available to students, that are graduating from high school.

Some of the things I think that are becoming more attractive to people are data processing, the use of computers.

Different areas in the health field, physical therapists, veterinarians.

And of course, nursing is a growing area.

In the last ten years, it's always been employment in nursing, and we've had a lack of nursing.

But in the last ten years, I think there is a greater demand for, technical and professional nurses, in the United States, when we are interviewing, for our candidates in nursing, we, of course, like to have, number one, that they are a caring person, that they have a humanistic outlook.

In the market today, this may not always be the truth because, the, employment and opportunities are there.

You can look in the paper and there is advertisements for nursing.

But we do like for them to be, number one, a caring person, and then to have the intellectual ability to complete the program.

Different schools have different entrance requirements from a scholastic point of view.

But we in our program look at the SAT, which is a nationally used test.

And each type of program requires different kinds of scores on this.

You can become a nurse by going to a practical program.

Generally those are, our program is seven, five quarters in length, and then the RN program is seven quarters in length.

And then of course, you have the baccalaureate programs, which are four years in length, but each of these have different entrance scholastically requirements, for, for the program, but generally, if a student has the ability and the sincere interest in becoming a nurse, it's usually, accomplishable for her.

It's a hard program.

It's not easy.

They have to learn to discipline themselves as far as, being able to, have versatile schedules.

And of course, in the employment market, working evenings and nights.

And this is not, attractive to a lot of people who have children.

But then again, that might be the best thing.

Some people like to work nights when they have children.

So it's attractive in that way, that it is flexible in the sense that people can find jobs on different shifts.

The other thing that we are seeing in nursing is that the more mature student is coming into nursing.

People who have had their families and, are, are looking to get back into the work working market, either for economics or the fact that they raised their children, their children are out of the nest and they're looking for some other way to focus their interest.

We have students who have dropped out of nursing programs to have a family and are coming back.

So I would say that the ...more successful at this time has been the more mature person that has children and is has their goals and mind of what they want to do.

Terrell> In addition to nurses and dental hygienists, surgical technicians and health records technologists jobs are expected to grow.

Another field of growth predicted for the 80s is that for travel agents, >> Well, we're here to help people plan their trips, their vacations or, business travel, group tours, anything like that.

We can write airline tickets, hotel reservations, car...reservations.

We can book the Amtrak for them.

We can put together tours to any place from one day to three, four months a year, anything they want.

We also book cruises.

Terrell> There's an old saying that does not always hold true, and that is that preparation is a key note to success.

Some people have prepared themselves, but yet and still can't find a job.

That is because the education or the training that a person has sometimes means that, well, a job may not be available in that field.

We'd like to help you and advise you that you should do some research to try to find out those jobs that are supposed to be increasing in demand, or will probably be ready or open when you're ready for the job market, your guidance counselor trip to the library, or watching the Job Man Caravan.

As a matter of fact, we continue to look at jobs that are supposed to be on the increase through the 80s that require post-secondary education and training, but less than a bachelor's degree.

Research tells us that some jobs, such as key punch operators, postal clerks and telephone operators are some of the positions being phased out by automation and new technology retraining is flourishing in this country.

Private and public technical schools all over the nation are prospering.

According to Black Enterprise magazine and other sources, fewer business and social science graduates are expected to be hired, and future engineering graduates are expected to gain employment in 1983.

Four of the 12 top rated occupations, job opportunity wise, are in the high tech electronics field.

Some jobs in the medical profession are also expected to grow.

Last year alone, 100,000 new hospital workers were added to the employment roles.

One of the strongest job areas in recent years has been the clerical field.

These jobs increased by 30% between 1972 and 1980, and between now and 1990, the clerical field is expected to grow by at least 3.6 million more jobs.

Most of these new jobs, however, will require new skills.

A look at more jobs expected to be on the increase through 1990 that require post-secondary education and training.

But less than a bachelor's degree will continue after this Job Man Caravan entertainment break with Skyy.

"Call Me" ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Well, a paralegal can do most of the things that, persons would imagine an attorney to do other than the obvious, which are such as appear in court.

Obviously, paralegals cannot appear in court, representing persons.

They cannot give legal advice.

And as long as they are working under the direct supervision of an attorney who remains ultimately responsible to the client.

Then there's no real limit as to what a paralegal can do.

Paralegals, their presence in the law office allows attorneys to perform other services for, other sectors of society at a much lower rate.

The paralegal only requires, in some situations, six months or a year's worth of training.

There's a big variety in the methods of paralegal education, but the point I'm making is attorney who may be charging 150 $200 an hour for, in court time or much more.

And in certain areas, doesn't have to charge the senior citizens, the unemployed, the people who really have problems like those kind of fees.

If he can have those services performed by a paralegal who may, you know, be billing at $20 or 25 or $35 an hour, depending on the jurisdiction.

These figures can vary very wildly from small town in south Alabama to San Francisco or New York City.

Paralegals can do legal research.

That is one vital area.

Paralegals also can, get involved in processing functions in the office through the use of word processing equipment, any information processing system.

We've come a long way in that area from the memory typewriter now to these, systems, which can do office billing.

They can do docket control.

They can take care of when attorneys have to go into court, when they have to answer particular pleadings in a lawsuit, when they want to review a particular file.

The whole office can be automated, in fact.

The whole practice of law is evolving into a systems orientation and by systems orientation, I mean, simply a method of completing tasks and, this method does not necessarily have to be automated through a computer.

It can be done through a person.

For example, in a simple action, we could take all the forms which are going to be required to commence a lawsuit, the summons and the complaint, depending on what jurisdiction.

They have different names.

Or in the area of perhaps estate planning or drafting up wills and stuff.

Many forms are used, often reputationally they should be programmed into a word processing system so they can be immediately printed out with the paralegal or the secretary or whatever person that office assigned to that task.

Basically sort of filling in the blanks under the attorney's direction, the ideal candidate for a paralegal would be someone who has good reading and writing skills.

That's about as basic as we could get, but it's invariably true.

My own background before law school was in English, I was an English major, and I think it helped me infinitely.

If people can communicate their ideas both orally and in writing, these are the two main credentials I feel that required to work in the paralegal area.

People have to be a little outgoing.

Also, it's not a position for the retiring type person that wants to stay in the background.

Paralegalism is a profession.

People are not trained to put both A in place B and make X dollars an hour.

And you know, that's basically their job.

A paralegal has to produce.

They have to... it is a profession.

It's certainly not the highest paid profession and one that perhaps we think of normally.

But there are paralegals making really good money and a lot of them in major cities.

Terrell> Jobs for employment interviewers are expected to increase by nearly 50% during the 80s.

>> As a placement interviewer, our main function is to help our applicants find employment.

They look through our JIS listings, make their job selections.

Then we will go over their job work history, make sure that they qualify for the positions that they do choose out of our booklet.

If they meet the qualifications, then we will refer them to that employer.

Terrell> We certainly hope that you're not looking down but looking up and forward to next week.

>> A systems analyst, first, I think we should, establish a definition of what a systems analyst is, and I think we can best do that by giving giving an example, let's quickly compare the computer to a typewriter.

A writer, for example, is a writer.

A typewriter is a machine.

The computer is a machine.

An analyst as an individual who brings, a certain knowledge or expertise to this area, and he uses the computer as a tool.

>> The employment outlook is great.

Therapists now especially, are beginning or more people beginning to realize the importance of a physical therapist so that the demand for this occupation is amazing.

Almost any place you can go, somewhere they need a therapist, a physical therapist.

>> A speech language pathologist is involved in a number of different tasks.

Number one, the speech language pathologist is is involved in the evaluation diagnosis of persons with communication disorders.

He or she provides, therapy and he or she has to be a consultant to persons, often not related to the field.

>> There are several alternatives a person could choose, to enter the field of architecture to become an architect.

I guess the, most followed track is to enter an accredited school of architecture and, receive a five year degree in architecture, which would be a Bachelor of Architecture degree.

Another alternative would be to enter a four year degree program or less.

After completing the educational requirements, a person will have to obtain a certain amount of training, which is called apprenticeship, the minimum amount of time being three years.

That would be for a person with a five year degree.

Terrell> Next week, we'll take a look at some of the jobs that require at least a bachelor's degree and are predicted to be on the increase through the 80s.

And Job Man entertainment breaks will come from Gadsden and Peabo Bryson.

Until then, on behalf of the staff of the Caravan, we thank you for joining us.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪