Careers Read November 16

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BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Roughly two-thirds of the highest-paying and fastest-growing jobs in fields like design and marketing now demand computer science skills, according to a new report from labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies and Oracle Academy.
In roles across the job market—design, engineering and production, marketing, and data analysis—employers are requesting skills in coding and data analysis, according to the report, "Rebooting Jobs: How Computer Science Skills Spread in the Job Market."
"This shows that computer science education is vital to future earnings, and an important equity issue."
"Living wage jobs in the future will require some level of computer science knowledge," said Alison Derbenwick Miller, vice president of Oracle Academy.
The report, based on Burning Glass's analysis of more than 100 million job postings between 2014-16, also examines skills in demand for programming/information technology roles as a benchmark.
About Burning Glass Technologies Burning Glass Technologies delivers job market analytics that empower employers, workers, learners, and educators to make data-driven decisions.
These roles are "hybrid jobs," that demand a mix of skills skills from different domains.

2 things that surprised you
- two thirds of the highest paying jobs now are demanding computer science skills
- that how far technology has come from where we started when we didn't even know what a computer was


How has this reading changed your thinking about your future?

This has changed my thinking about my future by educating us on computer science skills and how it is needed in the future. These skills can and will replace all these other jobs which require you to do the same thing over and over again.