Hi,
My name is Denise and I am working on a speech friendly web link for the GAp
clothing line. I need to do some research as to how accessible the already
existing gap.com currently is. If anyone could look at the site, check out
the on of the lines- mens's or women's and and also the customer service
component and let me know if the site is easy to navigate through and if the
text is converted to speech.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 7:01 AM
Subject: edu: hot jobs for the next decade
>You don't need to be a computer jock to take one of the hot jobs in the
>next 10 years, however being able to use information technology will be
>extremely helpful. The article below describes some of these career
>options. There is a link at the end to the Occupational Outlook handbook.
>
>kelly
>
>from the January/February Utney Reader
>
>URL: http://www.utne.com/lens98/society/hotjobs.html
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Hot Jobs
> Employed are the peacemakers, the storytellers, the healers...and you?
>
> With the economy now on a wild roller-coaster ride, with career paths
> taking sharp turns and sudden frightening drops, a lot of people are
> nervousvery nervous. What will happen to your job? How do you choose a
> profession that won't disappear in five years? The conventional
> wisdom, re-inforced daily by the business press, is to scramble any
> way you can to a field with a future: software engineering, say, or
> global marketing. Otherwise, you may end up the 21st century
> equivalent of a blacksmithtrained to do a job that hardly anyone
> needs. But a detailed look at the job prospects of tomorrow offers a
> more complicated and yet hopeful picture for people seeking an
> alternative to the typical lists of "hot jobs." Take a look at the
> federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook,
> which forecasts 50 million new jobs opening up by the year 2006, a net
> increase of 14 percent over 1996. Surely, there's something in there
> for you. It's easy to get lost in the bureau's minutiae and the wacky
> job titles (head sawyers, down 10 percent; shampooers, up 7 percent).
> But if you look long enough, patterns begin to emerge. The job outlook
> is bleak for people who do not acquire specialized skills
> (farmworkers, down 9 percent) or cannot adapt to technological change
> (telephone operators, down 9 percent). But it's much brighter for
> folks seeking something other than life as a computer jockey or
> corporate honcho. If you can heal people, resolve conflicts, or tell a
> good story, for instance, a good job is probably waiting.
>
> Healing
> These may account for 14 of the 30 fastest-growing jobs in the next
> decade. The 77 million baby boomers, now ages 36 to 53, are enduring
> an increasing burden of minor aches and chronic conditions, and their
> woes will create millions of new jobs for healers. As aging boomers
> search for relief, they will look beyond traditional Western medicine.
> The number of nationally certified massage therapists in the United
> States has quadrupled since 1990, according to the American Massage
> Therapy Association. The need for healing also will go beyond easing
> physical pain. Depression and major life changes become more prevalent
> in middle age, which is why the number of counseling therapists is
> projected to increase dramatically. And even the most well-adjusted
> 50-year-olds find themselves paying more attention to spiritual
> matters once a parent or close friend dies. The number of jobs for
> directors of religious activities and education in churches and
> temples may increase 36 percent. In all, over 100,000 new jobs for
> clergy and religious directors are expected between 1996 and 2006.
>
> Peacemakers
> The government expects the number of lawyers to increase 19 percent in
> the next decade, while the number of judges may increase only 2
> percent. The result will be worsening gridlock in the courts. At the
> same time, the demand for simpler, more humane ways of resolving
> disputes will increase for another reason. A pioneer generation of
> college-educated women joined the labor force in the 1970s and 1980s
> and is finally entering the ranks of top management. As managers,
> women are more likely than men to talk through conflicts instead of
> reaching for a hired gun. The first storefront businesses offering
> dispute mediation opened in the mid-1970s. Ten years ago, there were
> about 150 such centers; today there are at least 500 in the United
> States, and perhaps many more than that.
>
> Storytellers
> The explosion of media choices in the past decade includes the
> Internet, but it extends to cable television, CD-ROMs, home videos,
> specialty magazines, and other forms of entertainment. Thanks to the
> middle-aging of the population and rising education levels, the share
> of Americans who go to a concert, play, or art museum at least once a
> year rose from 41 percent in 1992 to 50 percent in 1997, according to
> the National Endowment for the Arts. And by several measures,
> entertainment is America's most powerful export product.
>
> The Bureau of Labor expects that the demand for writers, artists, and
> entertainers will increase 24 percent over the next decade, with a
> total of 772,000 new jobs in those fields. The bureau projects a 33
> percent increase in the number of jobs for musicians, 28 percent
> increases for artists/commercial artists and dancers/choreographers,
> and 26 percent for designers and interior designers. If you can tell a
> good story in music, movement, or pictures, someone probably wants to
> hire you.
>
> For people who tell their stories in words, the forecast is partly
> cloudy. Overall, the number of jobs for writers and editors is
> expected to increase at a good clip (21 percent). Yet this is a
> catchall category that includes everyone from the most exalted
> novelist (not many jobs available) to the lowliest writer of technical
> manuals (many more jobs available). The government apparently expects
> happy talk to do well, too: The number of jobs in public relations is
> expected to increase 27 percent. Yet the number of jobs for
> old-fashioned journalists (print and broadcast reporters) is expected
> to decline 3 percent. Yikes.
>
> Won't you take a moment and renew your subscription today?
>
> Brad Edmondson
>
> Brad Edmondson lives in Ithaca, New York. The 199899 edition of the
> Occupational Outlook Handbook is available for free at
> www.bls.gov/ocohome.htm.
>
>
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