Top 100 computer and technical careers : your complete guidebook to major jobs in many fields at all training levels / Michael Farr.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Part 1: Using The Job-Match Grid To Choose A Career -- Part 2: Descriptions Of The Top 100 Computer And Technical Careers -- Actuaries -- Agricultural and food scientists -- Aircraft and avionics equipment mechanics and service technicians -- Aircraft pilots and flight engineers -- Architects, except landscape and naval -- Armed forces -- Atmospheric scientists -- Audiologists -- Automotive body and related repairers -- Automotive service technicians and mechanics -- Biological scientists -- Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators -- Cardiovascular technologists and technicians -- Chemists and materials scientists -- Chiropractors -- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians -- Computer and information systems managers -- Computer control programmers and operators -- Computer programmers -- Computer scientists and database administrators -- Computer software engineers -- Computer support specialists and systems administrators -- Computer systems analysts -- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers -- Conservation scientists and foresters -- Dental assistants -- Dental hygienists -- Dentists -- Desktop publishers -- Diagnostic medical sonographers -- Diesel service technicians and mechanics -- Dietitians and nutritionists -- Drafters -- Economists -- Electrical and electronices installers and repairers -- Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers -- Elevator installers and repairers -- Emergency medical technicians and paramedics -- Engineering and natural sciences managers -- Engineering technicians -- Engineers -- Environmental scientists and hydrologists -- Geoscientists -- Heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers -- Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment services technicians and mechanics -- Industrial machinery mechanics and maintenance workers -- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses -- Machinists -- Mathematicians -- Medical and health service managers -- Medical records and health information technicians -- Medical scientists -- Medical transcriptionists -- Medical, dental, and ophthalmic laboratory technicians -- Millwrights -- Nuclear medicine technologists -- Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians -- Occupational therapists assistants and aides -- Occupational therapists -- Operations research analysts -- Opticians, dispensing -- Optometrists -- Pharmacists -- Pharmacy aides -- Pharmacy technicians -- Photographers -- Photographic process workers and processing machine operators -- Physical therapist assistants and aides -- Physical therapists -- Physician assistants -- Physicians and surgeons -- Physicists and astronomers -- Podiatrists -- Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers -- Precision instruments and equipment repairers -- Prepress technicians and workers -- Printing machine operators -- Psychologists -- Radiation therapists -- Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers -- Radiologic technologists and technicians -- Registered nurses -- Respiratory therapists -- Sales engineers -- Science technicians -- Semiconductor processors -- Small engine mechanics -- Social scientists, other -- Speech-language pathologists -- Stationary engineers and boiler operators -- Statisticians -- Surgical technologists -- Surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying and mapping technicians -- Teachers-postsecondary -- Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and editors -- Tool and die makers -- Urban and regional planners -- Veterinarians -- Veterinary technologists and technicians -- Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators -- Part 3: Quick Job Search: Seven Steps To Getting A Good Job In Less Time -- Part 4: Important Trends In Jobs And Industries -- Tomorrow's jobs -- Employment trends in major industries -- STEM occupations: high-tech jobs for a high-tech economy -- Index.

Product Description: Explore 100 careers focused on computer and other technologies, assess which ones match your skills, and get the job you want quickly with this authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything they need to research careers; learn about pay, outlook, education, and skills for the 100 jobs; match their personal skills to the jobs; and take seven steps to land a good job in less time.