Emerging and evolving occupations in Texas : a descriptive analysis of forty-seven occupations / developed by the Texas State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee for students, job-seekers, workforce development professionals, and educators
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2014-09-16Author
Texas State Occupational Information
Coordinating Committee
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In the first year of the study, a methodology was developed to identify target industries with the
best possibility for employing emerging and evolving occupations. Using existing labor market
information and industry payroll titles, a list of candidate occupations was created. The second
year of the study, whose findings are presented in this report, focused on validating the candidate
list with industry experts and collecting descriptive variables for the resulting list of emerging
and evolving occupations. This is not offered as an exhaustive list of emerging and evolving
occupations in the state. The focus of the study had to be reduced to meet allotted time and
financial constraints. Therefore, stakeholders should not take the occupations listed here as
the only ones that are evolving and emerging in today's workplace.
Forty-seven titles are presented in this report as occupations with emerging or evolving skills,
duties, and/or tasks. These occupations are grouped into six industry-related clusters:
(1) information technology; (2) electronics manufacturing; (3) services; (4) telecommunications;
(5) transportation; and, (6) sanitation and environmental services. These six clusters and their
related occupations are presented in the table on the following page. Descriptive information
about industrial clusters and individual occupations follow in the text.