What do you need to be to earn a lot? 30 professions of the future

What is in demand on the labor market now?

Sometimes it takes up to six months or more to find the right specialist. That’s why companies have started to pay a lot of attention to cooperation with universities, creating their own internship programs or their own corporate universities. This approach makes it possible to develop the necessary experts who are initially integrated into the corporate culture, rather than looking for people on the market as the need arises.

Nevertheless, there are certain trends in the market. They allow us to assess which professions will be most in demand. This means that they will be highly paid in the near future and in the more distant future.

IT specialists have been considered the most successful professions for many years. This is indeed true, especially against the background of their outflow in recent times.

However, one should realize that companies mostly need experienced professionals who are capable of solving the tasks of restructuring business processes. Therefore, university graduates should be prepared for the fact that their salary expectations may not immediately coincide with reality. You need to build up your experience first.

As already mentioned, industrial production needs engineers and technical specialists. Which spheres especially? The oil and gas industry and the military-industrial complex. Since the demand for such specialists is high today, the monetary compensation offered to them is quite good.

A separate area where demand for specialists is expected to grow is sales. In conditions when the economy is going through turbulence and the decision to buy both at the household and business levels is made as consciously as possible, competent “salespeople” are literally hunted. Accordingly, their salaries are growing. In sales, most often the income is made up of a fixed salary and interest.

Looking further ahead, there will inevitably be a demand for sustainable development specialists who are responsible for the careful use of all the organization’s resources. We are talking about nature, people and finance.

This work requires the ability to look at the situation “from above”: to analyze business processes inside the company, external trends and how they affect the organization, what risks they create for it and how they can be mitigated.

We would like to emphasize the need for digital transformation specialists. At first glance, this profession is part of the pool of IT specialties. However, it also requires a combination of skills and knowledge from different industries. Today, digital technologies penetrate into business from any sphere and can greatly facilitate the solution of many tasks. Also optimize the expenditure of financial, human and time resources. This requires specialists who are not only able to program a particular process, but also understand which specific elements of a business should be subjected to digital transformation.

What to pay attention to when choosing a profession?

In any case, today’s students should not rely on the list of the best-paid professions at the moment or next year when choosing a profession. It should be understood that the speed of change in the world will continue to increase. This means that the most in-demand skills will be the ability to learn, flexibility of thinking and adaptability.

You can choose a profession that you like, that seems fascinating, master basic “hard” skills for it, and try yourself. After all, a good specialist is in demand in any case.

But it is definitely necessary to be ready for the fact that this profession can change even during the period of study at the university. The level of technological development may require mastering additional skills. For example, working with neural networks and artificial intelligence.

However, the level of salary depends not only on the industry, but also on a person’s expertise and qualifications. It is possible to earn a high income in almost any field, it is a matter of competence, continuous learning and personal ambition. And it is important to keep this in mind both for beginners and school leavers when choosing a professional path.

At the beginning of one’s career, one cannot hope for super-profits even in IT. You have to be prepared for the fact that the starting salary, depending on the region and the level of the company, will be on average 30,000-50,000 roubles. And only after the employee has gained the necessary work experience and sufficient competencies will the employer be ready to conduct a review and revise the salary.

Therefore, when choosing a profession, you should first of all be guided by personal interests and inclinations. It is more important to engage in a favorite business, and not to pursue solely material goals.

Work, from which the eyes burn, helps to self-realize and achieve really high results. Courses and career guidance tests, advice from loved ones who see that you do better. And, of course, experience – you need to try yourself in different directions and look for your own.

30 professions that will be in demand in the future

1. product- and project-managers

These managers are responsible for creating the product, working out the strategy of its development. They are responsible for all the processes needed to launch and work smoothly.

2. virtual and alternative reality development engineers

Such a specialist creates software and hardware for user interaction with the virtual world. His tasks include the development of AR/VR technologies, their adaptation in different industries.

3. IT specialists

This is one of the most prestigious professions today. Russia is currently experiencing a shortage of qualified IT specialists. The most in demand are specialists at the middle level. Those who have work experience of one to three years. By the way, IT specialists are needed in completely different fields: from medicine to the oil and gas sector.

4. Sales specialists

When the economy is unstable, good salespeople play an important role here. There is a certain specialty in this profession. They have a fixed salary and a percentage of sales made. Therefore, while searching for vacancies, the amount in the pay conditions can be given as an approximate amount.

The field for sales also matters if we are talking about high salaries. Good salaries in raw materials, agro-industry, business aviation, online learning and construction.

5. Architect of green cities

A specialist who designs buildings, neighborhoods, and even cities with environmental requirements in mind. Many people think that this is only about separate garbage collection. No, it’s about using natural energy sources. It’s about wind or rainwater.

6. Media policeman

Today media plays a big role in our life. Therefore, people who will fight against illegal content are important. This is the same law enforcement officer but with a narrower focus. They also investigate crimes but in the virtual world. Many people today are faced with cyberbullying, collision and internet fraud.

7. environmental analyst in the extractive industries

His tasks include analyzing the environmental situation in companies in the extractive industries. These are mills, plants, factories that process minerals, oil production and refining industries.

The specialist makes decisions on how to properly extract minerals so as not to harm the nature. Or reduce it to a minimum.

8. Expert in personalized medicine

Genetics is considered one of the main fields in medicine today. Not just an attending physician, but a specialist who knows how to conduct and interpret DNA tests. Such a medical professional will design treatments for patients taking into account their genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and metagenomic markers.

9. Bioethicist

Medicine is not standing still. Advancement in technology gives new professions. For example, bioethicist. This is work at the intersection of medicine, technology and law. His duties are to organize communication between a person and doctors, lawyers, geneticists. He helps to solve difficult medical and biological cases.

10. Developer of cyber prosthetics and implants

Otherwise, they are also called medical engineers. They work in tandem with designers and roboticists. The team creates various medical devices that integrate with the human body. For example, bionic prostheses that help restore necessary body functions.

11. Brain implant specialist

A complex but very highly paid profession. A specialist who designs, selects and maintains devices that are connected to the patient’s brain or even installed inside.

12. medical marketer

Not only doctors are needed in the medical field, but also medical marketers. This is an expert in marketing healthcare companies in the market. He is responsible for promoting the services of clinics and pharmaceutical companies.

13. Genetic Engineer

A scientist who creates new organisms with altered genes. He performs duties such as designing an organism with specified properties. This could be frost resistance or a plant with a high yield. Also, this specialist is responsible for making sure that changes in the genes of plants and animals are safe for humans.

14. Medical robot operator

This kind of employee works with adjusting, customizing, programming diagnostic, therapeutic, and surgical robots. Ensures safe use. These machines help medical professionals perform procedures. Including complex cardiovascular or plastic surgery procedures.

15. IT Preacher

The person in this position promotes discoveries in the field of new technology. Breakthroughs in IT happen all the time, but few people know about it. To bring this to a wide audience is their task. Such is done through writing materials, blogging and podcasts, presentations.

16. Data journalist

There is also a new niche in journalism that is extremely relevant right now. This is a professional who analyzes and collects big data. On this basis, he writes materials, shoots stories, etc.

17. Head of Digital Transformation

This job involves improving and fixing current processes and creating new products using digital tools, marketing and analytics.

18. IT Architect

It is often also called a software architect. Such a developer is responsible for creating the architecture of a complex IT system and artificial intelligence. Among other things, he systematizes documentation, technical documents. Participates in the development of technical specifications. Roughly speaking, turns the desired software characteristics into a structured solution with the customer’s technical requirements.

19. AI-ethics specialist

This specialist deals with moral and ethical problems of artificial intelligence work. This is responsibility for wrongdoing, control over the observance of intellectual property rights.

20. Digital Garbage Disposer

An expert in the field of Big Data, whose duties include: sorting, systematizing and removing unnecessary data on physical media and cloud servers.

21. Compositing Engineer

The profession entails designing new materials to produce certain parts. It can involve completely different fields. But the most in demand is the field of robotics.

22. Designer of new modes of transportation

An expert who designs and maintains modern modes of transportation on water and land, in the air. The specialist uses new methods and means of construction and computer modeling.

23. unmanned transportation lawyer

A lawyer who helps with support in the operation, manufacture, purchase, lease, sale, or insurance of unmanned vehicles.

24. Designer of wearable energy devices

The position involves designing all closet items from clothing to accessories. All of them can generate electricity on their own. This is possible with the help of special materials that look and feel similar to the fabrics we are used to. However, microchips are imprinted in them.

25. BIM designer

The expert creates the visual part for the Building Information Model. He also collects project documentation and translates drawings into 3D format.

26. Smart Home Infrastructure Designer

He designs, installs and customizes the smart home control system of an AI-equipped home.

27. 3D printing designer in the construction industry

3D printing is a popular and, most importantly, a promising field. Today, even designers create buildings using 3D printing. Here you need to select materials, and develop the shapes of future houses, and analyze the climate. This is done in the program, after which the printer prints everything in full size.

28. Designer of new fabrics

A specialist develops innovative fabrics with certain properties. As a rule, these are “smart” materials. They are able to change colors based on human body temperature. They can self-clean, memorize the shape of the body, accumulate solar energy, and light up in the dark.

29. Cybersecurity specialist

Today it is very important and relevant as never before. Such specialists are in demand in almost any sphere. What do they do? Provide protection of the IT system from hacking and other hacker attacks. Specialists help to avoid disruptions in work and data leakage.

30. Cyber Investigator

A new profession, but in demand. It is an IT security specialist. He searches for and suppresses cybercrimes. The worker is also responsible for prevention in cyberspace.