Have you seen the very interesting 'Jobs of future index' created by cognizant ?

Have you seen the very interesting 'Jobs of future index' created by cognizant ? Their website says "To benchmark the emergence of new jobs, we have created the Cognizant Jobs of the Future Index© (CJoF Index). Our quarterly index explores the trends and patterns of 50 jobs. The index tracks 50 Jobs of future and is supposed to track the growth every quarter.

I  think it is a great initiative as it shows the technology trend and also the future prospects of 50 key technologies. I am going to keep a watch on this index and post my views on my blog.For now go to the URL and check the index or read my views as I update them on this post. 

The 2 job statistics that interest me are CIO & Data Scientist and here is what the report says.

1. CIO Jobs- For now what I have found is that the CIO/ Director of IT jobs have declined by a fraction from 2016 -2017 but increased by 50% over last 1 year and increased by 1.5% over last 1 quarter - Does that show a slow down this quarter in the very important CIO jobs? I guess not. 
2. Data Scientist Jobs- There is 80% increase in Data Scientist jobs over last 1 year - lovely!

According to the report over the past year (2018), the fastest growing jobs in the CJoF Index were:

• Fashion Designer: +279%
• Solar Engineer: +257%
• Career Counselor: +181%
• Social Media Strategist / Specialist: +172%
• Genetic Counselor: +163%

The slowest growing jobs in the CJoF Index over the past year were:

• Registered Nurse: +7%
• Biomedical Engineer: +10%
• Solar Installer: +12%
• Home Health Aide: +18%
• Aerospace Engineer: +27%

I think an index for India would differ from this one and nurses, solar installer, home health aide and even aerospace engineer to some extent would be featured in fastest growing jobs. These industries are picking up and there is enough scope for expansion in sectors like hospitals, solar for home, health care professionals for home. I understand there are few initiatives where indegeneous aircraft manufacturing is also happening in India though I would not call it job growth but there is increasing demand for aerospace service engineers to cater to growing number of air travelers.

Interesting figures.ad I hope #Cognizant modifies the website to filter the demand by country. This post was made on 30 Jan 2019 and will be updated periodically.