According to research done by RWC’s Department of Office Information Technology (OIT), the Ohio Office of Workforce Development has speculated that there will be an increase in OIT jobs in Ohio by the year 2014. Jobs with projected increases include the following:
Medical Assistant (42% increase)
Medical Billing Technicians/Medical Transcriptionists (20%)
Software Specialists (16.21%)
Computer Support Specialists and Web Programmers (15%)
Administrative Managers (10%)
Legal Secretaries (10%)
Similar projections were made by the US Department of Labor in 2004, with increases by 2014 according to the following percentages:
Medical Assistants (52%)
Medical Billing (28%)
Computer Support Specialists, Webpage Managers and Programmers (22%)
Medical Transcriptionists (20%)
Software Specialists and Administrative Managers (16%)
Meeting and Event Planners (15%)
While the administrative positions listed above are growing progressively, alongside Computer Support Specialists, Medical Assistants are anticipated to increase in the U.S. by 52% by the year 2014 and 42% in Ohio.