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Six out of the top 25 best jobs in 2024, according to Indeed’s latest Best Jobs Report, are related to mental health. The employment website notes that’s a 100% increase over 2023’s list and a 200% hike over the 2022 report.

“The strong presence of mental health roles on this year’s list not only speaks to the need for mental health professionals but also suggests further destigmatization of mental health issues in America,” says the report.

The six mental health-related jobs include:

In addition to health care positions, the full list finds manufacturing/construction (32%) and finance (18%) among the best jobs. Tech jobs are at 12%, according to the report.

The findings indicate stability in engineering positions, including electrical, mechanical, data, civil, quality, and senior engineers. The report says, “The strength of engineering careers makes sense when you consider that engineers provide the building blocks to countless tangible and intangible goods and services consumers rely on.

“Electronics, buildings, machinery and software are just a few examples of the products and services engineers work on.”

What’s Important to Job Seekers

The report notes, “For the purposes of this list and identifying the best opportunities available to job seekers, we are looking at the opportunities available that can satisfy the factors we know are important to job seekers and can be measured within a job title: salary and flexibility.”

It continues, “This, coupled with opportunity growth (% change year over year) and availability (share of job postings), we can identify our selection of the “best” opportunities for job seekers in the US today.”

A recent study finds job seekers continue to name “fair pay” and “flexibility” as important factors in their searches. The Best Jobs Report includes “jobs with a salary minimum above the U.S. national average and with at least 10% of postings that include terms to indicate ‘remote’ or ‘hybrid’ work.”

The Impact of AI

With AI currently at the forefront of workforce and education conversations, additional Indeed researchIndeed’s AI at Work – indicates, “Virtually every job will face some level of exposure to potential GenAI-driven change. But while GenAI can learn to do some tasks reasonably well, it is unlikely to fully replace many jobs – especially those that require manual skills and/or deep personal connections.”

The findings note, “Software development jobs have the highest potential exposure to GenAI augmentation. GenAI is “good” or “excellent” at 95% of the skills in software development postings, which includes technology and business operations skills.

“Driving jobs (like truck and taxi drivers) have the least potential impact by GenAI.”

Workers are Optimistic About Their Prospects

Indeed’s 2024 Workforce Insights Report – conducted last month by The Harris Poll – finds 69% of workers are optimistic about their job prospects this year.

The top reasons for seeking new employment are “higher pay (58%), better benefits (34%), and more flexible hours (26%).”

The Insights Report concludes, “Despite continued job optimism in 2024, many workers still encounter challenges along the way and barriers that keep them from applying: unclear salary ranges, lengthy and complicated application processes and a lack of certifications and formal education, to name a few.”

Read more of Indeed’s Best Jobs Report here.
Read Indeed’s 2024 Workforce Insights Report here.

Dana Beth Ardi

Executive Committee

Dana Beth Ardi, PhD, Executive Committee, is a thought leader and expert in the fields of executive search, talent management, organizational design, assessment, leadership and coaching. As an innovator in the human capital movement, Ardi creates enhanced value in companies by matching the most sought after talent with the best opportunities. Ardi coaches boards and investors on the art and science of building high caliber management teams. She provides them with the necessary skills to seek out and attract top-level management, to design the ideal organizational architectures and to deploy people against strategy. Ardi unearths the way a business works and the most effective way for people to work in them.

Ardi is an experienced business executive and senior consultant who leverages business organizational transformation through talent strategies. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop talent strategies to enhance revenue and profit contributions. She has a deep expertise in change management and organizational effectiveness and has designed and built high performance cultures. Ardi has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO’s and turnarounds.

Ardi is an expert on the multi-generational workforce. She understands the four intersecting generations of workers coming together in contemporary companies, each with their own mindsets, leadership and communications styles, values and motivations. Ardi is sought after to assist companies manage and thrive by bringing the generations together. Her book, Fall of the Alphas: How Beta Leaders Win Through Connection, Collaboration and Influence, will be published by St. Martin’s Press. The book reflects Ardi’s deep expertise in understanding organizations and our changing society. It focuses on building a winning culture, how companies must grow and evolve, and how talent influences and shapes communities of work. This is what she has coined “Corporate Anthropology.” It is a playbook on how modern companies must meet challenges – culturally, globally, digitally, across genders and generations.

Ardi is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Corporate Anthropology Advisors, LLC, a consulting company that provides human capital advisory and innovative solutions to companies building value through people. Corporate Anthropology works with organizations, their cultures, the way they grow and develop, and the people who are responsible for forming their communities of work.

Prior to her position at Corporate Anthropology Advisors, Ardi served as a Partner/Managing Director at the private equity firms CCMP Capital and JPMorgan Partners. She was a partner at Flatiron Partners, a venture capital firm working with early state companies where she pioneered the human capital role within an investment portfolio.

Ardi holds a BS from the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as a Masters degree and PhD from Boston College. She started her career as professor at the Graduate Center at Fordham University in New York.