After graduating from high school, a student is usually told to take up a course that is in demand today. However, the problem is, after the student graduates from that 4-year course, that course has lowered in terms of demand. So, it is important that before you take up a course, you will first have to predict future demands so you will not end up graduating from a course that employers do not really need.
You should look into the economy and the direction technology is going in order for you to make a more reliable prediction. Ask yourself, in the next four to five years, where will the economy lead to? What jobs would be highly sought after? Asking these questions and doing lots of research online will help you find a course that you can use in order to have financial stability in the near future.
10 years back, Filipino nurses were so in demand in western countries, Europe and the Middle East. Filipino nurse went abroad rather than stay in the Philippines to get a job. Nurses in the Philippines only get a salary of 7000-10,000php a month. If they go abroad and work in US hospitals, they can earn up to 5 times that amount, or even more.
This reduced the number of nurses in the Philippines and in the US, most nurses in hospitals were Filipinos. Filipino nurses are more preferred because they are more caring and attentive to the sick. Filipinos are raised in a caring and loving environment, thus these characteristics are already instilled in their personalities. Thus, the families of these nurses encouraged their fresh graduates to take up nursing so they can have a good opportunity for employment abroad.
Sadly, when they graduated, the job no longer became in demand as the US announced that they would rather hire nurses from their own country. These days, the work that are in demand are agile project management and lean project management. These employees are needed in manufacturing and production industries. The lean managers would the create ways of manufacturing these with the least amount of expenses.
Are you looking for a career that will be in demand after you graduate? You should take up lean project management because this job is highly sought after in manufacturing industries.