Healthcare staffing is on the rise in Chicago and people looking to fulfill jobs within that industry might want to keep an eye on that region, according to the city’s Fox outlet.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel pegged healthcare and transportation as industries likely to develop quickly and the city announced a combined effort with City Colleges of Chicago to foment that strategy. Additional industries forecast to develop include distribution and logistics.
“We need skilled workers to rebuild our infrastructure, we need them to care for the sick; we need them to welcome the millions who visit Chicago each year in our hospitality industry; we need them to make the products people want to buy and to write the code that powers new technologies,” the mayor said, according to the news outlet. “But employers can’t find skilled workers and workers can’t find jobs.”
By 2020, the city will require roughly 75,000 people with healthcare careers. Thirty-three percent of those people will be equipped with Associate Degrees.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, half of the 20 most rapidly developing jobs are germane to healthcare. In the decade leading up to 2018, healthcare will create 3.2 million jobs.