The 25 university careers with the greatest demand and future
Every year, after the entrance exam, thousands of young students have to decide which career they will study. Although some are very clear about it right from the start, others still have doubts.
Choosing a degree is an important decision, since four years can be very long if you don’t like what you’re doing or if you don’t see the future very clearly. The profession we choose will be with us for the rest of our lives and will even end up being part of our personality. The label I’m a psychologist, I’m a lawyer, I’m an engineer, etc., will follow us wherever we go.
Choosing a career: stability or vocation?
Of course, when it is time to decide and doubts arise, the question is always the same: do I opt for a career with good job prospects and a good salary? or, instead, do I opt for my great passion, knowing how difficult it is to achieve a promising future?
If your vocation is very well paid and coincides with a time when there is demand, you are in luck. However, if you feel from the bottom of your soul that you want to work in a professional field where it is difficult to make a living, then you are going to have to sweat it out. Not only that, but you’re going to have to adopt a hyper-positive attitude, and you may even have to wear a bombproof vest to stay motivated. Only you know the answers to these questions… and you may end up deciding with your heart.
Some tips for choosing a career
But if you are choosing a career and it’s a mess because you are one of those people who don’t even know what you want for dinner tonight, pay attention to these tips below and you might find it easier to make the decision .
1. Know thyself
If you don’t know who you are, you obviously won’t be able to know the career you want to take . Think about what you like to do, what motivates you and what gives meaning to your life.
- If you want to know how to carry out this process of self-knowledge, you can read our post: “Personal Development: 5 reasons for self-reflection”
2. Know your options
Once you have an idea of who you are, you can now look for the careers that fit your profile and for which you are sure you will endure those four years of hellish moments, especially at exam time. In this phase of the process you should look for as many options as possible. You will have to do a good search, but you will surely discover many options that you didn’t even know existed.
3. Think about the future
Keep in mind that people are constantly changing, and your goals, interests and tastes can vary greatly, as can your way of thinking, over the years that it will take you to get a career and build a career in that field.
It’s good that you look back and ask yourself since when you became interested in a certain university career and why that happened. Do you think it will have a path, or is it a passing obsession? Do you tend to abandon certain types of projects easily and not others?
4. Asking others for their opinion
Seeing how your opinions and those of others fit together is a good way to “triangulate” views and come to a more objective understanding of what the pros and cons of each option are.
If you have access to people who are studying one of the careers you are interested in, it is good that you listen to what they have to say, although you should bear in mind that their opinions will depend a lot on the university they have attended to study a certain career.
5. Assess the claim and decide
When you have decided on the careers you would like to take, look for the options you have to take one by one . You will have to evaluate different characteristics such as location or career opportunities, but never decide on a career you don’t like. It can be a decision that you will regret for the rest of your life.
The races with more demand, according to Adecco
If you want to know which are the most in-demand careers, Adecco made it easy for you. The human resources provider, based in Switzerland but operating throughout Spain, has drawn up a list of degrees with the best outlets and the best expectations for job searches. It must be taken into account that this ranking is from 2015 and that the job panorama is changing, since a profession with a lot of demand at present may not have it in 10 years.
Based on the criteria of the VII Infoempleo/Adecco 2016 Report on degrees with more career opportunities, this list can help you decide in case any of your options are in this top 25 of university degrees with better future prospects.
Don’t miss out on the 25 most popular university degrees in terms of job offers:
- Business Administration and Finance
- Computer Engineering
- Trade and Marketing
- Industrial Engineering
- Business Administration and Law
- Nursing
- Telecommunications Engineering
- Economy
- Labor Relations and Human Resources
- Psychology and Psychopedagogy
- Mechanical Engineering
- Hotels and Tourism
- Industrial Electronic and Automatic Engineering
- Philology, Linguistics and Literature
- Law and Criminology
- Medicine and Biomechanics
- Electrical Engineering
- Education and Pedagogy
- Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
- Architecture
- Chemical Engineering
- Agri-food and Rural Engineering
- Arts and Design
- Chemistry
- Communication, Image and Sound
ADE, Computer Engineering and Commerce and Marketing, the most demanded degrees
As you can see, Business Administration and Management (ADE) continues to be the career with the highest demand for employment , followed by Computer Engineering, and Commerce and Marketing. With respect to this last profession, it is interesting to note that, taking into account that the world of work is changing at a dizzying rate due to the rise of new technologies, one professional sector that is gaining ground is digital marketing.
Many companies are increasingly aware of the need to adapt to the new environment not only of business, but also of the interpersonal relationships and interaction generated in the 2.0 world. The digital era is here, and it is the present and future of the working environment and organizations.
Would you like to study psychology?
Without a doubt, psychology is one of the most attractive careers for new university students and is one of the favorites each year. It is not easy to carve out a professional future in this field, but with enthusiasm, effort, persistence and a positive mentality it is possible to work as a psychologist. If you want to know what some psychology professionals think about the Degree, you can click here and find out about the difficulty of the degree.
Now, to know the reasons why you should decide for this beautiful profession, from Psychology and Mind we can try to help you in this reflection, and we recommend you to read this article: “Why study Psychology? 10 points you should value”.