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- Job security is one of the factors you might take into account when planning your career.
- Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we found ten industries with relatively low job growth in the last five years, and where workers tend not to stay in the same job for too long.
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Job security is one of the many factors you might take into account when planning your career. We found 10 industries that may not be the best options if you're looking for a long-term plan.
To get a sense of overall job security for different industry sectors, we looked at median job tenure as of 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, and the percent growth or decline in the number of people employed in each industry between March 2014 and March 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Industries that have high employment growth and where employees tend to stay in the industry for a longer period of time are likely to be better for those seeking job security, while slower-growing or shrinking industries and industries with shorter typical length of employment will probably be worse.
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We rescaled each of the two measures from 0 to 1, with 0 being the lowest value and 1 being the highest value, and averaged those two rescaled scores together to get an overall job security index.
Here are the 10 industries with the lowest scores on that index: