Batteries, heath care, tech are fields of the future

Hot jobs. Hot jobs. Get 'em while they're hot. The Great Lakes IT Report held a panel last week to discuss where the "hot jobs" are in Michigan's future. You'll see the usual suspects like health care and tech oriented jobs, but also battery production, database management, and project management. An interesting little mix.

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Batteries, health care, advanced manufacturing, SAP and Citrix, database management, project management and civil engineering are where the jobs will be in the Detroit metro area.

That's what panelists said at the Great Lakes IT Report's Last Thursdays Unwired event at Lawrence Technological University last week.

Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, a panelist at the event, said the No. 1 opportunity for jobs is in battery technology.

"Metro Detroit will wind up with thousands of battery jobs from companies like A123 as electric and hybrid vehicles begin rolling off the assembly line, and as Ford Motor Co. starts building electric and hybrid vehicles in Wayne and General Motors starts building the Chevrolet Volt in Brownstown Township ... various engineering disciplines will be in high demand as a result."

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