While the manufacturing industry has always managed to pull Michigan workers out of financial turmoil, it will be specialized jobs that lead the unemployed out of the dark in 2015, according to a recent economic analysis by the University of Michigan. In fact, the latest data indicates that only 10 percent of the new positions offered in the new year will come in the form of blue-collar production jobs.

The rest will be career-based positions ranging from commercial truck drivers to computer hackers, which could sustain the state’s current problem of having more jobs available than qualified applicants. Nevertheless, companies across the state are in desperate need of a skilled workforce, which through a series of interviews with business professionals, the Detroit Free Press determined was most needed in the following professions:

1. Commercial Drivers

2. Ethical Hackers

3. Specialized Nurses and Nurse Practitioners

4. Welders

5. High-Tech Sales Associates

6. User-Interface Software Developers

7. Electronic Medical Record Data Specialists

8. System Engineers

9. Data Scientists

10. Computer Numeric Control Programmers

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