8 Best First Jobs To Find at the New Year

“The aging population drives demand for healthcare innovation,” she said, pointing to telemedicine as one such switch. Innovation like this creates jobs such as IT (information technology) specialists, telehealth coordinators, revenue cycle analysts, and so on.

“Those are growing demands and job titles that’ll grow in some of the big companies that drive that economic sector.”

Many young workers have already figured out how to monetize things like content creation and digital marketing, such as SEO optimization, Reyes said, but these skills will remain in demand.

She feels that Gen Z already has a leg up in “this new digital age where we are trying to meet the demand for different types of content” because they’ve kind of grown up not only exposed to it but making it.

“I think that definitely lends itself to more entry-level [jobs] and lots of growth opportunities as well as technology,” she said.

Since Gen Zers are also growing up in an age of exploding uses for AI, she feels that “Gen Z is really poised to figure out how to use AI for work, not to have it replace creativity, but use it as a tool.”

We now live pretty solidly in a gig economy, Reyes said, and “freelance work is thriving for better or worse. It’s giving great opportunities for job seekers to have the flexibility they desire,” she said.

While she acknowledged more freelancers can contribute to companies having difficulty finding good talent, there’s an almost endless supply of work for freelance developers, digital marketers, online consultants, content writers and other jobs that support the growth of freelance platforms like Upwork, Fiverr and TaskRabbit.

In general, she said she sees an increasing preference for project-based work across all industries.

Another place where workers can take these skills they’re learning and turn it into a job is offering training and education to others. “There’s a demand for digital learning platforms and re-skilling and upskilling,” Reyes said.

Many companies don’t invest in these opportunities for their employees, so people look to hire others to retrain them so they can find better jobs or side hustles.

In general, Reyes left off with one piece of advice for any job seeker: “Gain as many skills as you can, learn new things and take responsibility for that.”

However, if you have to work on one main skill, she urged, “Be adaptable. It is the key skill that will make you successful, not only in your job search, but at any company because adaptability is a necessary kind of bottom line skill.”

Things change so quickly in business, she said. “So the people who thrive are the ones that are able to pivot quickly to embrace change, to not get thrown when things are not like they were yesterday.”

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