As promised from last month's feature article, here is the real info on getting into one of 2005's "hot jobs" – so called because of high wages / benefits and the number of positions available nationally. As a refresher, the five main categories were:

• Healthcare Jobs
• Construction Jobs
• Manufacturing Jobs
• Computer / Technical Jobs
• Education Jobs

For March, we'll take a look at what's recommended / required to get into the hot jobs of manufacturing and healthcare.

Manufacturing

You may have read over the past few years that many manufacturing jobs are going overseas, or "offshored." This is true for many low skilled manufacturing jobs, but high tech manufacturing jobs are still performed in the U.S. and they need skilled workers.

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Top Colleges is proud to present our second article from Olympian and original member of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, Devon Harris Vision points the way

Shortly after I had completed my second season of bobsledding, I found myself back in Jamaica sitting in the officer's tent talking about bobsledding. On this occasion I was talking about the progress our team had made in the short time we were involved in the sport. One senior officer, expecting to get a good laugh at my expense, asked me to speak in more detail about the progress we had made. He wanted to hear about start times and race results and how they compared to the more established teams. I simply told him that we had made the transition from being media darlings to true competitors...

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