--- title: 10 Fields That Are Hiring Like Crazy Right Now description: 'These job industries are hiring: sales, office and administrative support, transportation, healthcare, management, food preparation, finance' authors: - name: Monster url: https://money.com/author/monster-3/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 1 covers: - Career Advice former_staff: true published: '2015-09-08T10:00:46.000Z' modified: '2024-02-23T10:10:02.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - food prep - Health Care - job search - Management - sales - Transportation - truck drivers - Workplace word_count: 498 canonical: https://money.com/job-fields-hiring-fall/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![494326405](https://img.money.com/2015/09/gettyimages-494326405.jpg) Summer’s almost over, and between vacation travel and the sweltering August heat, you might feel like you could use some downtime from your downtime. But when it comes to your job search, you might want to rev up your engines instead. Fall is one of the busiest hiring seasons, which makes it an ideal time to kick your hunt into high gear. Between retail companies staffing up seasonal workers and hiring managers buckling down after the long summer, the fall months represent the year’s last big staffing push before things quiet down again in December. Monster rounded up the 10 job categories that added the most positions in August, based on data from Wanted Analytics. So if you’re hoping to take a new step in your career this season and want to find the best odds for getting hired, start here: 1. [**Office and administrative support**](http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/?tjt=administrative%20support) Job listings added in August: 388,597 Top cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York Top growth areas: Customer service representatives, first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers, executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants 2. [**Sales**](http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/sales_5?) Jobs listings added in August: 374,332 Top cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York Top growth areas: Retail salespersons, first-line supervisors of retail sales workers, sales representatives (wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products) 3. [**Computer and mathematical occupations**](http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/tech_5?) Job listings added in August: 381,443 Top cities: New York, Chicago, Seattle Top growth areas: Software developers (applications), computer user support specialists, computer systems analysts 4. [**Transportation and material moving**](http://jobs.monster.com/search/transportation_5) Job listings added in August: 266,515 Top cities: Chicago, Dallas, Houston Top growth areas:Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers, light truck or delivery service drivers, laborers and freight, stock, and material movers (hand) 5. [**Healthcare practitioners**](http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/healthcare_5?) Job listings added in August: 252,428 Top cities: Los Angeles, New York, Houston Top growth areas:Registered nurses, licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses, physical therapists 6. **[Management](http://jobs.monster.com/search/management_5)** Job listings added in August: 240,984 Top cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco Top growth areas: Marketing managers, medical and health services managers, sales managers 7. **[Food preparation and serving](http://jobs.monster.com/search/management_5)** Job listings added in August: 179,316 Top cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles Top growth areas: First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers, combined food preparation and serving workers (including fast food), cooks (restaurant) 8. [**Business and finance**](http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/business-finance_5?) Job listings added in August: 166,759 Top cities: New York, Chicago, Atlanta Top growth areas:Accountants, management analysts, human resources specialists 9. [**Installation, maintenance, and repair**](http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/maintenance-repair_5?) Job listings added in August: 140,638 Top cities: Houston, Dallas, Phoenix Top growth areas: Maintenance and repair workers (general), first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers, automotive specialty technicians 10. [**Construction and extraction**](http://jobsearch.monster.com/search/construction_5?) Job listings added in August: 111,669 Top cities: Denver, Houston, Dallas Top growth areas: First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, construction laborers, construction carpenters ***Read next: 10 Things Never to Say in a Work Email*** *Search for your next job on* [*Monster*](http://jobsearch.monster.com/)*.* **More from Monster:** - [How to talk to your significant other about your job search](http://www.monster.com/blog/b/how-to-talk-to-significant-other-about-job-search-0820) - [This new kind of resume could help you get hired](http://www.monster.com/blog/b/infographic-resume-when-to-use) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/job-fields-hiring-fall/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Career Advice", "item": "https://money.com/career-advice/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Job Listings", "item": "https://money.com/job-listings/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "10 Fields That Are Hiring Like Crazy Right Now" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/job-fields-hiring-fall/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/job-fields-hiring-fall/", "name": "10 Fields That Are Hiring Like Crazy Right Now", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-09-08T10:00:46.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/job-fields-hiring-fall/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/job-fields-hiring-fall/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-02-23T10:10:02.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "10 Fields That Are Hiring Like Crazy Right Now", "articleSection": "Career Advice", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/09/gettyimages-494326405.jpg", "width": 5120, "height": 3413, "caption": "494326405" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Monster", "url": "https://money.com/author/monster-3/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/monster-3/#author" } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-09-08T10:00:46.000Z", "description": "These job industries are hiring: sales, office and administrative support, transportation, healthcare, management, food preparation, finance", "abstract": "These job industries are hiring: sales, office and administrative support, transportation, healthcare, management, food preparation, finance", "@id": "https://money.com/job-fields-hiring-fall/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-02-23T10:10:02.000Z", "wordCount": 498, "keywords": [ "food prep", "Health Care", "job search", "Management", "sales", "Transportation", "truck drivers", "Workplace" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Career counseling", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_counseling" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Job hunting", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_hunting" ] } ] } ] } ```