Causes of new occupations
- Technology
- Demographic trends
- aging
- immigration
- education
- Laws
- Business trends
- Shifts in consumer needs and tastes
Birth of an occupation
- As a task added to an already existing occupation
- Gaining importance, creating specialties
- Combining tasks, becoming an occupation in itself
Examples
- Technology
- Webmaster: didn't exist before the 1990s, a common occupation by now
- Bioinformatics Engineer: depended on the technological advance in computers and the Human Genome Project, developed into a major at universities
- Law
- Diversity managers in trade unions (Belgium)
- Environment auditors, prevention services (Belgium)
- Certificating scientists (e.g. fireguarding doors)
- Consumer needs
- Fence jumpers, hired hackers to test security systems
- Plastic surgery doctors
- Business practices
- HR managers
- Quality control in hospitals
- Demographics
- State aid for asylum seekers
- Geriatric psychiatrists
etc.
