Careers and Certification in the Automotive Industry

   Some of the high-tech systems and materials we have today that were never even heard of 30 years ago included things like wireless internet built in to vehicles, "cobots" (robotic machines that are able to help with the construction and painting of vehicles today,) the self-driving car, and Bluetooth sound systems. Young people would definitely do best in the technical area of automotive careers, this is because today pretty much every young person is up-to-date with technology and know their way around almost anything that has to do with technology. Some advantages in obtaining an education as an automotive technicians versus other high-tech educational options are that you would have career stability and a wide variety of different occupational options. There are expected to be 237,500 new jobs in the automotive-tech field by the year 2020. The automotive job fields will always have work, cars never really go "out of style" so the people working w/ cars or that have certain jobs in that field will most likely always have career stability. That can be a threat to other careers. 4 other positions in the automotive industry are: motor vehicle technician, service technician, CNC programmer, and electric motor technician.