7 sectors with rising demand for remote workers

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Education & Career Trends: March 5, 2023

Curated by the Knowledge Team of  ICS Career GPS


There are many crucial industries with considerable scope for remote employment.

  • Excerpts are taken from an article published on makeuseof.com

It’s a common misconception that remote employment options are limited to IT-based or tech-adjacent companies, but this is untrue.

People with education and expertise in industry sectors like finance, banking, medicine, arts, literature, media, business services, consulting, etc. can also explore the world of remote careers and search for employment beyond their local vicinity.

These are a few crucial industry categories with considerable scope for remote employment.

1. Customer Support

  • The majority of firms, regardless of whether they’re product- or service-based, need customer-facing personnel to address customer concerns, debug technical difficulties, or instruct their clientele on how to use their goods.
  • Online customer support occupations have been growing substantially as a result.

2. Finance and Banking

  • You might seek for remote positions like a financial consultant, financial advisor, remote financial services supply manager, business transfer consultant, investment banking analyst, etc. if you have a strong background in accounting and are comfortable with numbers and balance sheets.
  • The majority of tasks in banking or finance that don’t demand your personal presence may be done online.

3. Wellness and Health

  • The health and wellness industry has been revamped with the introduction of popular fitness applications, live streaming, and video chats. 
  • Whether you are working as a wellness counsellor, offering motivational therapy sessions, or teaching Zumba dance, you can instruct your clientele from the convenience of your home office
  • You can be a remote worker for one of the numerous websites that encourage employee wellness, launch a niche company website that offers specialised services or get a following on social media platforms like Instagram and YouTube.

4. Pharmacology

  • If you have a degree in pharmacology or a similar profession, you may be able to find remote employment as a clinical pharmacology associate, principal scientist, manager of quantitative clinical pharmacology, toxicologist, etc.
  • You may gather regulatory paperwork, design and report drug-disease modelling, conduct clinical trials, analyse clinical data, and more while working remotely.
  • Remote positions in pharmacology are available from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Novartis, Merck, and all other major pharmaceutical companies.
  • If you have worked as a research doctor for significant pharmaceutical companies in the past, you may also look for remote opportunities in this industry.
  • These vocations typically need long hours of concentrated labour and a comfortable environment. To take control of your time, learn how to make an effective remote work schedule.

5. Medical Science

  • Popular profiles for remote employment in the medical sector include Medical Writing and Medical Scribe.
  • Yet there is now a tonne of alternative jobs available that let medical professionals like physicians and nurses work from home.
  • Concierge Medical Practice is an umbrella term that offers various positions like Consultant Doctor, Remote Nurse Psychotherapist, and the like.
  • If you wish to use your knowledge and expertise in medicine to work from home, you may also look for employment in telephone triage, telemedicine, medical science liaison, medical education specialist, etc.

6. Arts and Entertainment

  • People who have studied the arts and are interested in entertainment and media can apply for remote jobs in advertising, copywriting, apparel design, editing, graphics design, sketching for 2D and 3D models, animation, illustration, photo-editing, video processing, scriptwriting, social media marketing, and other fields.
  • Several of the employment in these domains of remote work depends more on professionalism and skill than on education and experience.
  • You can look into websites that provide remote work for translators, interpreters, voice actors, etc. if you are multilingual and have experience working as a linguist.
  • Some professions are highly suited for freelance employment because of the nature of the work.

7. Legal

  • Compiling case files, checking facts, tracking down case material, working on business contracts, interacting with governmental bodies, completing paperwork, adhering to laws and regulations, etc., all need a lot of legwork.
  • All of this work necessitates legal expertise, but the majority of it doesn’t require a lawyer to be there in person at the office, creating many remote employment options in the legal industry.
  • Some legal roles you may work for in a remote location include remote litigation attorney, corporate associate legal counsel, remote contracts attorney, compliance attorney, conflict attorney, remote document reviews attorney, etc.


Have you checked out yesterday’s blog yet?

5 Things to Know About Building a Career in App Development


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