AIM Magazine 2016 | Page 76

Professional services and business-related occupations make up the largest group of jobs in Northwest Arkansas and offer an incredibly wide variety of career opportunities . Jobs in the professional services sector are expected to grow over the next 10 years due mainly to the presence of Fortune 500 companies Walmart , Tyson Foods and J . B . Hunt .
The professional services sector encompasses any profession that offers customized services to a client . Those services include many of what were once called white collar jobs : attorneys , architects , engineers , sale representatives , managers , consultants , and real estate and insurance agents . While upper level management jobs and careers in law , architecture , and engineering require advanced degrees , there are many successful professions in this sector you can enter after high school .
Insurance agents are one of the professions where a college degree is not required . A person can enter the field and work their way up to owning their own agency .
The Farris Insurance Agency is looking for workers to train , said Steve Batchelor , who handles marketing for the company .
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