To help workers identify the best temp opportunities, CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists (EMSI) released a list of occupations that are hiring temporary workers at an accelerated rate.

FORBES: The Fastest-Growing Temp Jobs

The government has realised that some sectors will fall outside the points system in this way, so it has appointed a panel of economists to draw up a list of occupations that will be allowed to skip it.

ECONOMIST: Immigration clampdown

To keep you from breaking into your neighbor's home to take a peek at his or her checkbook, we've put together a list of occupations and the salaries that just might surprise you because they don't earn as much as you'd expect.

CNN: Five low salaries that might surprise you

Ten months on from the UK's decision to take IT specialists off its list of occupations suffering a staff shortage, UK IT contractors are accusing firms of taking advantage of a loophole to keep hiring foreign staff in place of British ones.

BBC: Indian IT worker

Every year the BLS surveys businesses and releases a copious list of hundreds of occupations, broken down by wages earned, total numbers of workers in various fields and parts of the country that pay the best.

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Click here to see the complete list of the 10 occupations hiring the most right now.

FORBES: Who's Getting Hired Right Now

Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.

FORBES: Magazine Article