 MCO careers can be in medicine, utilities, 911 call centers, transportation, and many other places. However, the skills needed to sell in a mission-critical career stay the same. Industry recognizes a growing need for people to be employed in the mission-critical operations field. These include people in both the information technology side of things as well as the industrial systems side of things. These are in industries ranging from utilities, manufacturing, government, health care, production, banking, and finance. Society for Manufacturing Engineers is currently in a campaign to boost workforce readiness and promote employee development. They say that despite high general unemployment and critical shortage of skilled workers threatens the future of manufacturing in America, and experts say that if it's not addressed now, this crisis will dangerously accelerate in the next decade. Following up on that, the Automation Federation states that companies cannot possibly succeed in the long term without attracting talent from future generations. They spell out that the shortage of employees is caused in part by the retiring baby boomer generation.