산림분야 유망직업 선정 연구

Recently according to the increased utilization possibility, expansion of service sector utilizing forest, and international attention on the forest resource, environment changes surrounding forest have led to rising the demand for professionals associated with forest field. In this study, potential future occupations were selected in order to increase the interest in jobs of the forestry sector. To pursue this goal, the environment analysis was carried out for finding out the current status of forest sector jobs, and potential future occupations in forest fields were driven. And the Delphi survey with 10 experts of forest and vocational studies were conducted to validate the draft. The results of this study were as follows.
First, forest therapists and guides, forest biomass researchers, forest researchers of biological resources, researchers of forest pest control, researchers of forest resource breeding, forest ecological restoration technicians, forest protection technicians, forest disaster experts, foreign species surveyors, forest therapists(doctors), and amenity researchers of forest ecology, were selected as potential future occupations in forest fields. Second, the criteria for selecting potential future occupations were higher vocational employment opportunities, expected increases in the number of workers for the future profession, high-income profession, taking advantage of the specialized knowledge and skills, and policy direction of Korea Forest Service. For this reason, selected future occupations in forest fields can be positioned as a profession which are not seasonal employment/lower revenues but guaranteed continued employment/regular incomes. Third, since potential future occupations depend on the era, it is necessary to focus on future forestry and related industries. Plus a system associated with developing professionals in the forest sector should be established to meet the demands of new jobs and manpower for future.