Also called: Disaster Recovery Planner, Resilience Manager
Plans how a company keeps running during disasters: hurricanes, cyberattacks, pandemics or power outages.
You run a drill where the main data center 'goes down,' time how long it takes to switch to the backup and write up what went wrong.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's; CBCP certification.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Emergency Management, Information Systems, Business Administration.
Growing faster than average. Growing with cyber and climate risks.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. AI helps model outages and plans; running disaster drills and leading during real crises stays human.
Classes: AP Computer Science Principles, Geography, Business elective.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1199.
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