Dietitian Job Trends - Dietitian Careers

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Dietitian Job Trends
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• Nutritionist and dietitian jobs require more than
  just designing a diet plan.
• If you want a career as a professional dietitian,
  you will need a strong background of core
  subjects such as anatomy and biochemistry. When
  it comes to career development, dietitian jobs
  are steadily taking on certain trends that you
  will need to keep pace with if you are to find a
  decent job as a dietitian.
•  In todays post, we are going to look at the
  most popular trends in the dietetics job market
  so as to inform you develop and steer your career
  in the right direction. Keeping abreast with
  these trends will also facilitate your job search
  and make it easy for dietitian recruiters to
  notice you.

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•   Diversifying the Industry
• In nutrition, it has been established that there
  is nothing like one size fit for all which is
  something that currently dietitians are looking
  into to diversify their expertise. The dietetics
  demand that personalized and individualized
  dietary plans be provided to suit an individuals
  dietary requirements.
• It is therefore becoming inevitable that RDs jobs
  should include interpretation of genetic testing
  to adequately relate it to nutritional
  recommendations and needs. This is an effort that
  will see dietitians becoming more competent in
  their job with additional training to diversify
  the industry.
•  Integrative and Functional Nutrition

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• Integrative and functional nutrition is seen as
  the wave of the future in the dietetics industry.
  This is a holistic and result optimized
  nutritional approach that is seen as the ultimate
  requirement for all registered dietitians. Now
  more than ever, registered dietitians will be
  required to be more familiar with integrative and
  functional nutrition since the consumer side of
  nutrition is getting more aware of it.
• If you are looking for dietitian jobs and have
  been unfortunate in securing a job, it may be
  because you lack the professional training and
  experience in integrative and functional
  nutrition.  Become educated about this subset of
  nutrition therapy, as it will self as a useful
  tool.
•   Food Sensitivities
• There is an expected increase in the number of
  dietitians in the private sector who will be
  working with food sensitive clients and
  inflammatory diseases

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• Updating your professional portfolio to include
  relevant background knowledge in such a trend
  will be a great addition to your application for
  dietitian jobs. It has become a relevant practice
  among dietitian recruiters to invest in
  dietitians who show a strong skill set for such a
  trend.
• Food sensitivities require dietitians to design
  nutrition plans with the aim of tackling a series
  of food sensitivity issues such as diets to
  reduce inflammation, for migraines, arthritis and
  IBS. Gluten free diets are also on high demand
  for medical purpose and this includes non-celiac
  gluten sensitivity, auto-immune thyroiditis and
  celiac disease.
• Diverse and non-traditional positions
• If you are a new graduate dietitian looking to
  get easily noticed by recruiters in the dietitian
  job industry, you will need to learn about this
  new trend that has been effective for those who
  have ventured into it.

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• We are referring to dietitians becoming diverse
  and engaging in non-traditional positions.  These
  positions may include global focus on various
  food and nutrition issues to promote food supply
  and improve the nutritional status of diet
  deficient individuals.
• Expanding your experience to include dietitian
  jobs that are not typically common or
  traditionally recognized for registered
  dietitians, makes you a highly attractive
  dietitian job candidate.
• Wellness Programs
• With all these emerging trends, make sure you
  stay ahead of the game if you want to remain
  relevant and easily noticed in your search for
  dietitian jobs.