The small number of occupations experiencing increases in job openings could be lifeboats to the unemployed.

Occupations with growing demand, ranked by increases in new job postings
Source: PolicyLink/PERE analysis of data from the 2018 5-year American Community Survey microdata from IPUMS USA, Burning Glass Technologies, and O*NET. Note: Universe includes the employed civilian noninstitutional population age 16 or older in occupations with 2018 base employment of at least 50,000 and valid data on weekly job openings between 3/2/2020 and 4/13/2020. Data on median hourly wage is further restricted to full-time wage and salary workers. See methodology for details. Get the data