The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we live and work overnight. For many, this change meant job loss, with unemployment peaking at 14.7 percent in April of 2020.

While it’s been almost halved since then (in September sitting around 7.9 percent), shifts in the working environment are still happening as people work to adjust and change in order to find work.

While many industries have been forced to lay off workers to survive this shift, other industries have an increased demand for workers. Healthcare recruiting, for example, is seeing huge increases in demand for nurses and doctors.

It’s not just those types of roles that have emerged as highly needed during this time. There are jobs that were essentially created as a direct result of the pandemic. As our lives shifted, so did business & consumer needs, which led to the creation of certain roles.

These new “COVID jobs” will likely stick around post-pandemic thanks to permanent societal changes that were spurred on by the pandemic.

Let’s look at a few examples of these COVID jobs that have recently emerged along with why they’ll likely stick around the post-COVID world.