11 fastest growing industries offer opportunity

What type of business to start? What job training to get? Where to apply for work where you won't get laid off in three months?

IBISWorld, an industy innovation firm in Los Angeles, offers some guidance with a list of the 11 industries whose earnings it expects to grow the fastest in the at once five years.

The ranking is based on forecasted revenue growth

The ranking is based on forecasted revenue growth, even though IBISWorld as well looked at past earnings and number of establishments in 2000, 2011 and 2016.

Remember, growth is different than size. E-commerce and online auctions in the United State are already huge with 2010 earnings totaling more than $95 billion during U.S. solar power generation, which racked up $69 million last year. After all, the former is expected to grow more - 9.4 percent - than the latter - 7.9 percent - by 2016.

Week afterwards week, thieves break into corporate computer systems to steal customer lists, email addresses and credit card numbers. Large data breaches get overshadowed by even larger ones. But people are turning over personal information to online retailers, social networks and other services in growing numbers.