It’s early on in the Cabinet building process, but thus far the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is actually supportive of President-elect Obama’s economic team — or at least a few of the appointments. Only time will tell if Obama’s policies will reflect this apparent centricism (centristness? centricity? centristocity?) or if it will span his entire term. But for the time being, Thomas J. Donohue, president/CEO of the nation’s largest business advocate, isn’t hating the guy:

This team brings a wealth of knowledge to Washington and an understanding that any sustainable economic recovery will involve the business sector.

Tim Geithner has a deep understanding of our capital markets and the experience and credibility to tackle our nation’s biggest challenge—restoring our economy and rebuilding our financial markets.  He has been directly engaged in all the steps taken so far to address this unprecedented crisis and is well qualified to lead the Treasury Department.

Larry Summers’ knowledge of economic issues and past experience as Treasury secretary will serve President Obama well.  Likewise, Christina Romer and Melody Barnes will bring an understanding that any sustainable economic recovery will involve the business sector.

Scientific it may not be, but a recent release from a growing career matching web site provides some interesting trends in what it terms the Top 25 most recession-proof jobs. The basis for the rankings is the professions in greatest demand by employers and recruiters who used the site in the previous four months.

Some of the results:

• New to the list: medical administrative services, information technology security, higher education faculty, product managers and human resource generalists
• Dropping out of the Top 25: database administration, advertising, testing/quality assurance and business analysis (both research and software implementation categories)
• Biggest movers up the list: technology executive (up eight spots to No. 16) and counseling/social work (up seven spots to No. 4)
• Sliding downward: mechanical and electrical engineering

The overall top five: sales representative/business development, account/customer support, accounting staff, counseling/social work and software design/development.

Take what you wish from the report, but it was effective enough from the company’s standpoint to gain a mention here.