Calling all IT professionals for a career in health care

With the switch to EMR (Electronic Medical records), the demand for experienced health care IT specialists and specifically Clinical Informatics specialists is growing at a tremendous rate. Any business owner that contracts IT professionals knows that finding talented programmers and retaining them can be a challenge in such a high demand area. Clinical informatics specialist positions are relatively new so competition among medical employers for experienced professionals in this area can be fierce.

Bernie Monegain over at HealthcareITnews.com has written an interesting post highlighting the competition in this growing area by healthcare employers for talented IT specialists. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/clinical-it-professionals-hard-find A recent study by the Hay Group has found that healthcare companies are growing their EMR programs at a rapid rate in response to the American Recovery Acts. The study points out that many healthcare organizations have formed clinical informatics positions without the needed structure due in part to “lack of benchmark data and understanding of best practices”. This is not surprising given the rapid growth in this area and the need to” learn and you go” in an area as new as clinical informatics.

As with any specialty in health care that is relatively new –most often driven by new technology- health care IT is now an area of tremendous job growth. Experienced Health IT specialist can “call the shots” (for now anyway) as we have seen in other areas of health care where demand in high and supply is low. This again shows that the health care industry is an area of tremendous opportunity not only for direct care providers but for those behind the scenes that improve efficiency and help to provide better patient outcomes.

Top health care careers in 2011

Looks like there is more information being published out there indicating that hiring within healthcare for the next year will be increasing. Carol Tice,http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/12/06/top-industries-hiring-in-2011/  has written an article that highlights the perceived hottest industries that will increase hiring for 2011. As you might have guessed, healthcare is on the list and even better rated as number one. The folks over at PayScale “talked to two employment experts: Career expert Robin Ryan, author of ‘60 Seconds and You’re Hired,’ and Laurence Shatkin, author of ‘2011 Career Plan.’ “

“There’s never been a recession in this sector, says Shatkin, and demand will continue to be strong next year. Jobs in demand include home health care aides and registered nurses ($61,148). Hot specialties within nursing include nurse anesthetists ($144,821), nurse practitioners ($86,774) and psychiatric nurses ($55,155).” By the way, you can access the pay rates of all jobs within healthcare by job title and location using the PayScale widgets we have on our site http://www.jobjobhealth.com/salary-charts-calculator.html

Of course, there are many other positions within healthcare that are not related to direct patient care-jobs within biotech, pharma and the life science industries as well as the hot jobs within healthcare I.T.-electronic medical records, medical coders, etc. It appears that employment within certain healthcare industries will be potentially strong for the coming year.

Search jobs on the latest health care job iphone app

New iphone app frees internet job searching from computer access and offers instant real time health care job listings from the JobJobHealth.com search engine.

Written by Amy Milani, Ph.D.

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, February 14, 2010– Career Management Source has announced an iphone app version of their health care job search engine, JobJobHealth.com. Installed on any iphone for free, the JobJobHealth app will enable anyone with an iphone to search for new medical jobs anywhere, anytime. No personal information is required to retrieve job listings from the exclusive health job search engine. With the app, online searches for health jobs are no longer restricted to computers and their internet access.
The JobJobHealth iphone app presents real time listings of all medical jobs, such as nursing jobs, hospital jobs, pharmacy jobs or assistant jobs. The app makes the same search results available as those found on the computer. The JobJobHealth search engine draws only healthcare jobs from diverse sources on the internet, including: healthcare employers, leading job boards, and medical associations. Therefore, the JobJobHealth app provides job listings exclusively within the health care industry, increasing the efficiency of searches.
As a convenient mobile device, the JobJobHealth iphone app advances how people make use of online job searching. With it, medical workers are able to do searches immediately as they get new information pertaining to their health care career, wherever they are. Freed from the computer, the JobJobHealth iphone app enables people to take real time information and turn it into potential job opportunities. The app was designed to give job seekers an instant method for retrieving the latest jobs to facilitate a more successful search.
Searching for healthcare jobs with the JobJobHealth iphone app begins with two keyword search bars. A medical working can look up new jobs by simply typing in a job title or a company name. By clicking on the “Find Jobs” button, the app activates a search for the latest jobs including the requested keywords. A new page will appear with a listing of organically ranked search results. Each job listing is linked to another site providing details about the position.
JobJobHealth.com not only features the search engine that drives the iphone app; it also serves as a valuable resource for the development of healthcare careers. The website offers many additional resources including: advanced job searching, job alerts, healthcare job forum and blog, healthcare news feed, healthcare employer directory and career tools. While the search engine aggregates job listings from currently listed job postings, healthcare employers are also able to post jobs directly to the site. These listings are included in the iphone app search results alongside those pulled from websites. The iphone app is the latest tool made available to healthcare workers in conjunction with JobJobHealth.com.

To learn more about the JobJobHealth iphone app or JobJobHealth.com health care search engine, visit www.JobJobHealth.com, email info@careermanagementsource.com or call 888-865-8914.

finding a job in health care

Anyone that has worked in health care recruitment for a few years has crossed paths with the jobseeker that has put their resume out there to just about every potential employer sit e and specialty job board e.g. health care job boards. We all also know acquaintances that have done the same thing and are genuinely disappointed and puzzled they have not had one response. A reality of the job search process is that jobseekers need to network and do it methodically. An article I recently read outlines very nicely what it takes to network successfully-these are tips that can be used not only for a medical job search but for any industry. An impressive stat that stands out is that “research shows that 70-80 percent of all jobs are filled through networking.” http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/01/27/ultimate-guide-to-networking/
The first tip highlighted in the article is to ask for information and not a job. OK, so the person you are approaching for information knows the bottom line is that you want a job but they will appreciate the fact you are viewing him/her as an expert and not putting them on the spot. “Your goal is to build a relationship and establish rapport so that if a potential opportunity becomes available in the future, they will want to refer you.”
The second tip points out that everyone has a busy work day filled with meetings or in health care seeing patients, doing initial admission assessments, triaging patients, etc in addition to those administrative meetings. If you have scheduled a networking meeting ahead of time, keep the meeting brief (have an agenda in mind) and to the point. “By planning your meeting ahead of time, you establish your professionalism, gain credibility, and cover all the critical agenda items”.
Other helpful hints that are included are: Ask questions, Ask how to expand your network, find ways to keep this professional networking relationship going, find ways to give back and follow up with a thank you note.
Like many things in life networking takes work and persistence to be successful –in this case finding a job in your industry. Although health care is considered somewhat immune to the volatility of the economy, networking for those key healthcare administration jobs has been the norm for years. Enjoy the article and we wish you success in your networking endeavors.