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posted by Obi Igbokwe on Nov. 15, 2007

Hi everyone and thank you for visiting the A to Z of Health Care Recruiting. The health care industry is a vast and dynamic industry, accounting for 13.5 million jobs in the US, making it the country?s largest employer of people.

 

Moreover the Department of labour predicts that the industry would account for 8 of the 20 fastest growing professions in the whole the US. Not bad, considering that there are 10 other supersectors of the economy and the education industry to compete with for the skills and services of the American worker.

 

When people think of the health care sector, they mostly restrict themselves to doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists but they are a lot more professionals than that. It is estimated there are over 500 different career paths in the industry, I personally know of about 300. A lot of the professions are small fields like that of dental ceramists; occupations like nursing have a huge amount of opportunities.

 

Overt the next coming weeks, months and hopefully years, I hope to look at the challenges facing recruiters in the sector and examining the different methods they employ to get ahead in the game.

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•  Danette Bonds

  1 point 11 months ago

  P.S. Any advice as to how difficult it would be to recruit in the medical field! I know you have to believe in the career in order to be awesome at recruiting and do feel that this would be my niche.

  Thanks! Danette

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•  Danette Bonds

  1 point 11 months ago

  Hi There! My name is Danette from Orlando, Florida. I was a recruiting and licensing specialist for 20 years with Ameriprise Financial. My position was eliminated in April of this year (2008). I actually had a few interviews initially which didn't pan out and decided that I had to get through the grieving process and figure out what I wanted to do for the last 15 years of my working life. I've been applying left and right for positions in my field but in other industries, but absolutely no luck.

  Any advice you could offer would be so much appreciated!

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