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Where are the jobs in the healthcare recruitment industry today?  If you’re interested in a high-demand, high-paying career in helping people maintain their health or regain their health, what are the best fields and specialties within the healthcare industry?

First of all, let’s take a look at the overall market that healthcare recruitment companies and agencies work within.  Healthcare recruitment agencies work for a wide variety of types of organizations.  Hospitals are the obvious first one but there are other clients who might place a job opening with a healthcare recruitment agency.

Nowadays you find a lot of doctors group together to form their own multi-specialty clinics.  For example, three doctors might open a clinic where one doctor is a OB-GYN specialist, another doctor is a Dermatologist and another doctor is Cardiologist.  Of course, there could be any number of doctors or specialties involved but the idea is that the doctors share the expense of setting up something similar to their own ‘mini-hospital’.  And they would retain the services of a healthcare recruitment company to find their nurses and office/administrative support staff.

And don’t forget that there’s a lot of paperwork involved in the healthcare industry today.  To the extent that government has gotten involved it has created a geometrically expanded burden of administrative work.  The same thing goes for insurance paperwork.  All these benefits sound nice…at first.  But they also tend to drive the cost of the medical services up too.  Regardless, it takes a very well organized back office of administrative staff to handle all the paperwork and that’s another type of position that healthcare recruitment agencies fill.

Experts predict over 4,700,000 new jobs to open up between now and year 2014 in the US.  Similar numbers of new jobs are anticipated in the UK and other developed countries.  In the US, this represents a 30% increase over that time period.  Not many industries can boast that kind of growth and it creates a tremendous opportunity for healthcare recruitment agencies to find qualified applicants to fill these new positions.

According to a US government agency, of the top 20 job occupations with the fastest growth in number of jobs available, 9 of them are in the healthcare industry.  In addition to the pure medical professional jobs (like doctors), there’s also nurses of many different types, administrative support personnel as already noted AND such diverse specialty personnel like additional accountants, personnel specialists, auditors, attorneys, directors of personnel, computer programmers, buyers, computer support specialists, computer operators, photographers, purchasing clerks, and even food service helpers.

All of the above are jobs that will quiet often be filled by healthcare recruitment companies.  As one can easily see, it sounds like a good opportunity for anyone not only in the healthcare profession but also in the business of finding people to fill those professions.  The only thing limiting this seemingly explosive opportunity is the fact that not enough people are entering into training programs and schools for these kinds of professions today.

In some countries, for example Japan, industry is working on ways to fill more of these emerging positions with high-tech solutions…..e.g. robots.  That approach has some merit but nobody knows to what extent it’s going to be a solution to the problem.  One thing for sure, healthcare recruitment agencies earn top fees for the jobs they fill because the healthcare specialists they recruit are definitely in short supply.