By Rick
Fromme
Your former
colleague told you that after she’d joined an online medical staffing network, she
soon found a new position at a major medical center. She loves her new job; the pay’s better, she gets
an extra week
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vacation, tuition assistance, and her benefits are more comprehensive
than yours.
Now your
curiosity is definitely piqued. Even though you already have a professional profile
on LinkedIn and you periodically attend networking events and conferences in your
specialty, you’re wondering, “Should I join a medical staffing network?
The answer
is a resounding “Yes!”
By joining
a medical staffing network and having your résumé available to potential employers
and health industry specific recruiters, you stand the best chance of career security
and advancement — whether you’re actively looking for a new position or not.
Health Care Jobs Are Happening
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Consider
this: For medical recruiters especially, online networking and searching plays an
increasingly critical role in sourcing active and passive candidates who possess
the right skills sets for particular specialties in health care and medicine. Whether it’s in medical and pharmaceutical sales,
to numerous clinical specialties such as nursing, physical therapy, physician assistants,
and sonographers; to health care IT specialists, to administrators and even physicians,
recruiters and would-be employers are always looking for key talent. As I wrote in an earlier blog, "Health Care Jobs Outlook is Jammin'!" health care is one of the most dynamic sectors of today’s job market today
and will continue to be within the next decade as well. There will be a continual need for skilled professionals
in health care for a long time to come. That’s why you want to have your résumé
and contact information readily available for employers and recruiters to access
anywhere, and anytime.
Since staffing
agencies, recruiters, hiring managers, and providers use medical staffing networks
to post jobs and search for qualified potential job candidates in medical social
networks, you have to be where they’re looking. By having your résumé and qualifications in a medical
social network database, you ensure your qualifications are seen by hundreds of
people searching for someone of your background and skills. Regardless of your specialty, joining a medical
staffing network makes promoting yourself on a consistent basis easier. Think of
it as having your own 24/7 and 365 day-per-year press agency.
To Niche Their Own
Joining a
medical staffing network such as MedMasters.com gives you the benefit of belonging
to a professional niche network that’s industry specific, plus provides the benefits
of a comprehensive job board and social networking site — focused solely on the
health care industry. General sites such
as LinkedIn are more of a jack-of-all trades network, so it’s easier for your information
to get lost amongst the millions of other people and professions.
The Right Tools to Get the Best Job
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- MedMail
- MedConnect Groups
- Professional Assessments
- Video Résumé
A MedMasters
member’s MedMail box is set up to do
most of the tasks found in popular email systems, but also facilitates real-time
alerts such as MedConnect requests, job alerts, candidate alerts, and MedMatch alerts.
Upon receiving a message, members receive a MedMail notification, which they may
choose to respond to immediately or at a later date and time. It’s easy to sync
your MedMail account to your mobile device since your MedMails are relayed to your
email address. When a recruiter is trying to contact you about a given job opening,
most people want to respond as soon as possible. MedMail facilitates the instant communication process.
MedConnect Groups facilitates the ability for
members to network, share ideas, and discuss important topics with professionals
of similar interests. There's no limit to the number of groups a member can join.
Most open groups aren't restricted to only one's peers. Premium groups consist of
peers, the industry's top recruiters, and leading employers.
There are
nearly 45 broad-based groups as part of MedMasters' Groups: Allied Health Lounge,
Allied Health Opportunities (premium), Clinical Specialist Lounge, Clinical Specialist
Opportunities (premium), Nurse Practitioner Opportunities (premium), Health Care
Executive Suite, Medical Product Development, Healthcare Information Technology,
many specialty specific groups and others. There are also more “'socially enjoyable”
and general category groups for Socializing,
Humor, Fun & Interesting, Medical News Forum, Medical Events and Conferences,
Mingling Singles and others.
Assessments are available
to all of MedMasters’ professional members at no charge. Furthermore, you can choose
to post your results on your MedMasters’ profile page. MedMasters’
assessments and methodologies are based on 40 years of data and research. They provide
both individual members, as well as employers, human resource solutions that are
proven, measurable, and provide optimal results.
Companies use the results of your assessment to evaluate
and compare you (and other candidates) with their top employees.
Employers cull from MedMasters' membership database, using
the assessment results of its top performers as an objective benchmark. The closer
your assessment findings match the companies’ best performers, the more likely you’ll
be able to succeed at the level of the firms’ most valuable employees. It’s a win-win
situation for both you and the company.
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In this article,
I discussed some of the numerous advantages of joining a medical staffing network.
Sites such as MedMasters.com provide health care industry professionals a niche
job board as well as an interactive professional social network — both of which
are highly advantageous to job seekers and hiring entities. I also detailed some of the unique features you
can find in MedMasters such as MedMail, MedConnect, Assessment Center and the ability
to post video résumés. If you found this article useful, please post your comments
below. I encourage you to also share it with your colleagues and recent graduates
from accredited health care programs and medical schools.
Rick Fromme
combines entrepreneurial enthusiasm with an insider's knowledge of the medical
industry to co-found MedMasters.com. Both
his drive and perspective helps provide health care professionals with a
superior mechanism with which to communicate, network and market their
strengths. Prior to founding MedMasters.com, Rick
operated a highly successful medical device distributorship. Other milestones
in his 12-year career in the medical industry include a key position at a
medical device start-up company that was later sold to the Ethicon
Endo division of Johnson & Johnson. You may also reach Rick
by connecting with him on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Medmasters.com is the place to go if you are looking for a position in the medical industry
ReplyDeleteI am a big advocate of social networking. With limited time and budget, you have to leverage anything you can to be competitive. That is why I tell my clients it not just who you know and trust that will get you where you want to be, it also how you leverage technology to be effective during the journey.
ReplyDeleteIt's about time that someone came up with a way for the medical profession to network online.
ReplyDeleteI ALWAYS tell my health care professional friends, acquaintances and those whom I encounter in this field to check out MedMasters.
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