Nothing beats good old-fashioned industry networking to find out about hot job opportunities. To complement these job search efforts, the Web is becoming more useful, helping surfers discover industry-specific opportunities. The key is patience because job hunting online for healthcare communicators can be frustrating - searches often result in sites that post opportunities for physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers.
The best strategy for healthcare marketers and PR professionals is to regularly surf sites that are:
- General in scope for the marketing and PR industries; and
- Promoted by an industry association, like the AHA's Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development and the Public Relations Society of America.
To get your mouse pointed in the right direction, bookmark these key sites that post healthcare marketing/PR jobs.
This Web site for Pam Pohly & Associates, a Hayes, Kan.-based healthcare executive recruiting firm, is chock-full of job-seeking resources, from healthcare employment hot links to recruiter directories and weekly job listings.
This is the AHA's Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development Web site. It's career opportunities section requires membership to the Society but provides the most targeted job postings for healthcare communicators. The section also provides information on career resources and trends.
This is the American College of Healthcare Executives Web site. It's career section provides extensive resources on career-related books for healthcare executives, job postings and offers employers an opportunity to submit openings.
This Managed Care Online site provides employment listings for a wide range of managed care opportunities as well as hot links to related healthcare sites.
This is the Public Relations Society of America Web site and although it covers the general scope of PR, its classified section posts listings for healthcare PR jobs. You don't have to be a member to check out the listings, which are updated on a weekly basis.
This is the International Association of Business Communicators site that offers a wide slate of career-related information for corporate communicators. Like the PRSA site, listings are updated frequently.
This Advancing Women business site is awesome for gender-specific career tips and resources. It features excellent articles on women-focused career outlooks and trends and includes hot links to other sites for female-oriented career information.
This is an excellent online career site because it posts employer profiles and has a pathway to search newspaper classified. This site is a joint venture of several major newspapers like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
This recently expanded Yahoo! career Web site provides job-seekers access to a national database of job listings, in-depth company profiles and salary and benefit information. It offers more than 360,000 listings and a combined database of other online career databases like Career Builder's Network, Career Mosaic and Headhunter.Net.
This is a unique career Web site because it offers an email recruitment service that targets high-ranking executives who are passively searching. The online recruiting service connects qualified business professionals with hiring managers. It guarantees that resumes reach hiring managers within five business days. It also provides specific services for marketing professionals and MBA, called Career Central for Marketers and Career Central for MBAs.
This site offers commingling of career-related content - from resources to hot links - on the job market. Although it posts thousands of listings, its useful for employer profiles and other general information.