Job Placement in Healthcare

Hot Jobs presents

July 12, 2000

HotJobs.com presents Director of Recruitment and Staffing of Mount Sinai NYU Health Center, William Kelley, who discusses in an online interview issues concerning career and job placement in the medical field and healthcare profession.

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HotJobs: Welcome to Hotjobs.com's bi-weekly event! We're glad you're here, because that means you're ready to take control of your career. Tonight we'll be talking to William Kelley, Director of Recruitment and Staffing of Mount Sinai NYU Health Center as he talks with HotJobs.com and you, explaining how you can obtain the position of your choice in the healthcare industry. He will also answer questions regarding getting your resume into the right hands. Welcome William Kelley!

William Kelley: Hi! Good evening! Thanks for joining us!

SkiZottLY: What is the best medical field to get into right now?

William Kelley: There are a lot of choices in the medical field today. You can go into diagnostic areas, patient care areas, and also since hospitals are becoming businesses now, you can go through that as a background. It really depends on your interest, whether you want to come into the business through the backdoor.

Msnurse: Have the study and acceptance levels changed for entry into the medical field now? Is it harder to qualify?

William Kelley: It's not harder to qualify, but there are more people coming into those fields, so it is very competitive, academically. An example of that would be Physical Therapy.

Pitt Sarah: I've been out of college for a year, and I have a degree in Health Information Management. I'm in Pittsburgh, PA, where the health care arena is huge but tight. Any ideas on how best to showcase my education and the little experience that I have?

William Kelley: Try to call people who are directors in the area, who can get you an information interview. Off of that, they can probably get you a job.

Lori: Where do you find positions in the healthcare dot com arena? What's the best way to contact these organizations?

William Kelley: If you are talking about where we would list it, we use a variety of main source places like HotJobs.com, but we also have very specific niche oriented websites. So it would depend on the field you are in, and what you are looking for. We also have home pages with a list of current openings. So you should really source out institutions or places you are interested in, and look on their websites for current openings.

Julius: Mr. Kelley, I'm newly graduated--how can I get started in the field of Health Care Administration?

William Kelley: It depends if you have an undergraduate degree, or an advanced degree, meaning an MBA or something. If you have an advanced degree, most hospitals or health care institutions have positions that are called administrative residents. These positions take somebody to the hospital, and give them experience in all of the businesses in the hospital. If you have an undergraduate degree, depending on the areas of interests you have, most health care facilities have entry-level positions in business settings, information systems, finance, and human resources, as well as patient care areas.

Sarah: What are the do's and don'ts of healthcare resumes?

William Kelley: The do's, depending on your experience in undergraduate school, you should add in GPA, any kind of internship experience, any kind of volunteer experience, and any kind of computer skill experience, if you have it. For entry-level positions, an objective really isn't necessary. Some of the don'ts, a lot of people make mistakes on their resumes, poor grammar, poor format. You have to remember you only get one shot to represent yourself on paper. With the advent of home computers, people type, but don't proofread their documents. Make sure it is on white paper, nothing too elaborate or catchy, because those gimmicks don't usually work. I guess common sense should really dictate. I would also like to point out that people should really understand that we are in the business to fill jobs, and people believe that it is really hard to get in, and we don't want to do that. So if you sent in your resume, and you aren't getting called, you should either look at your resume again for errors, or try to do a better job of matching what you are applying for.

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