The Bureau of Labor Statistics released their Employment Situation Summary for the month of November 2008 a few days ago. Unfortunately, It’s no surprise that employment declined in nearly all major industries, although health care continued to add jobs to the tune of 34,000 in November. This healthy industry has added 369,000 jobs in the last twelve months.
I wanted to get an idea of who these jobs are going to, so for kicks I did a Linkedin job search on the Hospital and Health Care industry within 25 miles of my zip code in the San Francisco Bay Area. Up popped 29 openings for a wide assortment of job functions. My sampling included requests for:
- Managers in finance departments
- Directors of Web
- Director of Information Architecture
- Leadership development
- Operations analysts
- Benefits analysts
- Project managers
- Product managers
- Controller
- Database marketing director
- Communications director
How to leverage this information:
- Acknowledge that your job skills are transferable to another industry.
- Work on positioning your expertise to provide value to companies that are adding jobs.
- Read bNet to learn the nuances of the health care or other growing industry for your job function.
- Research health care companies in your local area.
- Develop a proactive strategy for reaching out to them, whether or not they are openly hiring.
