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Experts say that thanks to five developments facing the nursing industry, job prospects are likely to look up in coming years. And if you’ve either just entered nursing school or are planning to go, you may be in a good position to benefit. The graying of the country’s population According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the ranks of the elderly will grow faster than any other group in the population from through 2018. And the longer Baby Boomers stick around, the more treatment they’ll need for age-related issues, whether it’s something as major as a fall or minor,...
A recent work force survey turned heads by revealing a sharp uptick in American employers struggling to find qualified job candidates. “They are looking for evermore specific skill sets and taking longer to fill job vacancies as they wait for the economy to fully rebound and their business to get back to ‘normal,’” ManpowerGroup wrote in the report. On the brighter side, health care didn’t rank among the fields where U.S. employers are having the toughest time filling jobs. In fact, the health care sector’s been adding lots of jobs. And Researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the...
In a perfect world, all you’d have to do for career bliss is go back to school, get trained for a new career, and have a job waiting for you when you graduated. And not just any job, mind you, but the one that’s perfect for you, with just the right salary. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that way, especially in this economy, says Seattle-based career coach David Goodenough. “The silliest concept in the world is that you are going to go to school and then you are going to go to the career center and get a job. You can’t just go...
If you’re considering a career in health care, there are some mighty encouraging findings in a new report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The unemployment rate for experienced college graduates who majored in a health care field was just 2.2 percent in 2009 and 2010. That’s the lowest among all the majors featured in “Hard Times, College Majors, Unemployment, and Earnings: Not All College Degrees Are Created Equal”—and far better than November’s 8.6 percent national unemployment rate, the latest data available. Health care professionals with graduate degrees ranked even lower at 1.9 percent. Among recent college...
While most of the economy has spent the past four years tanking or sputtering, the health care sector has been cruising—steadily adding jobs as the aging U.S. population grows. Health care jobs are on track to keep growing in 2012, IHS Global Insight senior economist Michael Montgomery tells U.S. News & World Report: “According to Montgomery, healthcare employment will continue to grow in 2012, possibly even more rapidly than it did in 2011, as the population continues to age and require more medical attention. According to Labor Department figures, from November 2010 to November 2011, healthcare and social assistance added...
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