The internet is full of sites now which can cut out the middle man role of the agencies, and provide information directly from a healthcare employer’s HR department to a huge number of prospective employees, without going through the filter of an agency.
Avoid pitfalls with the right information
With this in mind, the kind of information a healthcare HR department includes in a posting to a job board needs to answer as many of the questions a new candidate might have as possible, because otherwise there are two pitfalls:
- Firstly that HR department could find themselves answering a lot of calls and emails from people interested in the work, asking for clarifications and information that they need before they apply.
- Secondly that the busy professionals required to fill these roles don’t feel they have all the info or time they need to make an application.
For HR staff, therefore, it’s vital to make sure the following information is included in every vacancy posted:
- The candidate specifications including any qualifications and experience
- The duties involved in the role, including overtime
- The salary or salary range
- The hours per week as a minimum
- Clear instructions on how to apply and when
With that in mind, here are the top 6 healthcare jobs boards for comparing and contrasting the kinds of listings that are on offer to potential employees in the sector. Take a look at these and you’ll see that there are a few don’t, but many do’s, when it comes to good practice.
DoctorCPR
Doctorcpr.com has a wide range of listings for vacancies around the world, and a reach of over 500,000 healthcare professionals globally. As one of the most high profile sector specific job boards in the world, this is the best site for reaching healthcare professionals. It is very user-friendly and easy to navigate and has excellent customer service and support as well.
Guardian Jobs
theguardian.com/jobs/health is the specific health-related jobs section on one of the world’s most prestigious newspapers, which is read by high level professionals and academics in all fields and includes international listings. Although not a health specific site, it does include very prestigious roles for advanced medical professionals.
Healthjobs
Healthjobs.com has a large number of listings and although a little spammy it’s very comprehensive. The site can sometimes take a long time to load but there are some good listings among the large amount of data on the site.
Medicolink
Medicolink is a site specifically for searching for jobs in Danish achealthcare and has an international outreach. Danish workers are supposedly among the happiest in the world, and Denmark is a great place to live, so any healthcare professionals outside the country considering a move should take a look at the positions available on this site.
Careers Health Care
CareersHealthCare.com is a US-based site listing jobs all around America in healthcare. The site lists all kinds of jobs including hands-on and clerical or admin roles. Because it is a US site, it is already extremely big and offers a lot of variety due to the size of the US healthcare landscape.
Health eCareers
Healthecareers.com allows you to search over 17,000 positions in healthcare and is an extremely easy to use website which also has a wealth of other information. It has several high profile companies associated with it and is a very reputable site, although again it is only for positions in the US.
