Healthcare Jobs Listed Online Increased in May

While many industries across the nation have been suffering, the healthcare jobs (for more information click here) situation has relatively steady. Despite this, some areas of this industry have seen their share of layoffs. According to a recent press release from MedZilla.com, this sector rebounded somewhat during the month of May.

Each month MedZilla.com releases it’s Employment Outlook report. According to the most recent one, employers created a total of 24,000 new jobs in healthcare during May, which was 7,000 more positions gained than the previous month experienced.

Despite this, the industry did continue to see some layoffs. The largest of which occurred at Medtronic. According to the Associated press this employer experienced a 69 percent decline in its profits during the final quarter of last year, which made the layoffs necessary. The good news is that pharmaceutical companies laid off fewer workers in May than they have in any other month this year. This could mean that this particular area of the industry is beginning to recover

MedZilla’s report also showed that several states experienced a modest increase in the numbers of job listings posted online. Massachusetts and New Jersey saw the largest gain in Internet advertised positions, experiencing a 3.5 percent and 2.5 percent rise respectively. Some states did continue to see a decline in jobs online but none lost more than 1 percent of their total positions.

The most notable change MedZilla saw was the kind of jobs announced on the Internet. May saw a 10 percent increase in development jobs, such as research positions, in comparison to April. Sales, marketing and management positions all fell by around 4 percent during the month.

Employers making an active effort to locate properly qualified job candidates increased significantly in Illinois, New Jersey and Connecticut. The first saw a 7 percent rise, while the last two states experienced an increase of around 3 percent. During the same time employers in California, Texas and New York all decreased that efforts by around 3 percent.

The number of job seekers looking for jobs in the healthcare industry seemed to remain flat, which means that MedZilla charted very little change between the number in April and May. According to the release, no single state experienced an increase in job seekers higher than 1 percent.

"Sometimes, the numbers can be a little deceiving," said MedZilla’s Director of Marketing Michele Hopps. "'Change' indicates more or fewer people looking, when it's more likely that the volume, rather than the proportion, has changed."