MedCareers Launches the Internet's Largest Database of Healthcare Job Opportunities and Resumes
New Web Site is the Most Easy-to-Use, Flexible Career and Staffing Portal
Created Specifically for the Healthcare Industry
ATLANTA (February 15, 2000) – From physicians to phlebotomists, nurses to pharmacists, hospital administrators and more, healthcare professionals now have a new online career resource designed specifically for them – MedCAREERS (www.medcareers.com), the Internet’s largest database of healthcare jobs and resumes. With today’s corporate launch, MedCAREERS offers the Internet’s most comprehensive Web site devoted exclusively to providing career and staffing solutions for healthcare professionals.
With such online features as customized search and sorting tools, resume building, messaging centers and automated management of job postings, MedCAREERS offers the Internet’s most powerful job search and matching engine available for the healthcare professional.
“Seventy-eight percent of healthcare costs are attributed to recruitment, training and other staffing costs,” said Will Goldstein, President and CEO of MedCAREERS. “With today’s launch of MedCAREERS.com, we are utilizing the Internet to reduce the cost associated with the traditional recruiting and staffing process while increasing efficiency for all parties involved.”
According to Forrester Research Inc., the online career recruitment industry will grow from $263 million in 1999 to $525 million in 2000 and $1.7 billion in 2003. “We want to take advantage of the explosive growth in online recruiting and staffing by focusing our efforts on a specific industry,” said Goldstein, a 10-year veteran of the recruitment industry.
With today’s launch, MedCAREERS has the largest number of healthcare specific jobs (more than 10,000) and a resume database of more than 4,500 resumes. The company expects to post over 200,000 jobs on its Web site by the end of the third quarter.
With a confidential, customizable search and sorting system, job seekers can conduct advanced searches by key words, geographic region, job posting date, company and specialty area. Job seekers have control over how their resumes are viewed and what personal information is made available on the Web site. The employers have access to a candidate database that allows for in-depth screening of available resumes. Once a job is posted with MedCAREERS, employers are automatically matched with job seekers whose resumes fit their qualifications.
MedCAREERS offers powerful online tools, including:
- Resume Builder - The Resume Builder helps job seekers create a secure profile that is consistent with other resumes formatted and posted on MedCAREERS. The completed profile, including education, experience, state licenses and specialty areas, can be sent directly to employers through the MedCAREERS Message Center. MedCAREERS offers the option to track the number of times a potential employer views a job seeker’s resume.
- Message Center - The MedCAREERS Message Center lets job seekers and employers communicate securely and directly through the Web site and track sent and received messages and contact information. Job seekers can apply for positions immediately through the Message Center or save job descriptions in their personal files. Employers can contact prospective employees directly through a link on the job seeker’s resume.
- Control Center - The Control Center allows employers to securely manage their job postings and company information in one place on the Web site. The Control Center caters to both large and small employers because of the ability to easily track, search and manage job postings, whether the employer has a hundred job postings or a thousand job postings. When an employer registers on the Web site, the MedCAREERS customer service department is notified immediately and a representative contacts the employer to verify the job postings and to answer any questions.
Additionally, job seekers and employers have access to career tools that offer career and search advice, research capabilities and relevant links to maps, neighborhood locators and moving services. MedCAREERS’ partners, including such healthcare industry names as partner and investor Healtheon/WebMD Corp., offer visitors to the site additional reach for their job search and job postings through co-branded sites.
About MedCAREERS
Based in Atlanta, MedCAREERS, Inc. is a privately held corporation that manages and markets the Internet’s most comprehensive, flexible Web site devoted exclusively to providing career and staffing solutions for healthcare professionals. MedCAREERS’ exclusive technology provides a full suite of career management tools, allowing job candidates and employers to post resumes and job opportunities on multiple partner sites, such as Healtheon/WebMD Corp.
Contact:
Urcel R. Fields, MPH
Content Manager
Medcareers.com
800-307-1038
ufields@medcareers.com
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