Please follow these guidelines when posting your healthcare jobs on line. These guidelines help make job postings consistent, easy to read and meaningful to Job Seekers. Our Quality Assurance staff reviews and edits each job posting for compliance to these guidelines. If you have any questions regarding job postings please feel free to contact our friendly customer support team at 800.307.1038 M-F, 9am to 5pm ET or by e-mail at customersupport@medcareers.com.

Job postings are organized by profession and specialty – you’ll receive a much better response by posting specific jobs under specific specialty headings. Each job posting should represent a specific position identified by a specific job title for an identified Job Poster. Generic job postings such as “… many openings for RNs in all areas…” or “…positions available in Med/Surg, ICU, CCU, ER, OR.” are not typically successful and generally not permitted. If you feel there is not a specialty available that matches your position(s) please contact Customer Support for assistance.

Job postings should contain all information necessary to describe the position and not refer Job Seekers to other sources for information. Job Seekers, especially healthcare types who are always busy, don’t want to go hunting for the information they want. Phrases such as “… please go to our web site for a complete description of this job…” is likely to cause potential candidates to skip to the next job. Postings should not direct job seekers to another place for additional job postings.

Postings that appeal the most to Job Seekers are detailed without being too long. The most appealing postings contain

• Specific Job Title.
• A Job Description that’s position-specific, describes job duties and work environment.
• Qualifications identifying required and preferred qualifications.
• A full description of the employer including location.

Take a minute to review all of the different types of information fields available with each job posting. Placing information in the most appropriate field will make it easier for Job Seekers to locate it. Placing information in a different area other than the field defined for it will make it harder for Job Seekers to get what they need to know out of the posting. Examples include adding job type (part time, full time) in the Job Title, putting qualifications or salary range in the description field, etc.

Per our Legal Statement all content should be legal, moral, ethical and non-discriminatory.

The accuracy and quality of your job posting information will influence the Job Seeker’s impression of your organization. Here are some general guidelines:

• Job Titles and Facility Names should be in title case (capitalizing the first letter of each word). Please don’t use all upper or lower case – this makes these postings harder to read for Job Seekers.
• Job Titles that are specific to the position such as “RN – Neuro ICU” will stand out in a list of search results better rather than a generic “Staff Nurse” job title.
• In the Job Description, Qualifications and Company Information sections please use complete sentences in sentence case (capitalizing the only the first word of the sentence) with proper punctuation including periods at the end of each sentence. Check the entry for spelling and readability. Many of our most successful job posters screen their postings in a word processing program for spelling, grammar and punctuation before pasting the verbiage into the site.

Job postings are most successful if they are easy to read for the Job Seeker. Postings with lots of abbreviations, non-standard abbreviations, numerous acronyms and terms specific to your organization make it difficult for the Job Seeker to read and understand your posting. Here are some tips:

Use abbreviations sparingly and appropriately. Try not to use any abbreviations in Job Titles – there’s plenty of room for you to spell out most titles. Consider the different levels of readability between:

”Asst. Ns Mgr. ICU” and “Assistant Nurse Manager – ICU”

If you include terms, acronyms or abbreviations that are specific to your facility be sure you explain or define them in the content of the posting. For example the description ”…staff Respiratory Therapist for 7SW…” leaves potential applicants wondering what type of unit the 7SW is.

You’ll appeal to a larger group of Job Seekers if you spell out and/or provide a description instead of abbreviating.

”…seeking an experienced Physical Therapist for our Brain Injury Rehab Center (BIRC). BIRC provides rehab to recovering head injury patients using holistic….”

We limit the formatting capabilities on job postings to keep searches fast (especially key word searches). Most existing formatting used in word processing programs (such as paragraphs, bold, italics, and bullets) will not translate into the on-line posting. You can insert a paragraph (return and skip a line) in longer descriptions or qualifications by entering "<P>" at the beginning of the new paragraph. Job Posters may use HTML tags to format their postings providing it doesn't create an error on the page and the display is professional in appearance. Be sure to review the job posting on line after you’ve entered it to see how it looks and reads.

Job Seekers place a great deal of emphasis on the date the job was posted or updated. MedCareers allows Job Seekers to search by job date and displays the date with each posting. It is the Job Poster’s responsibility to manage their job postings on line including entering new jobs and removing jobs that have been filled or are no longer available. The system’s job duration category assists in keeping jobs ‘fresh’ by inactivating them after 30 days or renewing them automatically every 30 days (thus assigning a new date to the job). Job date is the date the job was posted initially, the date it was renewed, or the date the status was changed to active from another status (such as inactive or deleted). Posters with jobs that they can always use candidates for should set these jobs to 30-day with auto renewal for the maximum exposure.