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Health Care Recruiters Struggle to Fill Vacancies

Despite the economic downturn and soaring unemployment rate, health care recruiters continue to struggle to fill vacancies, the Associated Press reports. For example, a hospital recruiter in Indianapolis notes that it is a struggle to find qualified nurses, pharmacists, ultrasound technologists and MRI technicians to fill local vacancies. According to economists, the root of the problem is a mismatch between the types of work available and the number of individuals with the qualifications and skills required to fulfill such roles. Although such highly-specialized jobs were hard to fill prior to the economic slowdown, it is becoming increasingly more difficult because recruiters have become more selective and less willing to take a chance, financial or otherwise, on an untested worker. Even in cases where a candidate is qualified, employers may now take longer to assess applicants and make a hiring decision because there is less fear of losing that individual to a competitor. According to the AP, such changes are expected to make it more difficult for the unemployment rate, which now hovers at approximately 9.8 percent across all sectors, to return to healthier levels (Leonard, AP/Miami Herald, 10/4/09).

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