Tech Skills + Soft Skills Make More Marketable Healthcare Candidates
It’s a great time to be a healthcare professional. From “essential” to explosive, job growth in healthcare is expected to far exceed any other occupation in the next 5 years- creating more demand for candidates like you.
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It’s a great time to be a healthcare professional. Not only did the pandemic shine a spotlight on how “essential” healthcare workers are, but it also underscored the importance of innovative industry services like telehealth, which, in turn created more demand and more opportunities for workers in this fast-growing industry. The bottom line: job growth in healthcare is expected to far exceed any other in the next 5 years.
- 2.6 million new jobs will be added to the industry by 2030*
- 16% growth predicted by 2030 in healthcare occupations (much faster than average)*
- Healthcare occupations are projected to add more jobs than any of the other occupational groups.*
- 39% of all open jobs in the last year are healthcare positions**
- 32% projected growth of medical/health services manager jobs by 2030 (highest growth of all healthcare services industry positions)
*SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm
**SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
According to our 2022 Salary Guide for the Healthcare Services Industry, here are the top jobs hiring managers are looking to fill right now, along with their salary ranges:
- HIM Manager $100k-$148k
- Healthcare Data Analyst $55k-$108k
- Practice Manager $69k-$107k
- Medical Collector $51k-$83k
- Revenue Cycle Analyst $66k-$101k
- EHR Implementation Specialist $58k-$107k
So, which skills should you promote?
Whether you’re looking to start a career in healthcare support, or move up to a better position, it’s important to make yourself as marketable as possible to a potential employer. In the Clinician of the Future survey by Elsevier, a leading publisher of health science books and journals, respondents overwhelmingly agreed that healthcare workers need to sharpen their tech skills and highlight their soft skills.
- 88% of clinicians globally agreed that being technologically savvy is more important in a clinician’s daily role today than it was a decade ago
- 82% of clinicians agreed that soft skills have become increasingly important in the last decade (2011 to 2021).
Want additional insights to help you make the most informed career decisions? Download our 2022 Healthcare Career Guide now.
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