This page provides updates for our career center, Healthcarejobs.org and for the book titled Health Care Job Explosion! High Growth Health Care Careers & Job Locator by Dennis V. Damp. Career Center site changes will be posted here including recent press releases and new reviews for Health Care Job Explosion.

• Press Releases
• Media Coverage and Reviews
• Health Care Job Explosion! 4th edition

• 5/17/2008 -- Updated & Expanded Healthcare Career Center Launched
• 4/15/2008 -- Bookhaven Press enters an exclusive resume services agreement with Career Pro Global resume services
• 2/01/2008 -- The Book of U.S. Government Jobs - 10th edition
• 5/01/2006 -- Health Care Job Explosion! - 4th edition release

•  Library Journal Review, October 1, 2006 (CAREERS)

   

  Damp, Dennis V. Health Care Job Explosion! High Growth Health Care Careers and Job Locator. 4^th ed. Bookhaven. 2006. c.320p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-943641-25-X (ISBN 978-0-943641-25-6). pap. $19.95.

   

  CAREERS

   

  "With the simple presentation, current facts, and career advice from those in the trenches, the fourth edition of this all-inclusive resource will motivate patrons looking for a job in the health services field. Damp (The Book of U.S. Government Jobs) cites projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that one out of every five new jobs created by 2014 will be in the health services field. Readers get helpful tips and guidance about the application and interview process. The third chapter presents an array of useful professional resources including books, job fairs, associations, and web sites. Damp then moves on to cover specific health services fields and the relevant jobs within each category (e.g., health technicians, pharmacy, therapy, nursing, social services, home healthcare). For each job, he covers the significant points such as working conditions, necessary training, employment outlook, and earnings. The first appendix discusses healthcare corporations as a high-growth area for possible employment; the second appendix provides scholarship and tuition information. Overall, this inexpensive resource acts as a great starting point for someone considering a field where there is an ever-increasing demand for personnel. Recommended for all public libraries."

   

• A comprehensive career guide and a job locator for health care jobs, August 11, 2006
  
  Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI)
  
  "The new fourth edition of "Health Care Job Explosion!: High Growth Health Care Careers and Job Locator" is a brand new comprehensive career guide and a job locator for health care jobs. Health career data can be accessed at multiple internet sites, with one created especially for this book (http://healthcarejobs.org). The book is very user-friendly and is conveniently organized into 10 chapters. The first, "the Health Care Explosion," is an overview, while the second, "the Nexus - Making a Connection," is helpful to increase chances of obtaining the desired job. Chapter three, "Job Sources for Everyone," is an invaluable key to many resources, including job advertising services, job fairs, job hotlines, internet sites, associations and directories. It even includes pages on the Internet, Surfing lessons, LIST SERVERS, search engines, and education and career resources. A handy system of symbols connects the reader to the desired resource. Chapters four through ten cover general health care job areas, from health technologists and technicians to dietetics, pharmacy, therapy, nursing, health and social services, health diagnosing occupations and assistants, and home health care jobs. Each of these chapters begins with an interview with a practicing health care worker in the listed field. Job descriptions include significant points, a description of the nature of the work, working conditions, training, qualifications and advancement, job outlook, earnings, and related occupations. This is followed by an exhaustive listing of additional special resources pertaining to that occupation/area, again using the helpful icons established in chapter 3. Finally, Appendices A and B present information about health care corporations and sources for tuition and scholarships for specialized health care job training. "Health Care Job Explosion!" is an updated resource that will serve all who seek to build a career in one of the many areas related to health care in the United States. It would be a valued addition to the shelves of libraries and education institutions."
   
• The prestigious "Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling" published a full review of this title in a recent 2006 issue. An excerpt follows:
  
  "This fourth edition of Health Care Job Explosion is full of ideas about potential careers in the health care industry as well as how to get a job in these careers....The publisher provides information on health care professions, as well as careers that one might pursue in the health care industry which are not specifically in the field (e.g., computer applications, billing clerks). 
   
  The strength of the book is its comprehensiveness about available resources, how to use them, and what to expect from them... It would be an excellent resource for rehabilitationists to access job information for their clients. It could also be provided to clients to guide their own job search efforts. Finally, it would be helpful to people who are trying to define a vocational objective in the medical services area."
   
  Joseph E. Havranek, Ed.D., CRC
  Professor of Rehabilitation Counseling
  Bowling Green State University
  Bowling Green, Ohio
   
• The web site http://beyond.com mentioned and recommended Health Care Job Explosion in their article titled Healthy Outlook for Jobs in the Healthcare Industry . An article excerpt follows.

   

  "Recent graduates looking to enter the healthcare field or those already in the field have a bright future ahead. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, jobs in healthcare will increase by 26 percent by 2008, which equates into 2.8 million new jobs. Jobs in demand are not necessarily limited to doctors and nurses. There are a wide range of jobs available across the entire healthcare field that will be steadily increasing in the months and years to come.....
  
  If you would like more information on job growth and available resources for the healthcare industry, a great resource to read is the 4th edition of Health Care Job Explosion! High Growth Health Careers and Job Locator by Dennis V. Damp. The new 4th edition includes interviews with health care specialists and features over 1400 resources to help readers explore careers and locate job vacancies in this growing industry field."
  
• Journal of Economic Literature, September 2006
  
  "Revised fourth edition provides a detailed description of each of the major health care career fields and comprehensive resources for job announcements, placement services, directories, and general information. Discusses the health care explosion; making a connection; job sources for everyone; health technologists, health technicians, dietetics, pharmacy, and therapy occupations; nursing careers; health and social services occupations; health diagnosing occupations and assistants; and home health care job opportunities. Index."