Do not wait for a personal invitation to apply for a job. Yes, you should check various online web resources for job hunters
and visit IHE’s Career Services Department, but you may not see every job
posting this way. Don’t be afraid to
learn what job postings medical or dental offices have by contacting them
directly (using your best telephone or email etiquette) or visiting their
websites. For example, some hospitals post their job opening on
bulletin boards somewhere on the premises and online on their websites. Look up their websites on a search engine
like Yahoo! or Google.
If you want to find the names and websites of all the
hospitals in New Jersey—or in just one county, such as Hudson County—visit the
New Jersey Hospital Association’s directories at http://www.njha.com/directories/. From there, you can see lists of hospitals. Click on the name of a hospital to visit its
website. Once there, search for
information on careers. (As always, your
librarian can help you navigate the website.)
Which hospitals should you apply to? Obviously, you should consider ones that you
know you will be able to commute to, but you also may prefer to work at one
with a good reputation. Every year, the
news magazine U. S. News and World Report
determines the best hospitals in the country.
You can find out about this year’s ranking at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals. The best scoring New Jersey hospitals are
listed at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/nj;
the best scorers in the New York City area (including northern New Jersey) are
at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/new-york-ny.
Similarly, you can find a listing of the dental clinics
in New Jersey (organized by county) at http://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/oral/documents/dental_directory.pdf
or federally qualified health centers in the state at http://web.doh.state.nj.us/apps2/fhs/cphc/cphcSearch.aspx.
You also can look up medical and dental offices using
Google maps (http://maps.google.com/). Try a search term such as “doctors near 600
Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City, NJ”—or perhaps better yet, use your own address
instead of IHE’s. (For a dental
assisting job, try “dentists” or “dental” instead of “doctors”.) Why not find out if any of the doctors listed
are hiring, or at least accepting résumés?
