Slightly more than half — 51 percent — of healthcare employers plan to hire full-time workers in the next six months of the year, according to CareerBuilder and MiracleWorkers.com's most recent national survey.
Additionally, 34 percent of employers plan to hire part-time employees, up from 28 percent in 2012, and 27 percent plan to hire temporary or contract workers, up from 12 percent last year.
The survey results include responses from more than 200 healthcare hiring managers and human resources professionals.
The following are areas that employers plan to hire in, according to the survey:
• Jobs tied to health informatics: 37 percent
• Jobs tied to cloud technology: 10 percent
• Jobs tied to social media: 7 percent
• Jobs tied to managing and interpreting big data: 7 percent
• Jobs tied to mobile technology: 6 percent
• Jobs tied to financial regulations: 6 percent
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