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Travel Jobs: Market ‘Extremely Competitive’ In January 2019, Recruiters Say

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For many reasons, January is seen as one of the busiest months of the year in travel healthcare.

Part of it is purely healthcare related, due to high patient census from flu activity and a spike in seasonal injuries, which means hospitals have increased needs for temporary staff (and are typically working with newly-approved budgets). It also has to do with how many travel nurses and allied healthcare professionals plan their assignments each year, said Calvin Hoye, a senior talent advisor with LiquidAgents Healthcare.

“January sets the tone for the whole year,” Hoye said. “Lots of travelers are either coming off of extensions from the fall or are looking for their first job of the year after the holidays.”

Travel Healthcare Job Market for January 2019

Here’s a quick breakdown of the states and travel healthcare job specialties that are most-in-demand now and are expected to stay popular in January, according to data provided by industry recruiters to Healthcare Traveler Today.

  • Illinois
    • RN: Medical-surgical, telemetry, ER, labor and delivery
  • Indiana
    • RN: Medical-surgical, telemetry
  • Kentucky
    • RN: Medical-surgical, telemetry, ER, labor and delivery
  • Missouri
    • RN: Medical-surgical, telemetry, psychiatric, ICU (Needs are increasing)
  • Maine
    • RN: OR
    • Surgical Tech: OR
  • New Hampshire
    • RN: OR
    • Surgical Tech: OR
  • North Carolina
    • RN: Medical-surgical, telemetry, PACU, OR
    • Surgical Tech: OR
  • Pennsylvania
    • RN: All core positions (medical-surgical, telemetry, ICU, ER, OR). At least 150 openings available as of 1/11.
  • Texas
    • RN: Medical-surgical, telemetry, ER, labor and delivery

Other states to consider in January 2019:

Virginia

Along with a slowly increasing level of flu activity, thousands of newly approved low-income residents gained Medicaid coverage in Virginia on January 1 thanks to a voter-approved expansion initiative.

As a result, we could see a spike in traveler needs to meet an increased patient census in high-population areas like Richmond, Roanoke and Charlottesville. Roanoke has one of the highest Medicaid populations per capita, according to a WSLS 10 report.

Colorado, New Mexico, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi

All of these states—Colorado most of all—have had the highest levels of flu-like activity in the past three weeks, which is typically when flu-like activity peaks for the season.

Tips from recruiters for January 2019

As was the common theme towards the end of last year, speed and flexibility are the best traits to have when looking for a January job or February pre-book right now, recruiters say.

“Most jobs are moving incredibly fast for us,” Jamison Reitinger with LiquidAgents Healthcare said. “You have to know what you want, know what you can be flexible on, and pick a recruiter who you can rely on to guide you through this market with those things in mind. We’re seeing great candidates miss out on jobs because they were an hour or two late on their submittal.  Speed and efficiency are everything.”

December 2018’s Top Markets

  1. Texas
  2. California
  3. Florida
  4. Arizona
  5. Georgia
  6. New Mexico
  7. Tennessee
  8. Virginia
  9. Indiana
  10. Kentucky
  11. North Carolina
  12. South Carolina
  13. Maine
  14. Oklahoma
  15. Idaho
  16. Missouri
  17. Pennsylvania
  18. Arkansas
  19. Nevada
  20. Iowa
  21. Michigan
  22. Oregon
  23. Wisconsin
  24. West Virginia
  25. Ohio
  26. Hawaii
  27. Alabama
  28. Illinois
  29. New Jersey
  30. Washington
  31. Colorado
  32. Kansas
  33. Massachusetts
  34. Mississippi
  35. Alaska
  36. Louisiana
  37. Maryland
  38. Minnesota
  39. New Hampshire
  40. Utah
  41. Wyoming
  42. Connecticut
  43. Washington D.C.
  44. Deleware
  45. Montana
  46. North Dakota
  47. Nebraska
  48. New York
  49. Rhode Island
  50. South Dakota
  51. Vermont

Editor’s note: This list is created by analyzing the number of travelers applying for jobs in these individual states and Washington D.C. This data is not necessarily an indicator of job volume. Application data comes from the StaffDNA jobs database.

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