Healthcare employment will remain stable during the last half of 2013, with a slight improvement in hiring from last year in permanent jobs and a 15 percent spike in temp positions, according to the results of a survey from CareerBuilder.com and MiracleWorkers.com.
“While projected additions to full-time staffs have improved marginally from last year, temporary and part-time hiring is expected to grow much more rapidly,” said Jason Lovelace, president of CareerBuilder Healthcare, “This trend, along with an increase in healthcare employers planning on transitioning temporary employees to full-time roles over the next quarter, reflects the hesitation typical of a postrecession market, along with growing optimism that will continue as employers gain confidence in the economic recovery.”
More than half of the 216 healthcare employers surveyed plan to hire full-time, permanent employees, and more than a third plan to hire part-time employees, both up from this time last year. Only 27 percent of those employers, however, plan to hire full-time, permanent employees in Q3.
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