May 14, 2020
Call it what you want. Freelance. Consulting. Gig work. These types of jobs are no fad. According to some of the most recent data, 36% of US workers are part of the gig economy. With over a third of the workforce involved, there are few industries that aren’t operating with some level of freelance talent. All the while, the healthcare industry is weathering a shortage in its workforce, with as many as 2.3 million new workers needed in the field by 2025. Included in those several million are roles for health IT professionals. For these professionals, technologies have made work opportunities in general more accessible. Companies plaster their openings all over the web, allowing talent to forgo traditional IT staffing agencies. Many IT consultants now rely on job boards to find a job that looks like the right fit to them. Unfortunately, it can be a time-consuming process that often results in dead ends and disappointment. But are traditional IT staffing agencies and online job boards really the only options? At HealthITq, we believe in two key tenets that allow today’s workforce to find the work where they want, when they want.
Health IT Access
For job seekers and employers alike, the biggest obstacle in their individual goals is access to opportunities. The traditional IT staffing agency has always been restrictive. The agency itself has access, but each job seeker and organization alike only knows as much as they’re told. So how are you supposed to access the opportunity you want if you never know it exists? Job boards were meant to solve that problem. And to a certain extent, they do. Every day, new jobs are posted, so much so that it can be hard to keep track of the good opportunities and to spot the right fits. HealthITq believes that access means access to exactly what you want. It’s the clarity of a job board but the fine-tuning of a staffing agency.
Health IT Ability
Beyond access to opportunities is the need to market your skills and experience. HealthITq allows you to build a unique skill profile to market your experience and abilities. It’s these abilities that you’re looking to use each day, and it’s these abilities that healthcare organizations need. HealthITq make your skills visible to high quality healthcare organizations in need of talent.
Here’s how it works:
• Complete the Consultant Registration page
• Identify and select ALL categories for which you have skills and expertise — increase your visibility by selecting multiple skill categories
• View the HealthITq Consultant Dashboard to review qualifying projects
• Bid on projects that are matched to your skills and expertise
• Communicate directly with the organizations of your choice
• Finalize project scope details with the organization
• Sign agreement and scope of work with HealthITq
• Launch the project
Today’s IT professionals understand the importance of quality of life. To many, that means flexibility and freedom to choose interesting work that leverages their unique expertise.