Getting into Harlem Hospital Middle Mural Pavilion, bold job seekers had been warmly welcomed to a Harlem Hospital and Uncover Range Undertaking Job Honest. This was not your conventional recruiting occasion that solely provided resume drop-offs with recruiters, however meet-and-greet panel discussions with healthcare professionals, resume and profession workshop info, and persevering with schooling alternatives, plus enjoyable giveaways.
“That is the primary of its variety,” defined Darryl Roberts, principal of the Uncover Range Undertaking. “This job honest creates a pipeline for expertise within the Harlem group to not solely Harlem Hospital, however different private and non-private hospitals.” The job honest welcomes in-person one-on-one entry with numerous recruiters with the town’s main hospitals. Torrence Traynham, co-principal of Uncover Range, opened the panel discussions by mentioning, “That is the primary job honest to have three panel discussions, 10 employers, and 200 candidates and 300 job alternatives multi functional place.”
“We’re hiring for every little thing,” stated Jennifer Michel, director of recruitment and employment at Harlem Hospital. “We’re on the lookout for all positions medical and administrative. We’re on the lookout for not solely nursing, however positions in pharmacy, social work, and clerical. I’m reviewing resumes and expertise, schooling, and credentials and becoming them in the appropriate alternatives”
In addition to assembly recruiters, there have been three informative classes, and panel discussions with healthcare professionals providing Q&A on job recommendation and what’s subsequent for healthcare post-COVID-19. The panel discussions had been moderated by Shana Harmongoff, Harlem-born New York State District 30 official. The panel discussions linked job seekers to many healthcare professionals on what recommendation they’ll present on efficiently touchdown a job, and what obstacles they overcome to get to the place they’re at the moment.
“Don’t be afraid of failure,” stated Dr. Terrell Holloway, MD, psychiatry resident doctor at Yale New Haven and Mount Sinai Hospital College of Medication, “Some recommendation I’d give to job seekers: it begins with the fundamentals. If it’s your resume, work on that. If it’s your apparel, work on that. If it’s your LinkedIn, work on that. It’s a must to work on you.”
Enhancing your self to turning into a stronger job candidate in a job search was an vital objective, and the job honest provided entry to many profession and resume providers. Recruiters had been offering suggestions to job seekers, who wanted enchancment on their resumes earlier than being submitted for job vacancies. “We’re not solely recruiting for jobs, however aiding in resume and profession providers to assist job seekers,” defined Donna Culhane, expertise acquisition director at Northwell Well being. “Northwell is New York State’s largest non-public healthcare supplier. In addition to hiring for all our areas, we provide job seekers some ways to enhance themselves,” Culhane stated.
“Make sure that to maintain the resume tight!” declared Dr. Joan Culpepper-Morgan, MD, chief of gastroenterology at Harlem Hospital. She mentioned this through the dialogue panels in her recommendation for job seekers that “Resumes ought to be on level––particularly, with spell test.”
The Northwell Harlem @ Work Resume Writing and Profession Teaching Workshops, out there in English and Spanish, are free workshops that help in enhancing probabilities of success with job alternatives with Northwell Well being from meals providers to nursing.
The workshops will likely be held on the Mom African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at 140-6 West 137th Road on December 2nd, fifth and seventh, 2023. Registration might be performed prematurely on the church at 212-234-5700.
“Gaining credentials and coaching are helpful, particularly [when we] rent for nurses,” defined Mercedes Bass, affiliate director of nursing at Harlem Hospital. “Harlem Hospital gives the most effective coaching in nursing, particularly for brand spanking new graduates seeking to achieve expertise,” she stated. “There’s job coaching in lots of areas: psychiatry, outpatient, and surgical. Surgical procedure requires two years of expertise which might be gained right here within the hospital.”
Some job seekers had been on the lookout for reinvention and new path of their careers. This was illustrated by Shantay Carter, a registered nurse with Summit Well being, throughout one of many dialogue panels. “After 21 years of nursing, COVID-19 made me open my eyes to make myself extra marketable,” explains Carter. Being extra marketable may also help job seekers be employed on-the-spot, particularly with Queens Hospital from Jamaica, Queens. This was one other metropolis hospital on the lookout for prime expertise for nursing supervisory positions in maternity, and pre-op departments. “We needed to succeed in out to the opposite communities,” defined Prachi Parmar, senior acquisition specialist [non-clinical] of the Human Sources Division at Queens Hospital.
“We need to attain out to completely different individuals in regards to the openings with Queens, and different future occasions for the remainder of the 12 months. We additionally need to clarify the advantages like mortgage forgiveness, school tuition, {and professional} growth alternatives, like on-site stimulation coaching, and fellowship coaching packages. For additional info on job alternatives, advantages, and future hiring occasions with Queens, e mail Human Sources at QHCEmployment@nychhc.org with the topic line: Queens Occasion 2023.
In addition to medical positions, there’s a want for liaison help in emergency rooms to supply community-based providers for meals insecurity, housing points, authorized wants, or transportation.
“We’re in nice want within the emergency and psychiatric emergency division with our ACT (Assertive Neighborhood Group) Group,” stated Jason Yarbrough, director of recruitment of Metropolitan Human Sources Administration. “I got here to the job honest at the moment and noticed some robust candidates and will likely be reaching out,” said Yarbrough.
The hiring occasion was profitable in constructing a bridge for job seekers, recruiters, and healthcare professionals. Harlem native Brenia De La Cruz, former chair of the Worker Engagement Committee at Neighborhood Care with NYC Well being and Hospital, mentioned her distinctive journey within the healthcare discipline. “I initially began at Lehman School aspiring to be a nurse, however after going by way of the sciences, I made a decision to look into Well being Providers Administration,” stated De La Cruz who graduated from Lehman along with her BS in Well being Care Administration in 2012, then her MS in 2020, through the COVID-19 pandemic. She defined her distinctive profession path in a pandemic, “There’s alternative in chaos,” De La Cruz stated. She closed the final panel dialogue with insightful recommendation for job seekers of their search of the following main job alternative, “That careers will not be a straight line.”
