HealthCareerWeb.com, a division of Dominion Enterprises, has profiled thetop profession-based search engine queries that health care job seekers used tofind the Web site in the past three months.   The most popularrequests were queries for nursing jobs at 22.43% – a refreshing response to thewidespread nursing shortage nationwide.  

The next most popular queries were for pharmacy technician jobs at 17.40%,followed closely by medical assistant jobsat 16.76% and home health care jobsat 15.45%.   Trailing behind, in consecutive order, were dentalassistant jobs at 6.09%, health care management jobs at 4.32%, medical billingjobs at 2.17%, nuclear medicine jobs at 1.83%, art therapy jobs at 1.74% andphlebotomy jobs at 1.65%. 

This popularity of nursing job searches supports an observation from theBureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09 ed.,“enrollments in nursing programs at all levels have increased more rapidly inthe past few years as students seek jobs with stable employment.”  Another statement from the from the same source continues, “employment ofregistered nurses is expected to grow 23percent from 2006 to 2016, much faster than the average for alloccupations.” 

According to Denise Tanner, business development manager atHealthCareerWeb.com, “We often see requests for nursing jobs byregion.   For example, nursing jobs in Michigan’ and even requests bydiscipline, such as pediatric nursing jobs.’   We do our best tooffer online nursing-job seekers a variety of employer ads from across thenation.”

HealthCareerWeb.com is a leading healthcare job boardand social network for nurses, surgeons, physicians, and others in the medicalfield.  The Web site provides a space for medical professionals to searchfor careers in the health care field, as well as gather information andexchange ideas with others in the medical industry through its MedComcommunity.   All search query data for HealthCareerWeb.com iscompiled from Omniture® SiteCatalyst®. 

About Dominion Enterprises

Dominion Enterprises, a division of Landmark Communications, is a leadingmarketing services company serving the automotive, real estate, apartment,recruitment and marine markets. The company operates a variety of businessesthat offer Internet marketing, Web site design and hosting, lead generation,CRM, and data capture and distribution services. The company has more than 40market-leading Web sites reaching more than 12.5 million unique monthlyvisitors, and more than 500 magazines with a weekly circulation of over 5million. Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., the company has nearly 6,000 employeesnationwide and annualized revenue of more than $946 million. For moreinformation, visit http://www.DominionEnterprises.com.