Sari Gillen, a Houston-based healthcare recruiter at Goodwin Recruiting, says it’s a great time to be a nurse or basically any kind of health care worker looking for a job. Catch her insights from the podcast On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti below:

SARI GILLEN: If they’re on LinkedIn especially, the nurses are likely receiving at least three to five offers per week.
Sometimes my biggest challenge is waking up my clients to that fact. Because when I get someone on the phone, when I get someone in front of me, I have to complete that process right there.

CHAKRABARTI: And if she doesn’t hire that person on the spot, Gillen says someone else will come right in behind her with a competing offer.

GILLEN: Most of my health care clients now, as soon as they post one job with me before I even provide them candidates adequately to fill that role, they’re already opening up multiple roles. The average number of roles I have open per client now is seven. They’re opening up new centers. They are scaling their clinics.
I also have acute care providers, hospitals. They are competing in the same market for the same licensed clinicians. They’re having to up their game with sign-on bonuses and reload bonuses.

CHAKRABARTI: Gillen says some of the big growth areas are in small to mid-size clinics and ambulatory surgical centers.

GILLEN: People are much more comfortable seeking health care outside of an acute care space.
They’re much more trusting of their urgent care centers and outpatient surgery. Nurse practitioners are able to completely run a practice and prescribe with offsite medical director in the form of an MD, so that’s in high demand as well.

CHAKRABARTI: The health care industry has so far as we’ve been talking about, been very recession proof when it comes to jobs, Gillen says, and clearly she hopes it stays that way.

GILLEN: As long as we don’t have a standardized health care program in this country that is provided by our government, the market is going to be competitive in that way. We have the baby boom generation that is turning 65 and over, entering into the Medicare/Medicaid market.
We haven’t figured out how to not age and become ill and pass away. You do have a nursing shortage now. And as long as that’s going on, you’ve got a smaller pool to pick from. So it’s intensely competitive. That’s not going to change unless the growth continues to be seen from the employment sector that will drive the return of a flush of clinicians into the market.
That’s only good news for us, especially as I get older. I want to make sure there’s adequate health care for me when I’m ready for it.”

You can read the full On Point podcast episode transcript at: The one thing driving U.S. job growth