{"id":711905,"date":"2026-06-03T05:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711905\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:18:16","slug":"did-you-switch-to-a-healthcare-job-after-struggling-to-find-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711905\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you switch to a healthcare job after struggling to find a job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Washington\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwxf7d8000x28nqf0uc6h2m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Healthcare is one of the few industries still powering job growth in America.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwyg07200003b6r3drqbzdm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Last year, employers across industries added jobs at an unusually weak pace. Healthcare, however, has been an exception: For the past five years, the industry has been America\u2019s top job creator and now makes up about 15% of the US workforce, according to jobs site Indeed. The country\u2019s aging population and the necessity of healthcare have helped drive the industry\u2019s ongoing hiring spree.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpwxm19700083b6roj6z173m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC12197824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Researchers<\/a> found that a sizable share of new entrants into the healthcare industry in recent years were previously outside of the labor force or pivoted from non-health occupations. As hiring slows across much of the economy, workers who have struggled to find jobs in their own industries are increasingly turning to healthcare. The sector has remained a source of steady job growth, attracting anyone seeking a more reliable path into the workforce.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpx1sfhp0003356r50hidhtg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Are you one of those new healthcare workers? If so, we\u2019d love to hear from you.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Healthcare is one of the few industries still powering job growth in America. Last year, employers across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-711905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}