The global healthcare industry experienced a 55% drop in new job postings related to virtual care in Q4 2023 compared with the previous quarter, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics. This compares to a 53% decrease versus Q4 2022. GlobalData’s Healthcare: Hiring Trends & Signals Q4 2023 report reveals comprehensive insights into hiring patterns, job roles, required skills, geographical trends, and key themes within the healthcare industry, facilitating anticipation of future workforce needs. Buy the report here.
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Notably, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations jobs accounted for a 49% share of the global healthcare industry’s virtual care-related total new job postings in Q4 2023, down 51% over the prior quarter.
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations drive virtual care-related hiring activity
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, with a share of 49%, emerged as the top virtual care-related job roles within the healthcare industry in Q4 2023, with new job postings drop by 51% quarter-on-quarter. Healthcare Support Occupations came in second with a share of 10% in Q4 2023, with new job postings dropping by 56% over the previous quarter.
The other prominent virtual care roles include Management Occupations with a 5% share in Q4 2023, Office and Administrative Support Occupations with a 4% share of new job postings.
Top five companies in healthcare industry accounted for 45% of hiring activity
The top companies, in terms of number of new job postings tracked by GlobalData, as of Q4 2023 were Virtua Health, Mission Health, PIH Health Hospital-Whittier, Tenet Healthcare, and DispatchHealth. Together they accounted for a combined share of 45% of all virtual care-related new jobs in the healthcare industry.
Virtua Health posted 985 virtual care-related new jobs in Q4 2023, Mission Health 680 jobs, PIH Health Hospital-Whittier 485 jobs, Tenet Healthcare 430 jobs, and DispatchHealth 316 jobs, according to GlobalData’s Job Analytics.
Hiring activity was driven by the US with a 96.20% share of total new job postings, Q4 2023
The largest share of virtual care-related new job postings in the healthcare industry in Q4 2023 was in the US with 96.20% followed by Canada (1.02%) and the UK (0.93%). The share represented by the US was eight percentage points higher than the 88.48% share it accounted for in Q3 2023.
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