Jacobi Hospital Shortages Helps Woman Go From Desk To Scrubs
Facing a shortage of nurses, Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx turned to an unlikely prospect: clerical worker Ewa Stasiewicz. The hospital sent the Brooklyn mother of two to nursing school–for free.
“They were paying for my tuition and my books, and I was getting my regular salary,” says Ms. Stasiewicz, 32, who began her studies at the College of Staten Island in 2003.
Three years later, she swapped her 9-to-5 job at Jacobi for 12-hour shifts on a medical/surgical floor.
Health care is one of a handful of industries across New York City in the vanguard of the battle for talent. Because of especially high demand, health care, engineering and online advertising are suffering from acute worker shortages.
Confronting the reality that even higher salaries aren’t sufficient to draw new employees to their fields, businesses in all three industries have turned to education for the answer. They are focusing their efforts not only on luring individuals already working in those fields, but also on producing new ones.
“It’s very competitive, which is why we look at building training programs and hiring from undergrads,” says Pete Stein, general manager for the New York office of online ad firm Avenue A|Razorfish, which currently has 50 to 60 openings.
The wider business world might take note. More than 77 million baby boomers are expected to retire by 2020, and only about 40 million workers will be available to take their places. In New York City–where roughly one in six workers is 55 or older–shortages are expected across key industries.
SOURCE: CrainsNewYork.com
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