24 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • JUNE 2018
PRESS BUSINESS
HIRE EDUCATION
A decade’s worth of healthcare expansion and population aging has reshaped the job market.
In recent years, healthcare has
become the Island’s biggest and
fastest-growing sector. At the same
time, employers are less fixated on
applicants’ areas of study and more
focused on how they rate in soft
skills such as leadership capacity,
ability to work in small groups, and
aptitude for solving problems.
The exception to this pattern:
nursing.
“At Molloy, half of our students are
nursing majors,” Brosnan continues.
“There are more nursing jobs than
there are graduates. I wish my
daughter were a nurse,” she says with
a laugh.
Northwell Health, she adds, “is
probably the leading recruiter on
Long Island right now.”
Change “probably” to “is” and
you appreciate the Class of ’18’s
employment prospects. A decade’s
worth of healthcare expansion and
population aging has reshaped the
job market. Healthcare is now the
source of fastest job growth for
many non-healthcare occupations.
Healthcare and the related field of
social assistance paced regional job
growth in April, adding 3,300 new
positions, a record for the month.
Conversations with healthcare
employers, career counselors, and new
grads point to that trend continuing.
Northwell alone hires about 145
people on a typical week, including
about 20 new grads, according to Judy
Howard, the system’s vice president of
talent acquisition.
Degreed positions in greatest
demand are specialty nurses for
assignment in neonatal, critical
care, perioperative, dialysis and
anesthesia. Also in high demand
are physician assistants, lab
technologists, pharmacists and
engineers.
Northwell is also recruiting people
with associate degrees as surgical
techs and EEG technicians, Howard
says.
These jobs pay. Northwell would
not discuss salaries, but online
compensation sites say Northwell
pays nurses on average nearly
$87,000 per year. In comparison,
the average Long Island salary runs
about $54,300, says PayScale.com.
Career counselors at Hofstra,
Adelphi and Stony Brook also
named Northwell as a major talent
recruiter. Tom Ward, who heads
Adelphi’s career center, listed NYU
Winthrop Hospital and Catholic
Health Services of Long Island
as additional major recruiters.
Andrea Lipack, associate director of
employer relations at Stony Brook,
listed NYU Langone Health and
Memorial Sloan Kettering as major
hirers along with Northwell.
Every June, LI produces a flood of
newly minted accountants, many
of them eyeing careers with top
accounting firms. That’s still the
case, although healthcare now
absorbs many of them as well.
“We talk to our students and say,
‘Look at healthcare, even if you’re
an accounting student,” Michelle
Kyriakides, executive director of
Hofstra’s career center, tells me.
“We see most positions are posted
in healthcare, as well as high tech,
advertising and marketing services,
and nonprofit.”
Warren Strugatch is a partner
at Inflection Point Associates,
a marketing, public relations
and management consulting
firm in Stony Brook. Online at
InflectionPointAssoc.com
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A TALE OF 2 MBAS
Danielle Catulli and Joe Lucito both
graduated from Adelphi University
in May as new MBAs. They are
among the minority of students
who’ve accepted pregraduation
employment offers.
Danielle interned for three
summers for Acxiom, a marketing
database company in Manhattan.
She also played shortstop on her
school’s Division II team, which
reached the World Series two years
running. Both activities interested
the IBM recruitment team she met
on campus. Danielle starts work
at IBM’s Consulting by Degree
s program this summer. Salary:
Around $70,000.
Joe Lucito earned an MBA with
a concentration in finance, after
completing an undergrad degree
in accounting. He interned at
the Manhattan offices of both
Merrill Lynch and Marks Paneth, a
mid-sized accounting firm. Marks
Paneth extended Joe a job offer in
its audit department this spring. Joe
accepted and plans to start in July.
Salary: around $60,000.
For Class of ‘18, the jobs are in healthcare,
Long Island’s biggest
and fastest-growing sector.