Medical Assistant - How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!

Brad Andrews

Description

Put Your Career on the Fast Track. Get this book Now and Get Noticed By Top Employers Today for Top Paying Jobs as: Medical Assistants, Clinical Medical Assistants, Ophthalmic Medical Assistants, Optometric assistants, Podiatric Medical Assistants, Dialysis Patient Care Technician, Phlebotomist, Certified Nursing Assistant.

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Medical Assistant Job, or to apply for a better job, loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!
This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

Highly recommended to any harried Medical Assistant jobseeker, you'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it:

1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview;

2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style;

3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job.

This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Medical Assistant Job or move up in the system, get this book.

Sujets

• Medical Assistants
• Allied Health Services
• Medical
• Médecine

Informations

• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781743042441
• Langue: English

Extrait

Getting and Finding Medical Assistants Jobs – The Ultimate Guide for Job Seekers and Recruiters

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ................................................9

MEDICAL ASSISTANTS–13THE LOWDOWN...........

Significant Points.......................................... 14

Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement .................................................................. 19

Employment ................................................ 22

Job Outlook ................................................. 23

Projections Data........................................... 25

Earnings ..................................................... 26

Related Occupations ..................................... 27

Sources of Additional Information................... 28

FINDING AND APPLYING FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANTS JOBS AND EVALUATING OFFERS .... 30

Where to Learn About Job Openings ............... 31

Job Search Methods...................................... 32

Applying for a Job ........................................ 40

Job Interview Tips ........................................ 47

Evaluating a Job Offer ................................... 51

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE…HIRING THE BEST...............................1.6

THE INTERVIEW AND SELECTION PROCESS ....... 63

Step 1 ........................................................ 65

Step 2 ........................................................ 68

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Step 3 ........................................................ 78

Step 4 ........................................................ 81

SAMPLE CUSTOMER SERVICE FOCUSED INTERVIEW QUESTIONS .................................. 91

Responsible ................................................. 91

Likeable ...................................................... 95

Believable ................................................... 99

Outgoing ................................................... 102

Unflappable ............................................... 105

INTERVIEWING............................................. 108

Planning.................................................... 108

Confirming/Scheduling Interview.................. 110

Conducting the Interview ............................ 111

Closing ..................................................... 113

Follow Up .................................................. 114

TIPS ON INTERVIEWING ................................ 116

Questions/ Assessment Tools ....................... 116

Interview Questions To Get You Started ........ 118

Supervisor and Manager Competencies ......... 120

Interviewing People With Disabilities ............. 122

Accommodating Persons With Disabilities For An Interview .................................................. 125

Interview Do’s and Don’ts........................... 127

CHECKING REFERENCES ................................ 131

Which References Should I Check? ............... 133

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Tips for Checking References ....................... 135

The Reference Check Questions To Ask ......... 138

Prohibited Questions and Practices ............... 141

RECORDING A PROFILE OF IMPRESSIONS........ 143

Supervisory and Managerial Competencies: ... 145

Building Coalitions/Communication:.............. 146

RECRUITING Medical Assistants ...................... 147

Before Submitting the Vacancy .................... 148

When the Vacancy Announcement is Open .... 151

Once the Certificate is Received ................... 153

After The Selection is Made ......................... 155

ASSESSING YOUR RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PRACTICES .................................................. 157

Policies and Procedures ............................... 157

Recruitment Strategies ............................... 160

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INTRODUCTION

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all

the information candidates need to apply for their

first Medical Assistants job, or to apply for a better

job.

What you'll find especially helpful are the

worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a

work experience using these outlines. It ensures

that the narrative will follow a logical structure and

reminds you not to leave out the most important

points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your

application into a much stronger document, be

much better prepared and a step ahead for the

next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It

helps you get your career organized in a tidy,

presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to

produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that

convey your skills persuasively and attractively in

your application packets.

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After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for

interviews, or you will be after you conducted the

practice sessions where someone sits and asks you

potential questions. It makes you think on your

feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping

you stay away from vague and long-winded

answers and you will be finally able to connect with

prospective employers, including the one that will

actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job

search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but

obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice

suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it

deliberately challenges conventional job search

wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired

suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with

common sense, logic, and good business acumen

and consistency?" Think that "the most qualified

candidate gets the job?" Think again! Time and

again it is proven that finding a job is a highly

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