An on-line employment service exclusive to the dental industry has launched a new Website that saves even more time and money in matching dental professionals with employers.
Effective Feb. 1, Dentalworkers.com will offer dental professionals the same services that a large job board, such as Monster.com, provides. These services include free resume posting for prospective dental workers and classified ad placement for employers.
Cathy Price, Dentalworkers.com president, says that while the site offers several new resume and ad-managing features, it remains simple to navigate.
"We've kept the 'home town' feel by dedicating the site only to dentistry and keeping the navigation on the site easy to use" Price says. "Yet easy does not mean simple. The renewed site uses the most cutting edge technology to make the recruiting of dentists, hygienists, assistants and office managers efficient and cost effective."
New features for employers include "ad history" and "my favorites." Employers also can select by-pass email options, track activity on their job ads, monitor their own log activity, renew job ads automatically and archive previous job ads. Resumes can be sorted to reflect experience level, relocation status and other criteria.
Another service employers find valuable is the automatic sorting of workers' resumes by geographic area and job title. Dentalworkers.com then delivers the resumes by email to each employer. The resumes can be easily scanned, saved or deleted by the employer after using the "resume quick search" feature, which allows them to easily decide if a resume is acceptable.
The "resume quick search" sorts resumes by job title, work status, years of experience, whether the worker is left or right handed, VISA status and license status for dentists and hygienists. Employers also can receive resumes for externs from local schools in their area.
Prospective workers will be able to manage multiple resumes instead of the single resume that is currently offered to them. They also can track job ads and responses in their "my favorites" folder as well as access a private availability calendar.
Workers can then respond to temporary service offers from employers or staffing agencies for free. They also will have the option to place their resumes as "premier placement," "bold," or "confidential" and write cover letters to employers.
New services offered to students include the placement of special externship resumes. They also can review externship opportunities from employers. While in school, Dentalworkers.com will ease the process of finding students externships in their geographic areas by delivering information on potential positions by email.
As an extra friendly feature for all Dentalworkers.com users, email addresses will take the place of login names. Passwords will be managed in the user's "my preferences"option.
Price says employers who use Dentalworkers.com usually need to interview fewer candidates before finding the right person to fill a position than if they had placed a newspaper ad. She says that by shortening the time it takes to search for a worker, a dental office can maintain productivity and realize significant savings.
"Every time a hygienist's chair is vacant, there is no production to be had," Price says. "If there is not an efficient front desk, the books are not being filled with patients. If there is not an efficient assistant helping the dentists, the operatory takes more time to turn over and do the procedures, which also hinders production."
Workers also find that Dentalworkers.com simplifies their job search.
"Rami Nabors, a newly hired dental hygienist in Lakeland, Fla., says Dentalworkers.com exceeded her expectations.
"It's hard finding a job when you move from state to state, but Dentalworkers worked great for me, Nabors says. "It really cut down the amount of time it took to find a job!"
Dentalworkers.com currently features more than 8,000 resumes. It serves as the job board for the American Dental Assistants Association, the Dental Assisting National Board, the American Student Dental Association and the American Association of Women Dentists.
