Monster.com, the leader in online job search has a robust but simple salary estimator tool. This salary tool helps complete the circle of online job research for Monster.com giving its users a reason to come back again and again. Monster.com's online salary tool aslo gives their users a reason to use Monster.com as their only one-stop career research and application tool.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
PayScale.com Salary Comparison
PayScale.com is another website that offers great salary comparison tools. You can start the tool as a Job Seeker, Job Candidate, Emloyee or as a Business.
This free salary comparison tool is available to anyone wishing to research their given career field and find out where their pay scale is in relation to others in their situation. PayScale.com will give you detailed graphs and reports based on the information you provide them giving you a full scale picture of your potential or current salary.
This free salary comparison tool is available to anyone wishing to research their given career field and find out where their pay scale is in relation to others in their situation. PayScale.com will give you detailed graphs and reports based on the information you provide them giving you a full scale picture of your potential or current salary.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Salary.com Salary Tools
Salary.com has alot of helpful tools that are meant to give you an idea of what kinda of salary you can make in any given career. You can enter your job title and your zip code and salary.com will return the relevant salary information based on your location and career field. In today's economy its a good idea to research the career you are interested in joining by making sure the salary meets your lifestyle or the lifestyle you want to have. Learning the salary ranges with salary.com's salary tools of the various industries can help prevent a dead end career, going back to school and even financial hardships in the future.
Fastest Growing Nursing Career: Registered Nurse (RN)
RNs make up the largest portion of jobs in healthcare. About sixty percent of the over two and a half million jobs are in a hospital setting. Others work in skilled nursing facilities usually with a role of manager or supervisor, in home health care, or doctors’ offices. There are other job opportunities for Registered Nurses such as occupational health, addition recovery services, hospice care, and holistic medicine.
Specialization
Working in a hospital gives a RN the chance to specialize in a particular field of medicine just as a doctor would. These opportunities include, but are not limited to:
- Emergency or trauma, transplant
- Rehabilitation, radiology
- Psychiatric-mental health
- Perianesthesia
- Critical care
- Ambulatory care
Focusing in the care of a specific disease, genetic disorder, or illness is an option for an RN:
- HIV/AIDS and cancer
- Disabled populations, such as physical, mental, or emotional
- Wound nurses treat patients with openings due to traumatic injury, bedsores, diabetes, amputations, etc.
RNs also specialize in specific physiological areas and the diseases and illnesses associated with them.:
- Urology
- Cardiovascular
- Dermatology
- Gastroenterology
- Gynecology
- Nephrology
- Neuroscience
- Ophthalmic
- Orthopedic
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Respiratory
Another form of specialization a nurse might find interesting is by age population:
- Neonatology - newborns
- Pediatrics - children and adolescents.
- Gerontology and geriatrics - adults and the elderly.
Settings
RNs who specialize may work in hospitals, rehabs, and/or doctors offices. Some registered nurses who chose not to work in typical healthcare settings work in places such as correctional facilities, camps, military, resorts, ships, and schools.
Education
RNs have three different paths to acquire licensure:
- BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) offered by four-year colleges
- ADN (Associate Degree in Nursing)
- Diploma from an approved nursing program
Most nurses obtain their RN from either the Associate or Bachelor Degree programs. The ADN takes two to three years to complete. A BSN usually takes four to five years to complete. There are accelerated programs (12 – 18 months) for those who have a bachelor’s degree in another field.
After completing the education and clinical training requirements, students must pass a national licensing examination known as the NCLEX-RN. Additional training is often needed if a specialized nursing career is to be pursued.
Salaries
Salary for RNs usually ranges from $50,000 to $70,000 depending on experience, work environment, and specializations. Nurses who acquire a managerial position may have the opportunity earn a higher salary similar to the salary of nurses with years of experience.
Job Outlook
Job outlook for RNs is excellent overall. Location and environment determines the amount of employment opportunities a nurse may have. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has determined that employment opportunities for RNs are anticipated to be the fastest growing occupation in the next ten years, including more than a half million jobs. These statistics do not account for the hundreds of thousands of jobs that will become available by those nurses retiring from their careers.
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