ADHA Launches New Online Job Search Service

Chicago—May 1, 2008—The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) is pleased to announce that on May 8, 2008, the association will launch its new interactive job board, the ADHA Career Center. With its focus on a wide range of dental hygiene positions including clinical, education, corporate, etc, the ADHA Career Center offers the dental hygiene profession at large an easy-to-use and highly targeted resource for online employment connections.

“We’re very excited about the launch of the ADHA Career Center; we know how critical it is for dental employers to attract first-rate talent with a minimum expenditure of time and resources,” said Jean Connor, RDH, ADHA President. “And it’s important for ADHA to be a major career resource to help enable smooth career transitions for dental hygienists seeking jobs.”

Both association members and non-members can use the ADHA Career Center to seek potential career matches. Employers can post jobs, search for qualified candidates based on specific job criteria, and create an online resume agent to email qualified candidates daily. They also benefit from online reporting which provides job activity statistics.

For job seekers, the ADHA Career Center is a free service which provides access to a variety of job postings in the dental hygiene industry. In addition to posting their resumes, job seekers can browse available jobs based on personalized criteria and save those jobs for later review if they choose. Job seekers can also create a search agent to provide email notifications of jobs that match their criteria. The ADHA Career Center can be found at http://careers.adha.org.

ADHA is the largest national organization representing the professional interests of more than 150,000 dental hygienists across the country. Dental hygienists are preventive oral health professionals, licensed in dental hygiene, who provide educational, clinical and therapeutic services that support total health through the promotion of optimal oral health. For more information about ADHA, dental hygiene or the link between oral health and general health, visit ADHA at http://www.adha.org.

ADHA developed the ADHA Career Center in partnership with Boxwood Technology, Inc., the leading provider of career center services for the association industry, and the only such provider endorsed by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). In addition to hosting full-featured online career centers, Boxwood also provides technical support, customer service, accounting, content management and ongoing product development. For more information about Boxwood’s products and services, visit www.boxwoodtech.com or call 800-331-2177.

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