title: Assessing public health job portals over the internet.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of our study was to search existing public health job websites over the internet and describe the challenges related to finding these job websites.
  
  
  METHODS
  An internet search was conducted using different search engines, including Google, Yahoo and Bing, with several keywords including: Public Health Jobs, Epidemiology Jobs, Biostatistics Jobs, Health Policy and Management Jobs, Community Health Jobs, Health Administration Jobs, Nutrition Jobs, Environmental and Occupational Health Science Jobs, GIS Jobs, and Public Health Informatics Jobs. We recorded the first 20 websites that appeared in the results of each keyword search, thus generating 600 URLs. Duplicate sites and non-functional sites were excluded from this search, allowing analysis of unique sites only.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The initial search resulted in 600 websites of which there were 470 duplicates. More than half of the website categories were ".com" (54%; n = 323) followed by ".gov" (19%; n = 111) and ".edu" 15% (n = 90). Results of our findings showed 194 unique websites resulting from a search of 600 website links. More than half of them had actual public health or its related jobs (56%; n = 108).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need to establish standard occupational classification categories for the public health workforce.
authors: Assistant Dean of Students, Office of Student and Alumni Services and Associate Professor, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, New York, USA ashish.joshi@sph.cuny.edu.
authors: Ashish
authors: A
authors: Joshi
authors: Career and Alumni Services Manager, Office of Student and Alumni Services, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
authors: Attiqa
authors: A
authors: Mirza
authors: Administrative Assistant, Office of Student and Alumni Services, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
authors: Kim
authors: K
authors: McFarlane
authors: Research Assistant, Office of Student and Alumni Services, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
authors: Chioma
authors: C
authors: Amadi
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D020407:Internet; D011634:Public Health; D057386:Search Engine
keywords: career; challenges; internet; jobs; public health