The Experience Trap: (Or One Woman's Attempt to Get a Foot in the Proverbial Door in Healthcare)  

Category: Practice Management

By Karen Mauss

When I lost my job at a local non-profit agency in early 2010 during the height of The Great Recession, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do next. I had done many very different jobs in the course of my working life, and as a reflection of that, my résumé looked like a patchwork quilt. Not being twenty-something anymore, I knew I had to make a decision about a field and stick to it. After some months of research and personal inventory, I finally decided upon the business/administrative/information side of healthcare. I had circled around the field now and again, but never truly worked in it.   My background was mostly in medical insurance, with a smattering of durable medical equipment and some medical database software thrown in. So then the fun began: how to get in the door. Everyone wants experience but mine was razor thin and at least five years old...