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Lab Recruiting Resources & Tips
New CLIA Guidance Requires Verification of Experience for Lab Roles
In a move signaling stricter enforcement of personnel qualification standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has clarified how laboratories must document education, training, and experience for CLIA-designated roles.
2025 Medical Laboratory Professionals Wage & Morale Report
The results of Lighthouse Lab Services’ fourth annual Wage and Morale Survey of Medical Laboratory Professionals reveal that, five years after the seismic disruptions of the pandemic, the industry may finally be returning to its baseline norms.
9 Must-Have Skills for Your Lab Technician Resume
By: Andrei Kurtuy, guest contributor, Co-Founder & CCO of Novoresume.com For any career, you need a strong resume to help get your foot in the door and lab technicians are no exception. But as someone in the Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) field,...
Lab Jobs & Candidate Resources
Medical Laboratory Candidate Corner: December 2025
At Lighthouse Lab Services, our Recruiting and Lab Director teams specialize in maintaining a roster of dozens of highly qualified candidates across all specialties and spectrums of the medical laboratory industry. From CLIA Lab Directors to bench-level scientists of...
New CLIA Guidance Requires Verification of Experience for Lab Roles
In a move signaling stricter enforcement of personnel qualification standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has clarified how laboratories must document education, training, and experience for CLIA-designated roles.
2025 Medical Laboratory Professionals Wage & Morale Report
The results of Lighthouse Lab Services’ fourth annual Wage and Morale Survey of Medical Laboratory Professionals reveal that, five years after the seismic disruptions of the pandemic, the industry may finally be returning to its baseline norms.
Lab Director News & Updates
New CLIA Guidance Requires Verification of Experience for Lab Roles
In a move signaling stricter enforcement of personnel qualification standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has clarified how laboratories must document education, training, and experience for CLIA-designated roles.
2025 Medical Laboratory Professionals Wage & Morale Report
The results of Lighthouse Lab Services’ fourth annual Wage and Morale Survey of Medical Laboratory Professionals reveal that, five years after the seismic disruptions of the pandemic, the industry may finally be returning to its baseline norms.
Why Understanding Lab Director State Requirements is Crucial for Clinical Labs
It’s no secret clinical laboratories and pathology groups are currently experiencing a shortage of qualified candidates to staff their facilities and maintain business as usual. While this environment can be attributed to a multitude of factors ranging from the Great...
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