Employee Engagement: The First 90 Days
The first 90 days for a new hire are crucial for employee engagement. Candidates join your organization because they’re excited about your opportunity, and a good employee engagement strategy will...
View ArticlePreventing HR Burnout with Recruitment Optimization
In healthcare, extended interviewing and thorough hiring processes are both necessary and inevitable. Unfortunately, their importance doesn’t prevent them from taking a toll on those involved — perhaps...
View ArticleThe Benefits of a Lean Transformation Journey in Healthcare
When it comes to recruiting, more has traditionally been considered better. In other words, the more applicants you attract, the more candidates you interview, the more hires you get. But David Szary...
View ArticleUnderestimating the Value of Reference Checks Will Cost You — Big Time
Reference checking is an important hiring practice. At the minimum, reference checks involve a conversation — traditionally, by phone — between a potential employer and someone who knows and hopefully...
View ArticleLean Recruiting: Changing the Game of Talent Acquisition in Healthcare
High-quality employees are the key to delivering quality patient care, so it’s imperative that healthcare recruiting teams stay on top of open positions and strive to attract the best possible...
View ArticleHealthcareSource Acquires Lean Human Capital
Today, I have the pleasure of announcing some very exciting news: HealthcareSource has acquired Lean Human Capital. Lean Human Capital is a company based out of Plymouth, Michigan that has become the...
View Article4 Best Practices for Hiring Compassionate Caregivers
Compassionate nursing care is linked to higher clinical quality measures and better patient care overall, making it clear that hiring compassionate caregivers is crucial for a healthcare organization’s...
View ArticleWhy Isn’t There a College Degree in Recruiting?
Recruiters have the most important role in the organization. And that is by no means an overstatement. The vast majority of CEOs we work with cite people as their top strategic initiative — putting the...
View ArticlePart Artist, Part Scientist — Are You a Modern Recruiter?
The art of elite recruitment today is dramatically different than yesteryear. Recently, I came across a LinkedIn infographic called The Modern Recruiter: Part Artist, Part Scientist that outlines, with...
View Article7 Sourcing Trends Transforming Healthcare Recruitment
By making an effort to not just stay up-to-date on key sourcing trends, but to stay ahead of them sets healthcare recruitment practitioners up for success. The post 7 Sourcing Trends Transforming...
View ArticleHealthcare HR Week 2017: 5 Recruiting Tips to Help Advance Your Career
In the spirit of Healthcare HR Week, here are five actionable tips from The Recruiter Academy Certified Recruiter (RACR) Program for healthcare recruiters to become more effective and advance their...
View ArticleHealthcare HR Week: 8 Industry Trends to Watch
We review the top trends shaping the healthcare HR & recruiting industry today, from demand forecasting to the candidate experience and optimized sourcing. The post Healthcare HR Week: 8 Industry...
View ArticleWhat Is Recruitment Marketing?
The healthcare recruiting game is changing. It’s no longer about just meeting your most immediate needs — it’s about building a pipeline of qualified candidates so you can find the right talent at the...
View ArticleAre You Having a Talent Emergency? Recruitment Marketing Edition (Infographic)
If you work for a healthcare organization, you’re no stranger to emergencies, including those in the human resources department. You have firsthand experience trying to fill open positions for nurses,...
View ArticleHealthcare Recruiter How-To: 3 Ways to Think More Like a Marketer
Old-school recruiting tactics might not be enough to fill your positions, especially on a timeline that works for your organization. That’s why healthcare recruiters are evolving their responsibilities...
View Article3 Things to Know About Pay-Per-Application Job Ads
Until recently, most online recruiting strategies could be described as “post and pray,” place duration-based job ads on various job boards and hope that you get enough applications to make a hire...
View ArticleRecruitment Marketing’s Role in Delivering Quality Patient Care
Recruiting high-quality candidates for hard-to-fill positions is one of the primary business challenges healthcare organizations face today. The healthcare workforce shortage is widespread and growing,...
View ArticleHow Do You Measure Up? The 4 Key Performance Dimensions of Our Core...
The results of our Core Recruiting Benchmarks Survey consistently show that healthcare recruiters are inadequately prepared to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Take a closer look at each of the four...
View Article5 Tips to Write Healthcare Job Postings Beyond the Job Description
When we’re pressed for time, it’s tempting to cut and paste sections from a job description when writing healthcare job postings. Resist that temptation — job descriptions and job postings are not one...
View Article3 Recruiting Strategies to Attract Millennial Talent to Your Healthcare...
Attracting millennial healthcare talent to your organization requires you to restructure your recruiting strategies to align with candidates’ needs. Learn how to do it with these 3 tips. The post 3...
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