The Hire Connection: Shrink Recruitment Costs With This One Simple Strategy

The cost of recruiting and training new employees takes up a significant portion of the budget in every healthcare facility. In order to provide quality service that keeps your patients coming back, you have to have outstanding healthcare providers on staff. Since having great employees is essential, it is easy to see why so much time and resources are dedicated to these important tasks.

Though they understand that these tasks require a great deal of investment, most hospital CEOs are (understandably) always looking for ways to make the processes more affordable. As an all-inclusive medical recruiting company, The Hire Connection has devised many strategies to help you keep costs down. This week, we are here to shed some light on a particularly useful way of keeping recruiting costs down.

Cut Recruiting Costs By RETAINING The Employees You Already Have

It may sound counter-intuitive, but one of the best ways to reduce recruiting costs is to retain the employees you already have. Think about it: your current physicians, nurses, and medical staff already understand your company's culture and values. You don't have to continually invest time training them, because they are already comfortable in their roles and they know what is expected of them.

Here are a few strategies you can use to retain the great employees you already have:

1. Pay Them Well
What is the primary (and, in many cases, only) reason people have jobs? People work so they can earn money to support their families and their lifestyles. Offering a competitive benefits package to your employees will make them more likely to stay with your company. Opportunities for growth, advancement, and accompanying salary increases, and bonuses are also important.

2. Show How Much You Appreciate Them
Money is an powerful motivating factor, but there is another equally important motivator: praise. Employees who are praised for their efforts (especially in a public setting) are more likely to continue to push themselves to perform well. Many employers make the mistake of only commenting on their employees' performance when they need to offer criticism, but this can severely hurt retention rates.

3. Encourage Employee Feedback

One of the best ways to improve your hospital's overall performance is to listen to the input provided by your physicians, your nurses, and your medical staff. These individuals are the ones walking the floors every day, the ones who know the ins and outs of your company's operating procedures, the ones who have an up close and personal opportunity to identify room for improvement. Employees who feel like their insights and opinions are appreciated and validated are more likely to stay with their facility.

4. Offer Training
Good employees are always looking for opportunities to grow and better themselves as workers and as individuals. Providing continuing education classes, industry related training, and even personal development opportunities can be a great way to improve employee satisfaction and make them more likely to stay.

5. Make Requirements And Expectations Clear
It may sound surprising, but one of the biggest reasons employees leave is because they felt like they did not know what was expected of them and their roles within the company. One way to improve retention is to make sure your employees clearly understand their responsibilities and their opportunities for increased earning potential.

6. Be Flexible
While some employers like to think that their employees are solely focused on their jobs, the truth remains that every physician, every nurse, and every other staff member has a life outside of their position. Weddings, funerals, sick children, doctor visits... there is an endless list of events that can pull people away from work for a day. Offering a flexible work schedule that accommodates these types of needs can be a great way to motivate your employees to stay.

7. Hire The Right People
Last but certainly not least, one of the best ways to improve your retention rates is to hire the right people. Finding individuals who will embrace their new roles and your company's culture is absolutely essential. If you hire the right people initially, people who wills stay with your facility for years to come, the amount of money you will have to spend recruiting and training future employees may be drastically reduced.

The Hire Connection, LLC can help you find the right physicians and nurses. Our all-inclusive pricing approach allows you to keep costs down and avoid surprise expenses as we find the best possible candidates for your position. Our goal is to introduce you to new partnerships that will be beneficial and fulfilling to both parties for many years. To learn more about our healthcare recruiting services and how we can help you, give us a call at (866) 661-4473 or visit our website.

The Hire Connection Team