The Hire Connection: Medical Recruiting Tips

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Using Your Employees To Help You Recruit

Recruitment is the lifeblood of any hospital or company. Without a successful recruitment strategy, the company may struggle to find high-quality team members. Without these great team members, the quality of care they deliver can suffer and, consequently, so can their reputation and their bottom line.

In our experience as a physician recruiting company, we have learned a great deal about what a good recruitment strategy needs. In order to achieve a successful recruitment strategy, you have to have great cooperation and cohesion between several different components. Your employees make up one of these key components, but many companies fail to maximize their current team members when devising their recruitment strategies. This week, the team at The Hire Connection, LLC is here to help you brainstorm some ways to get your current team members involved in the recruiting process.

1. Use Your Team To Create A Positive Job Atmosphere.

As the leader of your healthcare facility, it is up to you to set the tone of your corporate culture. However, it is up to your team to follow through and actually create the culture by following your example. If you get your whole team on board, creating an outstanding company culture is easy - and it be incredibly helpful when the time comes to attract potential candidates to your open position. After all, everyone wants to work in a great atmosphere!

2. Let Your Team Spread The Word That You're Hiring.

How are you marketing your open position? If you're doing it right, you should have your opportunity advertised everywhere - snail mail, phone calls, websites, social media, and word of mouth. Word of mouth is a particularly powerful way of spreading a message, because you can always count on the fact that people will talk to one another. Tell your employees when you have an open position, and let them spread the word. If you have created a great healthcare atmosphere, they will probably want to tell everyone about the job opening!

3. Get Their Opinions During The Hiring Process.

As the CEO of your hospital, you may not be intimately acquainted with the day-to-day routine your employees follow. How can you be sure if your new hire will fit in with the existing culture? Have a few trusted team members sit in on your interviews, and let them offer their insights on how well the potential candidates will fit. If, on the other hand, you are looking for a go-getter candidate who will break the rest of the team free from their current routine, your current employees can help you recognize the right candidates for the job.

Your Employees Can Be A Great Help, But Don't Let Your Recruitment Strategy Stop There!

As we stated earlier, a successful recruitment strategy requires the careful cohesion of several different parts. In addition to involving your employees, you should be advertising your opportunities online, in the mail, at career fairs, and more. Hiring a professional medical recruiting company to help you with this process can make a world of difference! The Hire Connection has successfully provided physician job recruiting and job placement services to hospitals all over the country. If you would like help recruiting your next physician, give us a call at 866-661-4473.

The Hire Connection Team

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Thursday, August 27, 2015

7 Professional Recruiting Tips

Recruiting new physicians to join your staff is no small task. As we mentioned earlier this week, experts estimate that between recruitment and training expenses, hiring a new physician for your practice can cost anywhere from $30,000-$200,000. With so many dollars involved, it is crucial that you make sure you are attracting the right candidates! The Hire Connection is here to help with these tried-and-true professional recruiting tips.

Professional Recruiting Tips

1. Get Your Current Team Involved.
Interviewing potential candidates can be time-consuming. You can save yourself a great deal of time and energy by screening potential candidates and only interviewing those with legitimate hiring potential. No one knows your facility's value and culture like your current physicians and other staff members, so let them use their knowledge to help you. Ask your team if they know anyone who might be a good fit for your facility and would be interested in looking for a new opportunity, and interview those candidates first.

2. Recruit The Spouses, Too.
Our spouses have a huge impact on our major life decisions, and your candidates are no exception. If a candidate's spouse is majorly supportive of your offer, he/she will be much more likely to consider your position. In the same vein, a candidate will be less likely to consider your offer if his/her spouse is unsupportive. By dedicating some of your recruitment efforts to the spouses and the families, you will likely see much better results.

3. Offer Enticing Signing Bonuses.
The physician shortage is already upon us, and experts estimate that it is only going to get worse over the next decade. With so many open positions and so (relatively) few physicians, recruiters are having to work extra hard to attract the best candidates for their opportunities. Offering a generous signing bonus is a great way to make your opportunity stand out from your competition.

4. Design A Generous Compensation Package.
With so many different positions to choose from, physicians today can be extra choosy about which offers they accept. If you want to attract (and retain) high-quality physicians, you have to have a generous compensation package. Even if you need to keep their annual salary in line with your competitors would offer, you can still make your compensation package stand out by offering great benefits, such as flexible work weeks, holiday bonuses, extended vacation time, and/or a great call schedule.

5. Advertise Your Opportunity Everywhere.
If you want to attract a large pool of candidates to choose from, you have to first get word about your opportunity out to a large pool of job-seekers. At our medical recruiting company, we use all forms of communication to market our clients' opportunities, including print advertising, email, text messages, voice calls, social media, websites, and more. By incorporating multiple methods into your advertising strategy, you will be able to reach a wider demographic.

6. Check Your Candidates' References.
This tip might fade more into the actual hiring process than the initial recruiting process, but its importance cannot be overstated. During the interview process, you only have a set amount of time to get to know your potential candidates. What you do (or do not) learn about them during that time can impact your healthcare facility for months or years to come, so it's important to make the most out of interviewing time you have. Your candidates' references can offer valuable information about the caliber of people and physicians they are.

7. Be Flexible On Your Start Date.
Physicians looking for new opportunities face any number of unique challenges. If they are married, for example, they will have to move their families and get everyone settled into the new city before they start working for your hospital. As a result, they may have limited flexibility on their available start dates. You don't want to risk losing the right physician for your opportunity simply because you were unwilling to compromise on your start date.

Overwhelmed? You Don't Have To Do This On Your Own!

Recruiting physicians can be a challenge, and many in-house recruiters get overwhelmed by the challenges facing them. If you think you would like help with your medical recruiting efforts or would simply like more information about how an professional medical recruiting company can help you, contact The Hire Connection. Our team of experienced medical recruiting experts would be happy to help you!

The Hire Connection Team

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

The Jizzle Wizzle Difference

When it comes to hiring the right physicians for your healthcare facility, you want to be sure you find the best of the best. The Hire Connection is the medical recruiting company that you need to help you find the right person for your opportunity.

We carefully research each opportunity, each healthcare facility, and each candidate to ensure that we match the right people with the right practices. We are fortunate to have developed a unique company culture that has greatly contributed to our success in the medical recruiting field. Here is a sneak peek at the top ten secrets that have contributed to our success.

THC's Secrets To Success:

10. Whether you are trying to sell an idea to your spouse or recruiting, be sure to express genuine interest in the person and their thought processes. Be attentive, don't interrupt, and let them speak freely.

9. Life is not about you - it's about the other person. When you connect, your odds of capturing a candidate and selling ideas to the staff and to your spouse go through the roof.

8. The position may be great and it may satisfy the candidate professionally, but if they never fully integrate into your culture they will never truly feel as if they are a part of it.

7. Outline your vision and mission and make the candidate feel like he or she will be an integral part of the plan.

6. Out of understandable desperation, warning signs are overlooked or ignored, resulting in non-optimal hires when, with a little more effort, a better fit could have been found.

5. If you want to get to the top, you have to take everyone with you. Most recruitment efforts are won or lost before you speak to your first candidate.

4. Studies have proven over and over that it takes five positive employees to compensate for one negative force or employee. Start showing the love and be positive at all times.

3. Take every decision, hold it up to the light of integrity, and ask yourself: does it allow you to lay your head down at night and know, without question, it wasn't for personal gain but for the good of the company, staff, and client?

2. The rigors of building a business are grueling, stressing, and trying, and without levity in the workplace you will alienate the most valuable asset you possess - your staff. When your place is no fun, your staff will go find the fun factor elsewhere.

1. If you spend your entire life helping people up the ladder of life, you will experience all of the rewards life has for you.

THC Can Help Bring Your Healthcare Facility To The Next Level!

Our hope is that you will be able to take these little words of wisdom and apply them to your practices so you can continue to improve the culture of your healthcare facility. The next time you find yourself looking to hire a healthcare professional, we hope you'll keep us in mind as your trusted recruiting experts. We look forward to working with you!

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