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Enhancing your organization's elevator pitch

As a recruiter, you’re likely familiar with the concept of an elevator pitch. In fact, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ve been on the receiving end of countless elevator pitches from candidates hoping to be recruited. It’s a brief, condensed overview of their experience, goals and achievements that, when delivered well, makes you want to learn more about them. But when you have a limited window to engage with candidates and compel their interest, what do you say about your health care system? In other words, what’s elevator pitch? Whether it’s a shor....

Alexandra Cappetta

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Refreshing the candidate experience

Prior to the pandemic, health care was already seeing challenges due to the physician shortage, changes in billing and insurance, and other trends within the industry. Then COVID hit in 2020, disrupting the way physicians and nurses treated patients, increasing the demand for some providers while hindering the practice of others and creating a need for innovation in recruitment. With the inability to book travel, meet in person and conduct face-to-face interviews, physician recruiters needed to adapt. Keeping up with technology and finding new ways to connect with candidates is part of ....

Megan Trippi

Employment screening success

Hiring a physician or advanced practice provider is a big decision, and it’s one that needs to be made confidently. That’s why candidate screenings - also known as employment screenings or background checks - aren’t just a requirement for health care professionals, but also an essential step in your recruitment process to ensure you’re well-informed about who you want to bring to your team. Here’s a refresher on some key aspects of employment screenings, what they entail and how to best approach them to ensure success as you get to know prospective hire....

Finding the right answers often takes asking the right questions. With employee referral programs, the right questions can help you understand whether the program is helping you hire quality physicians and build a strong staff or is stagnating and serving no purpose. Whether you’re considering a current program’s effectiveness or still deciding if a new program could benefit your recruitment strategy, answering these four questions can strengthen your referral program: What is the right incentive? Determining the right reward can be a deciding factor between a program that ....

You’ve identified a great candidate. The CV checks all the boxes. They’ve aced the interview process. Then they ask, "Do you have any way to help with my student loans?" Chances are it wouldn’t be the first time you’ve heard that question. According to the American Medical Association, half of medical school graduates report debt exceeding $150,000. Of those, about 25% have over $250,000 in student loan debt. It’s quite the financial burden to shoulder while facing the challenges of residency or fellowship and preparing to enter full-time practice. With student lo....

Drew Terry

Minimize the chance of a breach of contract

You can’t find a lot of information about breach of contract because it is something no one wants to talk about. Who would believe that a professional - such as a physician - would sign an employment agreement, even possibly accept a signing bonus, and then not show up for their first day of employment? Or maybe it’s not that dramatic. Perhaps they start the job and you think everything is going great then suddenly, after one month, your new hire sends you an email or sets up a meeting to tell you they are leaving with very little notice. Do a Google search, and you will find l....

is an idiom often used to describe the process of trying several things to have the best chance at success. Just like successful fishing usually involves more than casting a net, successful recruiting often incorporates multiple sourcing techniques to identify the best candidates. Here are four things to keep in mind when trying to catch your next candidates: Choose the right job board Success is elusive if you’re not searching in the right places. When looking for physicians, consider sites they visit to find career opportunities specifically for them. For example, PracticeLink provide....

Drew Terry

Include images and videos in physcian job descriptions.

Make your physician job description more than words

When you create an online job posting, what is your goal? If it is to give every little detail about the opening, I believe you have missed the mark. The goal of a job posting is to capture, in a split second, the candidate’s attention and have them wanting more. A great example of this is your social media feeds. Have you ever scrolled through your feed, only stopping when you see an image that caught your attention? We are stimulated by visuals. Some of the most popular social media apps are ones that utilize visuals. YouTube is entirely videos. Instagram - photos/videos. TikTok - ....

The longer it pervades our lives, the more evident it becomes that COVID-19 isn’t a threat limited to our physical health. The pandemic has changed everything we know about day-to-day life - unearthing a greater awareness that such immediate and intense shifts to routine and structure impact our mindset. For what feels like the first time, mental health isn’t just relevant to those with pre-existing psychological conditions; the pandemic has proven none of us are exempt from its effects. As the world copes with a new series of burdens and challenges, this month’s Nat....

Alexandra Cappetta

As interviews move to a virtual setting, HCA Healthcare recruiters share tips for video interviews

Video interview tips for physician candidates

As interviews move to virtual platforms, it’s important to know how to best present yourself and how you can help physicians and advanced practice providers make a good impression in a video interview. Recruiters from HCA Healthcare provide tips to share with the physicians and APPs you’re recruiting, which can also benefit you as you conduct interviews. Physician job interviews are shifting temporarily to video platforms as hospital systems and medical practices adapt recruiting processes to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 environment. With exception of international job....

Have you added up how much a physician or advanced practice provider vacancy costs? If not, the numbers might be alarming. Many factors contribute to the high costs of physician and APP vacancies, including search firm/agency costs, recruitment and interview expenses, lost revenue and physician burnout. Recruitment and Interview Expenses There are expenses associated with recruiting, and the longer a position is left open, the more those costs increase. According to the 2019 Benchmarking Report from the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment, nearly two-thirds of o....

Megan Trippi

The value of a seamless, all-in-one recruitment tool

Physician recruiters fill open positions to heal communities every day. It is not always an easy task, and a great deal of responsibility falls on them. Recruitment tools can help ease the burden of those day-to-day tasks, but how do you know what tools provide the best value? Some of the main recruitment activities include posting jobs, sourcing candidates and tracking applicants. There are many tools out there to help perform each of those duties, but it can be difficult to know which will deliver the greatest return on investment of both time and budget. Imagine eliminating the need to manu....

Megan Trippi

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