Physician Recruiter

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While we live in a digital age dominated by social media, there is still tremendous value in face-to-face networking. As a physician recruiter, what steps can you take to help your candidates as they navigate the ongoing and prevalent networking space that exists in the healthcare industry? Here are some strategies you can use when helping physician candidates network: Educate candidates on the importance of networking There are some physicians who believe once they receive their diploma and finish residency, their time of rubbing shoulders with their peers has come to an end. However, a succe....

 

What’s wrong with a little push? With mounting physician shortages and the expectation of more than 24,000 openings for physicians and surgeons every year through 2032, it’s understandable for job seekers to bask in the canyon of options. Those options, however, are weighted with significant considerations, including location, potential career growth, quality of life, pressure for performance metrics, impact on their family, compensation, advice from mentors, working hours, telemedicine opportunities and a host of other factors. This can make it challenging for physician recruiters....

 

When a physician leaves a job, it doesn’t just add one more tough hiring task to a recruiter’s to-do list; it deprives the organization of services and may even leave patients in a lurch. An early departure from a job is also far from ideal for the physician. Aside from the discouraging prospect of launching another job search so soon, the physician will face building a practice from scratch in a new organization. In a nutshell, if physicians found a better fit from the start, everyone would be much better off. So what can recruiters and their employers do to help residents and fel....

 

As the number one physician resource for 30 years, PracticeLink has peered deeply into the work of physician recruiters and are always impressed at how much your duties go well beyond finding candidates, nurturing recruits and welcoming new hires. The truth is physician recruiters wear a lot of different hats - possibly five or more on any given day. Within the lifespan of shepherding a single candidate from the PracticeLink Job Board to the healthcare organization’s onboarding team, you can easily wear eight to ten hats, or even more. With everything we’ve learned about what physi....

 

Job boards are a great solution and have their place in physician recruitment, but they may not always engage the untapped potential of passive job seekers - those who are not actively searching job postings but who could be enticed if they see an interesting opportunity. PracticeLink PRO Solutions can help you engage those physicians and providers and reach both active and passive candidates effectively. Broaden your candidate funnel PracticeLink PRO Solutions are not just about finding passive candidates; they also help you engage with active job seekers to widen your candidate funnel. Thi....