As you probably know, I’ve been around the block a time or two. I have been in the health care staffing industry for a long time and I have garnered my share of wisdom along… Read More »Health Care Staffing: The Top 5 Reasons for Making a Job Change
Recruit Continuously. Look for great employees while you are out to dinner, at the bank, at the hospital, or at a local hotel. If you find someone you think you’d like to have work for you, give them your card and ask them to give you a call if they are ever interested in making a move. This is a particularly successful with practice. Everyone is a potential candidate!
As the president of a health care executive search firm I have been involved in literally thousands of job searches and placements during my career. Most people understand the role of an executive recruiter. We do not find jobs for people, we find people for jobs.
Micro-managing is a vital part of an employer’s job. An employee’s work environment is not a popularity contest. It’s about successfully fulfilling the ongoing tasks at hand in the way in which you as the employer sees fit.
Some people work better if they are micro-managed and are held accountable all day long. Other’s do not need as much hand holding but nonetheless, micro-managing assures you that a job is getting done the way that you want it done.
It’s probably the most uncomfortable moment during an interview. It’s the exact moment when an employer knows that the candidate is not the right fit, for whatever reason. For most employers that moment can be within the first 5 minutes of an interview.
Picking people…………. is almost as hard as firing people. Your an employer and you have narrowed your search down to 2 outstanding candidates. Who do you pick? Picking people is one of the most difficult… Read More »Picking People
Everyone of your employees goes on interviews : Your most loyal employee has either had an interview or is interviewing- on company time-believe me. Unless you are self employed, I am sure that you too are interviewing at times. When one of your employees has a doctors appointment or needs to see a dentist, they are probably interviewing elsewhere. Am I being cynical? Are you being naive?
So what does all this mean to you, dear reader? It means that the senior housing industry is growing exponentially and will need the services that can only be provided by humans. The internet, high tech gadgets, computers, and digital is constantly being promoted as the next “big thing” to our youth dominated culture.
But nothing will ever replace the care given by humans to our loved ones.
As a healthcare recruiter I am always fascinated by interview questions that my healthcare clients might ask while interviewing my candidates.
One of the best interview questions that an employer can ask is: “What book or books are you currently reading.”
Why?
After an interview I usually follow up with both the employer and the candidate to debrief and find out how the interview went. My first question is usually to ask how long the interview went. Obviously if the interview was less than 10 minutes long than chances are great that the interview was a disaster.