As you continue to experience the effects of the pandemic, you might have recruitment on hold, a shift in open positions, smaller staff or you might even start getting back to normal.
Megan Trippi
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In some areas of the country, there has been a surge in health care staffing, while in other areas, positions have been furloughed or recruitment of certain specialties has been placed on hold.
Regardless which situation your organization is experiencing, quality candidates are searching for available jobs, and your job posting often serves as the first impression of those openings.
When you post a job, you expect interested candidates to apply. But, can they find your job posting, and does it catch their eye or compel them to click?
No two facilities are alike. In speaking with recruiters and medical professionals at various health care organizations, we also understand the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted each in different ways.
Through all this, we have found one constant: Whether recruitment is stalled, staff is furloughed, there has been a surge in staffing or responsibilities have remained consistent, there are still ways to support your community and the physicians and nurses on the front lines.
Finding the best candidates to fill certain specialty needs can already be a challenge, and those challenges might be magnified during a medical crisis. Some specialties are harder to recruit than others; it helps to identify those – along with specialties that are most in demand – so you can build your recruitment strategy and prioritize your search and resources if you have immediate needs, if recruitment is stalled or if you need to be ready to increase recruitment efforts as day-to-day responsibilities return to some form of normal.
PracticeLink develops a Physician Recruitment Index with information gathered quarterly by the PracticeLink system based on supply and demand of specialty jobs and specialists. The more jobs per candidate in the system, the more difficult recruiters may find the search for those specialties.
