When you come across a candidate with a promising profile, you probably do a little more outside research before calling them for an interview, right?
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?
How much could you communicate with only five words?
Probably more than you think.
Consider the Pixar movie “Wall-E.” Its lead character, a scrappy robot, only spoke a handful of words but still conveyed enough messages and emotions to lead a full-length film that earned an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and a Golden Globe for Best Animated Film.
But how did he do this while uttering only a handful of words and sounds?
Nonverbal communication.
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.
