How to Use Boolean Searches for Healthcare Recruiting

If you are in the medical staffing field, you know how hard it is to find great physicians and other healthcare professionals. Consider using Boolean searches in Google. You’ll find a whole new group of resumes.

Effective Onboarding in Healthcare

Every company should take the time to create an effective onboarding plan for employees… When an employee starts a new job, she comes in excited and ready to go; there is an energy… New employees are also coming in with their eyes wide open. They are scoping everything out, asking themselves if they like their co-workers, the office/working space, the person who will be training them, and the way in which people communicate. They are quickly forming their own opinions, and it’s up to you to make sure that it’s a good one.

How to Work With Applicant Tracking Systems During Your Job Search

When it comes to working with the applicant tracking system, there can be some aspects that could hinder your chances at getting noticed for a job interview. One of the most common is formatting in your resume. See below for some tips about how to work with an applicant tracking system…

The Job Shadow Interview

The position sounded perfect on paper. The HR director slid a contract across the desk and handed me a pen. The salary was fair, the bonus was enticing, and the hours were exactly what I wanted. And yet, I wasn’t sure I was ready to abandon the comfort of a large hospital system for a relatively new private clinic setting. It was a big leap. I put down the pen and asked, “Can I spend a day on the floor and job shadow?”

Are Your Affairs in Order?

Delivering horrible news never gets easier. The physician pauses with a tense hand on the door, takes a deep breath, and enters the patient’s room. A room full of hope and anticipation is displaced abruptly with fear and sadness. The diagnosis now revealed, and the patient and family step back in disbelief.

We will do everything we can to help you beat this but recommend that you get your affairs in order…

Move to Management or Stay as an Individual Contributor?

The Important Career Question As you progress in your healthcare career, you might explore management opportunities. If most of your career has been in an individual contributor role, making the leap to managing others might seem scary. Leadership opportunities are […]

Better Job Offer? Leave Your Current Position the Right Way

Congratulations! Your hard work and career accomplishments have made you attractive to other employers, and you now have a job offer in hand for a better position. I’m sure you’re proud and excited. However, before you break out the champagne, there’s a little unfinished business – you have to part ways with your current employer.

How to be confident and assertive during job interviews

When it comes to interviews, we’ve all had our moments when we wished we had performed better than we did. What if it didn’t have to be that way – what if we could go into every interview knowing that we performed well and really caught the attention of the employer as a potential candidate to fill the vacancy? For successful interviews, it takes tact and communication to really get the attention of the employer. Interviews are your chance to “sell” your abilities to the employer as to why you are the top candidate of choice.