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[/custom_frame_center]As a healthcare employer, you could look at your entire organization in relative human anatomical terms. Your healthcare facility is the body and your employees are the lifeblood. The management engineers are the brain and heart to steer the entire organization. On occasion, you need an infusion of “fresh blood” – new employee recruitment. To keep the system running well, hiring new employees is of paramount importance.
Working with a healthcare recruiting search firm provides an advantage in adding valuable new employees. Many firms are part of national organizations that require standards to main the integrity of recruiters. For example, the National Association of Physician Recruiters (NAPR) has “10 Commandments” that include honoring contractual agreements, ongoing communication between firm and candidate, and stringent screening practices.
Other benefits of working with a search firm include:
- Nation-wide marketing – Wide-reaching marketing methods generate candidate flow for positions that don’t naturally attract attention. Recruiters know the marketplace and they keep CVs for many qualified candidates who may not be actively seeking new employment.
- Their reputation (and paycheck) is on the line – The recruiter plays professional employment matchmaker, and that role comes with a cost. A recruiter’s job is to find the best candidate for a given position. Future business from an employer, a good reputation and a paycheck depend on a recruiter’s willingness to grow relationships and make educated choices. When you work with a recruiter, you know he or she has done the homework to help you hire employees who can hit the ground running.
- A more efficient process – A recruiter has the expertise to reduce the time it takes to fill a position. Knowing their employers and prospective candidates well makes for better matches and higher retention. Recruiting, interviewing and hiring processes that are handled through a recruiter save a facility substantial time and money. A yearly budget can be severely affected by excessive costs incurred by replacing lost employees. A recruiter relieves the marketing, advertising, and many of the HR duties (e.g. – resume culling, background checks and interviewing) that take up valuable and costly time.
- Beginning with the end in mind – While employers have many, many tasks on their plate, recruiting is all firms do. While there are many facets to a recruiter’s job, their singular focus is hiring. They want to your “body” to stay running in the best of health. Day after day, they keep the end in mind – fitting the best employees in the best jobs.
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By Melissa Baysinger
