Category: Employee Retention
Eye of the unemployment storm is a great chance to recruit
August 13, 2009
Last Friday’s BLS job report was the eye of the unemployment hurricane. There are many theories about why this unexpected slowing in job loss is happening. I believe the slow can be directly linked to the Trillions of dollars the Obama administration has put into the economy over the past few months. Kudos to them for putting a stop to the bleeding but it is only temporary. Just like the brief calm at the eye of the storm this feels good, but don’t forget that the worst part is yet to come. Many believe we will see a 10% or 10.5% unemployment rate before the situation gets better in 2010. If we are looking at the glass as half full, and this is in fact the eye of the unemployment storm, at least it means it is half way over, right?
- Categories: Employee Attraction, Employee Retention, Uncategorized
Volunteers make healthcare work?
August 10, 2009
CNN’s Dan Rivers looks at Thailand’s health care system where almost a million volunteers play a crucial role.
10 Best Practices for Increasing Hospital Profitability
July 22, 2009
“Hospitals today face many challenges including an economic recession, increases in uninsured care and growing competition for outpatient services. However, there are still many steps hospitals can take to increase their profitability amid these economic conditions.
Industry experts say that hospitals wishing to increase their profitability can focus on two key areas — reducing costs and increasing reimbursement. Here are 10 best practices for increasing hospital profitability by reducing costs and increasing revenue and reimbursement. ”
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Hospitals and how a contemporary approach will help them recruit new talent in the workforce
June 18, 2009
The talent life cycle in hospitals is becoming more and more important for organizations due to the shortage of talent throughout multiple fields in the Healthcare industry. To make a hospital an attractive place to the new talent coming into the workforce, the hospitals need to work on becoming more contemporary as an organization. From this article, I took a a three-pronged approach that will help hospitals recruit this new talent and retain them:
- Categories: Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention
Why do so many companies pay for continuing education?
June 18, 2009
Below is a great brief article pointing out what many of us already know or thought. When you pay for classes, even online courses, people tend to stick around to see it through. There’s a whole host of information out there, but this article is short and to the point. Pay for class, keep your people, save money and headaches by reducing turnover, it may be that simple!
http://www.nber.org/digest/feb03/w9225.html
- Categories: Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Uncategorized
The Power of Healthcare
May 27, 2009
Millions of times each day, and more than 600 million times each year, American’s find themselves unexpectedly in the Hospital for care.
The AHA had an annual meeting–here are 93 videos from the people making a difference every single day. We thank you for your support in keeping America running.
- Categories: Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Uncategorized
Leverage “Best Places to Work in Healthcare”
May 26, 2009
Modern Healthcare is now open for submissions to the “Best place to work in Healthcare program”.
Why would an organization want to do something like this? Possibly for the awesome PR that it generates. Maybe they like to have some cool logos to put in the brochure every month. or maybe.. It is a Major Factor for potential employees when researching employment opportunities. Since it is almost free and hosted by a well known healthcare source, this distinction has relevance as well as clout which is key when attracting top talent to small or large organizations. Use this to leverage top opportunities within your organization to the job seeking public and see your quality of care skyrocket!
- Categories: Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention
Announcing CareerBuilder’s New Healthcare Blog
May 14, 2009
The purpose of this blog is to provide relevant information to healthcare providers about improving perceptions and outcomes through new technology and comprehensive analysis. Many healthcare providers are facing the daunting challenge of maintaining revenues while promoting excellence in the care they provide. Organizations face balancing revenues while continuing to provide the best care possible. CareerBuilder is the leader in human capital solutions and attracts the largest pool of healthcare job seekers allowing us to deliver information about Healthcare talent across the nation. This blog will help organizations succeed and improve their understanding, interactions, and retention of their most important asset; their people.
- Categories: Employee Attraction, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention
Are Travelers and OT the Answer?
May 14, 2009
Recently I stumbled across a June 2007 article by Greta Sherman from TMP Worldwide titled, “Brave Enough to Know the Facts.” Greta goes into detail on the true cost of bringing temporary, or Per Diem, nurses to work for your organization. She found that if you were able to shorten the time to hire on one full time RN by ten days, it would save the company and average of $26,232. Shorten the time to hire by ten days for ten RN’s and you will have an additional 262,320 to the bottom line.
- Categories: Employee Engagement, Employee Retention