by John G. Self | Jul 3, 2013 | Career Management, Healthcare, Recruiting
The critical component of an outplacement session is when the candidate comes face-to-face with the power that is their value proposition. This includes experience, skills and quantifiable accomplishments and the realization of who they really are, what they are good...
by John G. Self | Jul 1, 2013 | Healthcare
Like everything else in healthcare, the outplacement industry is changing. The services they offer are being scaled back based on what health systems and hospitals are willing to spend. The timing couldn’t be worse. With the arrival of the Patient Protection and...
by John G. Self | Jun 28, 2013 | Healthcare, Stories
Editor’s Note: John G. Self has been traveling extensively for the past month. He is taking today off. The following blog appeared of March 9, 2009. Mr. Self was in Ann Arbor for a lecture to the healthcare management graduate students at the University of...
by John G. Self | Jun 21, 2013 | Healthcare, Leadership
For some executives, profits are the be all, end all. That is the reason you are in business, they emphatically argue, to make profits. Nothing else matters. Pardon me, but that is a large pile of El Toro Poo Poo, especially the “nothing else matters part.” In...
by John G. Self | Jun 17, 2013 | Healthcare
Once, having a master’s degree in healthcare administration was the golden ticket to a guaranteed job. Not anymore. A proliferation of graduate schools, some great, and more than a few that should be closed for failing to provide the quality education an indebted...
by John G. Self | Jun 14, 2013 | Healthcare
Virtually everyone who goes into healthcare does so based on some variation of this theme – to help people, to make a positive contribution to mankind. Noble aspirations, each and every one. During my 35 years in healthcare I have come to understand that what...
