by John G. Self | Jun 23, 2016 | Career Management, Healthcare, Medical Staff Development, Patient Safety, Physician Recruitment, Quality of Care, Recruiting
Today we focus on a troubling fact in healthcare — our values are not where they need to be. If you are a hospital CEO who believes that, at the end of the day, it is all about financial performance, then click the off button now. You will not like what you...
by John G. Self | Jun 22, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Recruiting
BY NANCY SWAIN, Practice Leader, Career Transitions/Outplacement The days in which a new executive could take their time to learn what he or she needed to know about the company is over. Those blissful weeks or months when you were not really expected to deliver any...
by John G. Self | Jun 6, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Healthcare, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Recruiting
I am lucky in life and I have been especially lucky in my career. Well, maybe the word luck is not the best stand-alone explanation. I have been lucky and fortunate. Over the years I have worked for some interesting and talented people in the fields of news,...
by John G. Self | May 22, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Recruiting
Candidates for executive leadership all have a couple of things in common. They don’t like negative questions and they would prefer you not ask their references anything that might detract from their ability to be “sainted” in the course of winning the job. Most...
by John G. Self | May 17, 2016 | Career Management, Diversity, Executive Leadership, Healthcare, Millennials, Podcast, Recruiting
Listen to SelfPerspective on iTunes or use the player at the bottom of this post. Fred Hobby is a national thought leader on the subject of diversity in healthcare management. The former President of the Institute for Diversity for Healthcare Management, Mr. Hobby...
by John G. Self | May 4, 2016 | Career Management, Career Transition/Outplacement, Early Careerists, Military Career Transition, Millennials, Recruiting
Candidates and employers have something in common. Neither is particularly good at interviewing. For candidates that is especially so since most go through the job change process between seven and 12 times during a 40 to 45 years career, according to the best...