by John G. Self | Aug 19, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting
We are entering an era in healthcare where mistakes, especially errors in hiring, will become too costly to tolerate. Executives and managers should be held accountable for their track record in hiring. While Human Resources may run the recruiting and employment...
by John G. Self | Aug 14, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting
Recruiting a key executive, outlining client expectations, pushing him or her through new employee orientation, and then hoping for the best. The results are usually mixed and mixed is not an outcome hospitals can afford in this challenging economic R&R...
by John G. Self | Jul 31, 2013 | Career Management, Healthcare, Recruiting
The question is not if, but when and how many. Layoffs. They are inevitable in the new healthcare economy that will be defined over the next five to seven years by the impact of the Affordable Care Act and the inevitable deficit reduction through cuts in...
by John G. Self | Jul 22, 2013 | Career Management, Healthcare, Recruiting
If you are out of work, does that automatically convey that you are a bad employee? No. Is it true that employers are not interested in interviewing, much less hiring, people who have been out of work more than eight months or more? Yes. “Don’t bring me any...
by John G. Self | Jul 8, 2013 | Healthcare, Recruiting
When a major national health services organization acquired a major group purchasing organization (GPO), there was no question that the more than 250 employees who were part of the reduction in force would receive outplacement. The financial mavens raised their...
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...
