Healthcare is one of the most rewarding careers that there is, however, it requires a very particular kind of person.
Finding someone who is dedicated, hardworking, and compassionate is a tall order. This article will explore some of the ways you can attract the very best employees to your healthcare business.
Have A Great Benefits Package
Having additional benefits to their salary is a great way to attract a larger range of applicants. The more applicants you have, the more talent you have to choose from.
Benefits could include, gym membership, travel or relocation packages, holiday and sick pay entitlement, and health care. Solutions like flex cards are a great way to offer dental and health packages easily.
Progression Opportunities
Driven people want to work for companies where they know in the long term, they will be able to advance their career, improve their skills, and potentially achieve a larger salary!
With this in mind, you should mention progression opportunities within your recruitment materials, and talk about them at interviews.
This is also going to attract employees who want to stay with a company long term and build their careers around your business.
Recruitment Avenues
You want to attract a wide range of applicants and then narrow down the applicants to the very best candidates.
In order to achieve this, you should cast your net wide. Post on jobs boards, advertise internally, offer a referral scheme to your current employees, and even try recruitment agencies.
If you have some spare time on your hands, you could even go head hunting on sites like Indeed.
The idea is to find as many top candidates as possible, then narrow them down to the very best via your interview process.
Reasonable Wages
This sounds like a ‘no brainer’ but if you want good staff, offer good wages. It will deter underqualified people from applying and attract people who feel they deserve that level of salary due to their skills and experience.
Freedom
Offering some level of flexibility is a very attractive benefit to employees now. This is largely because many people are working around young families, and no longer do women and men have to choose between a career or children when they can have it all.
Offering a flexi-time scheme where they have the option to start an hour earlier or work through lunch to finish an hour earlier is appealing to many people.
In addition to this, offering flexible holiday schedules and some remote working time is also attractive to potential employees.
Open Communication
Having a channel of open communication is very attractive to candidates, it gives the impression of an open and cooperative workplace where their opinions will be valid, so with this in mind, encourage potential employees to ask questions and give suggestions.
Summary
By doing these things, you are likely to gain a reputation as a great place to work, which will, in turn, encourage more top-level applicants for future job roles.
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