All Posts by Riia O'Donnell
Optimizing Healthcare Job Postings for Google
SEO is a powerful tool to getting your job postings seen by more people. Good keywords can mean the difference between showing up at the top of the results, or tucked away on page 13. Let’s talk about how to select the best search terms to drive the most clicks and engagement for your job ads.
Read moreRethink Job Board Ads to Get Better Results
With an upturn in resignations and an ongoing staff shortage, recruiting and maintaining talented employees has never been more important. That’s why your job ads need to drive results, rather than fall flat. Here are a few tips for making your ads stand out when posting to job boards.
Read moreOvercoming Unconscious Bias in Healthcare Recruitment
Whether we admit to them or not, we all carry biases. These unconscious biases may be undermining your hiring efforts by limiting your candidate pool and overall candidate quality. As healthcare recruiters, we must seek to remove these unconscious biases to ensure the best possible healthcare for our communities.
Read moreBuilding a Talent Pool in a Tight Market
Even at best, healthcare recruiting can be a challenge. Given the ongoing pandemic and staffing shortage, a streamlined recruiting process and great reputation in the market are also necessary. Here are a few creative solutions on how you can best expand your talent pool as a recruiter.
Read moreHow Stay Interviews Help Retain Top Talent
Many companies and HR professionals have heard of exit interview – but what about stay interviews? Instead of conducting an interview after it all goes wrong, why not be proactive and gauge your employee’s levels of interest and engagement while they still work with you? This is the purpose of a stay interview
Read moreRésumé Red Flags: Post-Pandemic
A bad application will make for a bad employee and soon after, the need to rehire. Circumvent this nasty cycle by watching for résumé red flags up front and hiring only the best candidates.
Read moreJob descriptions: Updating for Success in Today’s Market
A job description is a blueprint for every aspect of the hiring process. Keeping this description up-to-date is integral to finding and retaining top talent in your field, so employers must stay vigilant and always keep their postings fresh and relevant.
Read moreRecruiting Gen Z in Healthcare
To many recruiters, the ever-growing generation gap and differences in communication styles is proving difficult. So if you’re looking to headhunt for top talent among the youth, it is important to know what Gen-Z values.
Read moreWhy Behavioral Interview Questions Provide More Insight for Healthcare Hiring
Pointed behavioral questions are a better gauge of candidate’s thought processes than simple yes/no questions. Here are a few more specific questions one might consider asking when interviewing prospective employees.
Read moreHow to Create a More Compelling Job Posting
When marketing a new job ad, ask yourself the following question: if I were a job-seeker, would I respond to this ad? If your answer was no, then you should be reading this article to find out why.
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