The healthcare sector is historical - meaning it has a backlog of challenges. It’s also huge, so its challenges are vast and ever evolving. As an incredibly important part of the public conversation there are always changes and new developments that require recruiters to adapt and evolve quickly. In a 2015 government report it was anticipated that two million new workers will need to be trained and recruited into the sector between 2012 and 2022. As we approach the end of that time frame, and with new political promises to recruit even more nurses into the NHS, things are ramping up for healthcare recruitment agencies. However, significant challenges remain regarding attrition, onboarding, attraction, rates management, payrolling and software struggles.
Below we lay out some of the ways Access Recruitment CRM is designed to specifically help recruiters place contract and temp workers with ease and efficiency.
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- Recruitment
According to the NHS Staff Survey last year, healthcare recruitment is at a crisis point. Due to Brexit, public sector pay policy, changing legislation and other factors outside of the control of the NHS, the system is struggling. Now is the time to be innovative and experimental, which naturally includes the technology and software that is made available to the healthcare industry. It’s no secret that many of their processes are outdated, slow and inefficient, but thankfully with updated recruitment software healthcare agencies can offer viable solutions.
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- Recruitment
Every industry brings its own specific set of recruitment challenges; however, the healthcare sector is arguably one of the most difficult to recruit for. Changing legislation, patient needs, protocol, high risks and outdated systems all mean that placing candidates into healthcare roles isn’t always a straightforward process. The industry also comes with a historic difficulty to attract and retain skilled workers. According to Health Business, the essential challenge remains ‘getting the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time to meet service and patient needs.’
This leads to enormous pressures on healthcare recruitment agencies, as they try to place a backlog of workers into the healthcare system to meet the demand and need of hospitals and trusts. Below we’ve outlined some of the major difficulties of healthcare recruitment and what you can do to combat them:
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- Recruitment
On November 21st 2019, The Access Group welcomed over 100 customers and prospects from the recruitment sector to Access World, where we discussed everything from the progress that Access has made over the last year in the candidate to cash process, to developments in automation, and the future of candidate engagement.
A particular highlight for us was this panel discussion, moderated by Ann Swain, Global CEO of APSCo. Sat on the panel alongside Ann included Ken Brotherston, Managing Director of TALiNT Partners, Sarah Roebuck, Head of Marketing at Eames Consulting, Ricky Martin, Founder and CEO of Hyper Recruitment Solutions, and Stuart Elliott, CEO and Owner of Elliott Scott HR.
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- Recruitment
At Access World 2019, members of the senior management team at Volcanic inspired the audience with their insights about the present and future of candidate attraction. The Access Group brought Volcanic into the Access family early in 2019, to focus more attention on the candidate acquisition stage in their candidate to cash process.
Robert Wilde, Head of Volcanic, highlighted three key areas that recruiters should be focusing on when trying to get more value out of their candidate experience. He then offered his predictions for the future of recruitment technology and candidate engagement.
We captured everything that Rob had to say and we highly recommend the read!
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- Recruitment
As recruiters we spend all day talking about hiring and retaining talent. We preach it to our clients, discuss it with our candidates, and yet, completely ignore our own advice when it comes to recruitment agencies. Because typically recruitment is an industry with high attrition and fast-moving talent, but once you have all-star recruiters in your business, how do you hold onto them?
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- Recruitment
The importance of personal data has been highlighted thanks to the GDPR. The new regulations mean that every business, particularly recruitment businesses, are reassessing their policies and procedures and changing the way they handle data. This is why at Access Recruitment CRM we’ve updated our legislation and brought in the experts to keep our agencies compliant. The current advice overwhelmingly states that businesses should take a look at the way they handle their data now to assess just what needs to be done. To help break this down, we’ve put together some tips and signposts for when you’re sorting through your data and what you need to be aware of.
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- Recruitment
As we enter a time when the workplace is flooded with millennials, the wants and needs of those millennials become important factors in the higher strategy of companies. One of the biggest wants that come with the territory is progression and growth. In fact, it’s a huge area for all workers and oftentimes the most important contributing factor when deciding to join a business. People want to know that they’re going somewhere. That there’s a path ahead and they’re not stuck in a dead-end job doing the same thing over and over again for the next twenty years. According to a Glassdoor report, 46% of millennial's left their job last year due to a lack of career growth. That’s almost half your workforce walking out the door because they have no opportunity to progress.
But on the flip side, it takes two to make a promotion happen and if you’ve got your sights set on one, here’s a few steps to follow:
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- Recruitment
According to Jobvite, 65% of recruiters cite a lack of skilled candidates in the market the biggest blocker to hiring. They just can’t find the highly skilled individuals needed to do the jobs, and indeed, the UK has been talking about the skills gap for some time now. So, in a market that has become so candidate driven, coupled with rising employment levels, how do you find the highly skilled individuals your clients are looking for?
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- Recruitment
The war for talent isn’t a new one and we’re all familiar with it. Candidates are controlling the market, recruiters are struggling to find skilled workers and HR departments are still tearing their hair out after being tasked with culture, employee engagement and retention, and all on a shoestring budget.
Things are only going to intensify and the struggle between agency recruitment and HR departments needs to inevitably come to an end. At the end of the day, we’re all looking for talent and figuring out how to engage candidates/employees. We’re actually fighting on the same side of the fence and there’s numerous ways your recruitment agency can start working effectively with HR.
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- Recruitment
