If the shortage of skilled labor wasn’t enough of a recruitment problem for healthcare providers, a recent CareerBuilder survey reveals that 34% of healthcare workers will be looking for new jobs in 2013 up from 24% in 2012. The reasons that healthcare workers gave for seeking a new position included heavy workloads, few promotion opportunities, inflexible schedules, and general frustration with work/life balance. 48% of Healthcare Professionals are Passive Job Seekers With both retention and recruitment being vital issues to resolve, it’s more important than ever for healthcare providers to streamline their recruitment process and make more informed staffing decisions. The survey also reported that 82% of healthcare professionals would be open to discussing a new job opportunity if it arose. The 48% considered passive candidates – those who are generally satisfied with their jobs but open to new possibilities – are the solution to both the recruitment and retention problems facing healthcare providers. Potential passive candidates reported that their reason for remaining with their current employer included the enjoyment of working with co-workers, location, salary/benefits, flexible shifts, and a general feeling of having satisfying and rewarding work. If that sounds like the ideal employee, it’s [+]

In January’s State of the Union address, President Obama announced the inclusion of $100 million in the upcoming 2014 federal budget for research on a brain mapping project. While the announcement has been received relatively warmly on both sides of the political spectrum, there is some concern due to the federal budget sequester cuts. The overall goal is to enhance neuroscience research by focusing on epilepsy, autism, Alzheimer disease and traumatic brain injuries, and by doing so, it will create more jobs in healthcare facilities nationwide.. The infusion of cash into this scientific branch would be the catalyst for what appears to be a decade’s long project. Bipartisan Support Obama stated, “We can’t afford to miss these opportunities while the rest of the world races ahead. There is this tremendous mystery that is waiting to be unlocked.” A spokesman for House Speaker, John Boehner, R-Ohio, states that the brain mapping project would be “exciting, important research” and that “it would be appropriate for the White House to reprioritize existing research funding into these areas.” Obama is adamant that United States researchers make the inevitable future discoveries in order to reap the economic returns rather than allow any [+]

The numbers are in. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported healthcare leading the nation in job creation the first nine months of 2011. September was a banner month, reports Labor, with healthcare employment taking 42 percent of new jobs created. By year’s end, job creation in healthcare is set to outpace all of 2010 by a third. “With more nurses, therapists and allied health professionals on-boarding at facilities of all types, effectively managing contingent labor, travelers and temporary help will be vital to operations,” said Sue Higgins, Director of Product Development at StayStaffed Technologies, a Florida-based vendor management firm. "Larger healthcare employers are back to hiring and the demand for nurse specialists and therapists with advanced credentials keeps growing." To recruit, hire and process these highly-skilled healthcare jobs candidates, Stay Staffed Technologies provides healthcare employers with a virtual staffing Marketplace.*Loaded with automated features, this Internet-based vendor management marketplace enables the accurate matching of healthcare job candidates with posted job descriptions, promotes easy candidate review, documentation and credentialing, and establishes a foundation on which healthcare employers can build an internal workforce of talented candidates to call on in a moment’s notice.  The Marketplace requires no [+]

After what may have amounted to a two-year lull in hiring, hospital staffing trends are looking up. Analysts with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) expect private and public hospitals to add more than 500,000 healthcare jobs nationwide to payrolls over the next eight years. Singled-out, Florida alone added 22,000 healthcare jobs over the past 12 months, trumping the state’s standout industry, construction, which employs about the half the workers it did during the boom times. With performance mandates at the forefront of reform, healthcare employers are challenged with staffing units in an efficient, cost effective manner. This often involves engaging a hospital staffing solution that not only alleviates costly payroll burdens, but the administrative headaches that come along with staffing for census fluctuations, family medical leave, vacations and sick days. Web-based hospital staffing solutions that nurture a contingent workforce of qualified candidates for healthcare employers make sense in the post-reform era. To source, recruit and document candidates online saves hospital managers countless hours in the interview process, while bidding, scheduling and covering shifts via Internet allows administrators more time to focus on quality patient care and less time on the phone and buried in paperwork. The beauty of a hospital staffing solution, such [+]