A recent blog post from Select International discusses common themes in successful hiring strategies for the healthcare sector.
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on Select International's website.
Healthcare organizations are looking for innovative solutions: New technologies, new care delivery models, and new approaches to talent. They are also looking to other industries – adopting lean or Toyota Production Systems, better decision-support systems, and more sophisticated revenue cycle approaches. Other industries have used behavioral assessments for decades. Surveys show that as many as 70% of companies now use behavioral and personality assessment tools in their hiring process. It’s become so ubiquitous that Time Magazine did a cover story on it.
It’s great that healthcare is looking at adding more innovative hiring and talent strategies. We remind clients, though, that it’s not as simple as buying the same pre-employment test that worked for some manufacturing or sales organization and plugging it into whatever you are currently doing. We’ve come in to clean up plenty of hiring processes that struggled not because they chose the wrong test (although it happens), but because no one had the implementation expertise or experience to make it work in healthcare. Click here to continue>>
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