As many of you are well aware, the recruiting and hiring process can be very expensive, especially in regards to your valuable time. This blog provides experience-based information, tips, and resources to help you:
Recruit physicians and health care providers that will strengthen your hospital’s presence
Understand what really works in recruiting physicians
Maintain the needs of physicians to minimize losing them to other areas and/or hospitals
We aren’t just recruiting physicians to work in our hospitals, we are asking families to come be a part of our community. Explore this blog, apply the skills we share, and always give us your feedback and personal stories. We are all in this to learn together. Perhaps extreme, the following joke helps illustrate the importance of being genuine during all phases of the recruitment process:
One day while walking down the street a highly successful doctor was tragically hit by a bus and died. His soul arrived up in heaven where he was met at the pearly gates by St. Peter himself.
“Welcome,” said St. Peter. “Because you have done so much good for others the higher powers that be are going to let you spend both a day in Hell and a day in Heaven and then allow you to choose where you would like to spend the eternities in.
Next, St. Peter and the doctor descended in an elevator down, down, down to hell.
The doors opened and the doctor found himself stepping out onto the putting green of a beautiful golf course. Many of his friends - fellow physicians, nurses, and administrators whom he had worked with greeted him. Everyone was dressed up nicely and was cheering for him.
They held a party for him and talked about old times. They played an excellent round of golf and in the evening enjoyed a wonderful steak and lobster dinner in the country club.
He also met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy and a killer golfer. They had a great time exchanging jokes and stories. The day flew by and before he knew it, it was time to leave. Everybody shook his hand and waved goodbye as he got on the elevator. The elevator went up, up, up back to the pearly gates where St. Peter again greeted him.
“Now it’s time to spend a day in Heaven,” he said. So the doctor spent the next 24 hours lounging around on clouds and playing the harp and singing. He had a great time and before he knew it the day had passed and St. Peter came and got him.
“So, you have spent a day both in Hell and in Heaven. Now you must choose your eternity,” he said.
The doctor paused for a second and then replied, “Well, I never thought I’d say this, I mean, Heaven has been really great and all, but I think I had a better time in Hell.”
So St. Peter escorted him to the elevator and again they went down, down, down to Hell. When the doors of the elevator opened he found himself standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth.
His friends were all dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage and putting it in sacks. The Devil came up to him and put his arm around him.
“I don’t understand,” stammered the doctor, “yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and a country club and we ate lobster and we danced and had a great time. Now all I see is a wasteland of garbage and everyone looks miserable.”
The Devil looked at him and smiled. “Yesterday we were recruiting you. Today, you’re STAFF.”
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