If you are a business owner or manager in the healthcare industry, you understand the importance of attracting and retaining quality executives in your field. Your people truly define your business, and one of easiest ways to ensure your people are the best is to seek the help of healthcare executive search firms.
But before you can begin the search for the right workers, you need to find the right search firm first. Here a five smart tips to consider before hiring one or more healthcare executive search firms.
1) Experience in the healthcare industry
2) Strategy or approach to seeking talent
3) Availability to complete the work
4) Good communication
5) Innovations that set them apart
Let’s take a closer look.
Experience
Any Healthcare executive search firm needs to know the healthcare industry inside and out in order to meet your needs. See how many years they’ve been in business and what types of healthcare businesses they have helped grow and thrive. Good results for others will mean good results for you.
Strategy for Search
When it comes to healthcare, executive search firms need to have the right plans in place to attract knowledgeable professionals. Do they work with other organizations? Are they plugged into the right schools? Do they have a good in-house research department and other resources? It’s smart to inquire about any search firm’s strategies.
Availability to do the Job
You know how soon you need talent. Can the search firm you hire meet your deadlines? Do they have enough time and talent to get it done? What is their average search cycle time? A good rule of thumb would be a 60 to 75 day search cycle to get a good person in place.
Communication Throughout
From your initial meeting with any firm you hire, you will need to be able to have open communication with any search firm you hire. How responsive are they to your questions and needs? Do they meet in person? On the phone? Email? How often will they give you updates? And do they follow through after the placement of the talent you hire?
Innovation that Sets the Firm Apart
What sets healthcare executive search firms apart from one another? Do they practice Six Sigma processes to ensure they run their firm right? What’s their reputation in the industry? Do they have any special talent themselves that sets them apart? Maybe they have implemented their own proprietary approach. If so, I’m sure it will be a selling point. Research any firm you think of hiring. It really pays off.
Following these five tips can help you find the right firm to staff your healthcare business right. Good luck and good hiring.
Jillian Johnson is a professional content writer with a strong interest in writing about business. Follow her @MissWritey.