How were you recruited?

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Good evening! I am planning on going to nursing school in the next ten years but before that I have just been hired on at a hospital as the sole recruiter and I will mostly recruit nurses. They are building a new, state of the art hospital and will need to almost double their nursing staff with a mix of new grads and experienced nurses. My boss is looking for new and creative recruiting ideas. He's very much a "think outside of the box" kind of guy and wants to attract the best nurses possible. The old hospital has been around for a long time and even though it is a quality insitution it is not one of the "hot" choices for nurses. People just don't know about us, although they certainly will soon enough!

Anyway, I was hoping that some of the nurses here could share with me how they were recruited to their position and if they have seen any really different recruitment methods. Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

Thanks everyone for your input! It really does help. :nuke:

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I was emailed by a recruiter listing student nursing associate jobs with four-hour shifts PRN. I thought four-hour shifts were awesome as well as the PRN. I inquired about a particular position at one of the hospitals and he told me about another department, oncology, at that hospital. I was interested and went to work there as an SNA and the rest is history. I have transitioned into the unit as a GN. I love my manager and the nurses. And I loved that they offered me a work schedule that just about any student who wants to work part time could. It was a great trial run for me and for the unit. And I got paid for it -- not free labor like clinicals. And tne nurses were nice, unlike clinicals. I promise you, if staff nurses would be nicer to students, more students would go work at those hospitals!

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Although I said before that I would be a nurse for free (and I meant it)...

Number 1: salary: beat all the other area hospitals.

Number 2: sign on bonus: beat all the other area hospitals, even bigger bonus for experienced nurses.

They will beat a path to your door.

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).

-develop a student nurse extern program with your local nursing schools. This was the way that myself and about 12 other people in my class chose our first jobs.

- Reimburse for uniforms

- Offer incentive pay for overtime shifts, harder-to-fill shifts

- call every single applicant back ASAP. Theres nothing that says I'm a valuable prospective employee than a quick response WITH FOLLOWUP! With my most recent job (which I'll be starting in a month and a half) I posted an online resume, and THREE recruiters had called me within 36 hours to set up interviews. They recognized all the work I had done putting together my application, and were doing all the work from then on. I had three interviews where I was able to meet the nurse managers and tour the hospital/units before making a decision. I was given a full benefit packet on my way out the door with my salary and benefits spelled out. (no beating about the bush about money) They then called me a week later to see if there was anything they could do for me, and to see if I had any further questions. I ended up taking the job there, and it was partly because of the recruitment experience.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

I was never recruited

I recruited the positions I wanted.

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Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.

Anyway, I was hoping that some of the nurses here could share with me how they were recruited to their position and if they have seen any really different recruitment methods. Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

Being the sole recruiter for a new facility sounds like a huge responsibility.

Potential employees nowadays is online.

Make sure they have a great website with lots of information about the facility and about what it like to work there. Open positions must be searchable, and it must be easy to apply online.

Your software should be able to search resumes for keywords so you can identify & contact the hot prospects quickly.

Make sure your HR is friendly and that that you are easy to reach in a timely manner. When I apply for a position, it's for a position I've targetted, and qualified for. If you don't call me back for 3 weeks, I'll have already moved on to other opportunities.

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Specializes in Peds, ER/Trauma.
Although I said before that I would be a nurse for free (and I meant it)...

Number 1: salary: beat all the other area hospitals.

Number 2: sign on bonus: beat all the other area hospitals, even bigger bonus for experienced nurses.

They will beat a path to your door.

I agree- "Don't clap, throw money"

Money definetly talks....;)

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