Over the last several months Silkin Management Group has presented a wide variety of articles on the subject of hiring the right staff for a health care office. With hundreds of clients throughout the United States and Canada undergoing expansion, knowing how to hire is a vital piece of practice management knowledge for Silkin Management Group clients.
Several articles have been posted on many of our Silkin Management Group blog sites about the hiring, including the hiring interview. You can link to one such article here: Hiring Interview Questions. You’ll find below some more tips concerning hiring in general.
- Always screen for the applicant’s emotional tone level. You want a “glass half full” personality, not a “glass half empty” person. Watch for negativity in the answers to your questions and avoid those types of people.
- Always recruit new people. Don’t just wait for someone to leave. Otherwise, by the time you place an ad, three to four weeks could go by before you hire someone. Instead, keep your hiring process going and create a list of potential prospects.
- Don’t wait until you are totally overloaded to hire new people. Anticipate expansion. When you are in an expansion phase, hire while you still have time to train the new people. And hire before you are so overloaded that the office starts to slow down because of overload.
- Find out about Silkin Management Group’s group hiring procedure to quickly screen down to the two or three best candidates. This will save you a lot of time weeding through prospects.
Tomorrow’s Silkin Management Group blog will present some more tips concerning the hiring process.
If you would like more information about how Silkin Management Group can help your practice, give us a call at 800-695-0257 or visit our website at www.silkinmanagementgroup.com
Bill Hickey
Silkin Management Group Consultant
