By Frank Gordon
The quality of your chiropractic staff can have a huge positive or negative impact on patient retention, profitability, and many other factors too numerous to name. When it comes to recruiting personnel for your practice, there are some proven techniques you should consider to make sure you recruit the very best people for your business.
Here are some tips for effectively recruiting and hiring the best people for your chiropractic practice:1. Clearly understand and define the position you are recruiting for. Develop a job description for the position including what objectives the person in the job is expected to reach and specifically what responsibilities and tasks are related to that job.
2. Develop a list of key questions you want to ask any potential candidate so that you can best determine who you wish to hire.
3. Make certain you advertise in the right publications. For example, you wouldn’t want to advertise the position in a home remodeling magazine or a national magazine since these publications would not be best for recruiting.
4. Spend the same time developing advertisements for a position as you would spend on promoting your practice. Most recruiting ads appear the same, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Start out by developing a compelling and attention getting headline that would cause a job candidate to read the recruitment add and contact you.
5. Consider involving others in your office. Ask for their help in defining the job if it is a new position. Also involve your staff in interviewing potential candidates and don’t just rely on your own assessment of a potential candidate. Involving your staff in the interviewing process also has other benefits such as building rapport with the person who is eventually hired.
6. When interviewing, ask the person being interviewed why they want the job and why they feel they are best qualified for the job.
7. Check with at least three references supplied to get feedback on the previous work experience of the candidate.
8. Invest in running a background check on any candidate you are seriously interested in. The background check would confirm that a person’s work history and educational background is correct and would also check for any criminal prosecutions.
9. Consider reading a good book on recruiting.
10.Consult your local or national chiropractic organization for tips on how to effectively recruit employees.
11.Observe how a candidate acts after an interview. Few candidates send you a thank you note. If one does follow up with a thank you note, this is some indication of organization and caring on the part of the candidate.
12.When you finally make a hiring decision, schedule regular review sessions with the new employee to make sure they understand their job and are receiving the proper orientation to succeed in their new position.
Recruiting the right person for your practice is important because of the long term impact such a decision can have. Make sure you devote adequate time and effort to the recruiting process.
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