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[Whitepaper] Creative Recruiting Solutions For A Chaotic Market
February 21, 2020 | Jenna Berris
Recent research revealed that finding qualified candidates is a top challenge for long-term care and senior living providers. And 73% believe this challenge will remain the same or get worse over the...
How Onboarding ‘Buddies’ Can Revolutionize The New Hire Process
January 14, 2020 | Jenna Berris
According to research from Gallup, those who have a best friend at work are 7x more likely to be engaged in their job. They also tend to be happier, healthier and more productive. With 40% of...
The Top 10 Long-Term Care & Senior Living Blog Posts Of 2019
January 9, 2020 | Jenna Berris
Before we begin cranking out more content to help you solve senior care workforce challenges in 2020, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on our most loved blogs of 2019. It was the year of PDPM,...
6 Ways You May Be Deterring Your Best Job Candidates
December 20, 2019 | Jenna Berris
With low unemployment numbers and small hiring pools across the country, long-term care and senior living providers are struggling to attract and retain the workers they need. And being short staffed...
[VIDEO] What Are Caregivers Thankful For This Year?
November 26, 2019 | Jenna Berris
This year, we did things a little differently. Rather than have one our bloggers do the talking in our annual Thanksgiving post, we wanted to get the perspective of some of the hardest working, most...
Optimizing Onboarding At All Levels Of A Senior Care Organization
November 22, 2019 | Jenna Berris
Turnover is still top of mind for organizations as we inch closer to 2020. And while no one seems to have discovered the magic bullet to solve it, many are looking to their onboarding process as a...
Combat Rising Labor Costs With These 3 Strategies From Top Providers
November 8, 2019 | Jenna Berris
The long-term care and senior living industries continue to grapple with rising labor costs resulting primarily from high employee turnover and a growing workforce shortage. According to the annual...
How To Use Staff Feedback To Boost Employee Retention & Performance
October 9, 2019 | Jenna Berris
These days, the long-term care provider that does not gather employee feedback finds it harder to sustain success. In fact, all employers are being tasked with increasing their feedback process in...
How To Effectively Communicate With Employees During An Emergency
October 4, 2019 | Jenna Berris
While generators, evacuation plans and the like are all very important, one of the most critical elements of any emergency preparedness plan is being able to quickly communicate with employees, both...
Senior Care Staff Turnover By The Numbers & Why It Matters To You
September 6, 2019 | Jenna Berris
Today’s job market strongly favors workers over employers in the U.S., and figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicates it will continue to be that way for the foreseeable future.
Why The LTC & Senior Living Workforce Needs Soft Skills (& How To Ensure Sure You Have Them)
August 9, 2019 | Jenna Berris
Recent research from Stanford Research Center, the Carnegie Foundation and Harvard University indicates that 85% of a new hire’s job success comes from having well-developed soft skills. Such skills ...
I hope everyone had the best National Nursing Assistants Week ever! I can’t think of a group more deserving of seven days of celebration than all of the incredible nursing assistants out there who go...
