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Senior Healthcare Blog

Looking for the latest workforce insights & strategies from top providers & industry experts? You’ve come to the right place. Our award-winning blog features fresh best practices around recruiting, hiring, managing and engaging senior care employees, so grab a fresh cup of joe, pull up a chair and jump right in.

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Spreading Random Acts Of Kindness In Senior Care

February 14, 2020 | Lisa Fordyce

It’s Valentine’s Day – a day dedicated to spreading the love. It's a time to tell all the people in our lives, not just our significant others, how much we cherish and appreciate them. I know we're...

Introducing OnShift Employ: End-To-End Talent Acquisition Software For Healthcare

February 10, 2020 | Mark Woodka

Think about the last time you applied for a job. How was that experience? Was the application easy to complete? Were you notified about the status of your submission? Did the recruiter keep you...

Recruiting In Senior Care: When Tossing Mini-Footballs Isn’t Enough

February 5, 2020 | Tommy Marzella

A survey recently conducted by OnShift revealed that 62% of providers cite difficulty finding qualified candidates as one of their biggest workforce challenges. And 73% of people say this challenge...

4 Priorities For Senior Living Providers In 2020

January 24, 2020 | Lisa Fordyce

Cheers to my first blog post of 2020 and the start of a new decade. This year, I will be writing a monthly column to bring thought and conversation to what's happening within the senior living...

Our Workforce 360 Survey Report Is Here!

January 22, 2020 | Cari Rosenberger

In fall 2019, in an effort to better understand the priorities and challenges facing our customers and the senior care industry as a whole, OnShift conducted our first ever Workforce 360 Survey.

We...

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...

[E-Guide] Preventing Employee Burnout In Senior Care

December 13, 2019 | Tommy Marzella

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization declared employee burnout an occupational phenomenon, which doesn't bode well for senior care, an industry that's already struggling to attract and...

4 Tips For Attracting & Engaging Part-Time Workers In Senior Care

December 11, 2019 | Mike Pumphrey

The senior care industry has higher full-time, front-line worker turnover than competing industries like retail and hospitality, according to the research firm behind the annual Great Place to Work...

3 Predictors Of DSP Burnout (And How To Prevent It)

December 3, 2019 | Cari Rosenberger

According to a recent report from Gallup, nearly two-thirds of full-time workers experience burnout on the job. It’s become such a common workforce issue that the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

[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...