Indeed.com has recently limited free, organic job postings to a single feed, making it more essential for employers to consider sponsored posts for visibility. In this article, we explain the new changes, including the continuation of free traffic for jobs indexed from external sources like your career site or ATS, and how Augusta's partnership with Indeed can help you navigate this shift. We also highlight how Augusta's caregiver-specific ranking algorithms and home-care-focused data can help you maximize ROI, optimize your recruitment processes, and connect with the right applicants efficiently in a paid-driven job market.

Join us for an exclusive deep dive into the caregiver job market, where Augusta shares groundbreaking insights from data on 325,000 caregiver applicants.

Watch the replay now! Home Care Operators Classroom: How to Attract Top Caregiver Talent

Watch the replay of this this insightful discussion with four home care industry leaders and innovators on caregiver recruiting and retention!

Watch the replay of our exclusive webinar now! This dynamic session unveils the tactics and measurements needed to transform your hiring funnel and connect top-tier caregiver talent.

Immerse yourself in a realm of worthy insights, battle-tested strategies, and must-have tips for navigating caregiver interviews. Peel back the curtain on top interview questions and master the art and science of identifying solid answers. Surprise, leveling up your interviews starts with data-driven analysis! 🤓

Originally published by The Rowan Report.

Recruiting caregivers for your home care agency can be challenging enough, but it's even more frustrating when those same caregivers don't bother to pick up the phone after applying for your jobs. You may have put in a significant amount of time, money, and energy into trying to find qualified caregiver applicants, only to be repeatedly met with radio silence, missed calls, or unanswered texts. 

Picture this: 50 eager applicants flooding in for your caregiver position, and the excitement is palpable!

But then, the plot twist – you connect with 9, and 4 draw a blank on your agency. You’re frustrated and ask yourself a nerve-wracking, 'why did they even apply'?!

Originally published in McKnights Home Care News.

If every unemployed person in the United States today had a job, there would still be 3 million unfilled roles, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, home care agencies get anywhere from dozens to thousands of applicants each week to their positions. The fact is, there are millions of people across the country applying for caregiver jobs every month.

Welcome to the replay of Augusta’s Home Care Operators Vision Panel 2024 – where the magic happens beyond the buzzwords and the future of home care comes to life! 🌟

Did you know that as 2024 approaches, home care corporate execs are diving headfirst into AI, alternative payer sources, and employee-centric solutions? Buckle up, because this isn't your average corporate chat. We're bringing you a stellar panel of four hands-on home care operators, ditching boardroom talk, for the nitty-gritty of day-to-day operations.

In this webinar replay we dig into five data points we’ve gathered from over 4,000 monthly caregiver applicants which offer considerable insight into how your hiring process may need to adapt in this softening, but still tight labor market.

In this special webinar, Stephen Vlok from Celo Health and Jen Waldron from Augusta Home Care Recruiting, will walk home care agency owners and operators through communications strategies to effectively recruit and retain more caregivers.

Watch the webinar replay now to learn what you need to know about:

• The data behind communication and its impact on recruiting and retention

• How legal compliance around communication will impact recruitment and retention

• 3 ways improved communication enhances your employee experience

Enjoy!

Have you ever gotten a caregiving position and then realized you wished you learned more about your new employer during the interview?

Maybe found yourself thinking… “this is not the job I thought it was going to be?”

Are you looking to break into the healthcare industry and get your first job as a caregiver? Would you like to be prepared with the right interview questions for your prospective employer?

Then this video is for you! In this short video, Jen Waldron Co-Founder of Augusta Home Care Recruiting and Tania Williams, Founder and CEO of Homewatch Caregivers in Long Beach, CA will walk you through 5 essential questions to ask your prospective home care agency employer. We know what to ask because we've been there!

In this post, you’ll learn about 5 Must-Try Caregiver Recruiting Websites for Home Care Agency Owners.

The success of a home care agency can be attributed the planning and execution of the 3 P’s: the processes in place, the quality of the product and the right people doing the work.

In this post, we’ll cover how the three components work together in a home care agency and the trends that make 2023 the year of process in home care.

Are you seeing plenty of caregiver applicants, but not enough of the quality ones?

Does it seem like caregiver applicants 'never' show up to your interviews?

Do caregivers seem to “spam-apply” to your job posts?

Then this 30 minute webinar is for you.

As a business owner in the senior care industry, you know that finding and recruiting quality caregivers is essential to your success. The last couple years have made it tough to find the right caregivers to join your team, but it's important to think outside the box and come up with creative ways to attract more caregivers to your business.

In this post we’re sharing some of the common interview questions and the types of answers that help you improve your chances of hiring the best caregivers for your home care agency.

These tips are meant to help you improve your phone screening interview, specifically, as that is a high-volume touch with a prospective new caregiver.

On Lydia's 25th anniversary of being the caregiver to her long-time client, he handed her an envelope with $50,000. She gave it all to her kids.

We interviewed a caregiver who was with the same client for 30+ years. They developed a special bond.

When she had to move to a different part of California, he moved with her.

She was his caregiver until he died at 103 years old.

We had candid interviews with real, veteran caregivers to uncover the answers to some of home care agency operator’s burning questions. Home Care Agency operators will learn key insights from your target hires:

What are the most important things to caregivers about their job?

When do they start looking for a new job? What will make them leave their company?

Where do they go when they want to find a new caregiving job?

If you’re like most home care agencies in the US today, you’re struggling to find caregivers. From our own research and data with home care agencies, we’re finding that 50% of agencies report turning away clients. How do you leverage Facebook’s 2.9B users to tap into a new pool of talent?