Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

Indeed.com limits free, organic job posts to one feed. What do you do now? 

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.

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Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

REPLAY: What’s in your Caregiver Interview DNA

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! 🤓

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Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

Getting the Silent Treatment: 5 Reasons Applicants Don't Pick Up Your Calls After They Apply

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. 

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Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

Myth-busting: Why you can’t find the quality caregiver applicants

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.

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Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

*Webinar Replay* Beyond Buzzwords: Home Care in 2024 – Insights from Local Operators

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.

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Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

6 Creative Ways to Recruit Caregivers for Your Senior Care Business

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.

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Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

Caregiver Interview Questions and Answers

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.

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Jen Waldron Jen Waldron

The Essential Guide to Recruiting Caregivers on Facebook

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?

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Yvan Castilloux Yvan Castilloux

Caregiver Recruiting Lessons Learned #1: You need to test Facebook ads with higher amounts than you think.

Have you been frustrated with marketing on Facebook? Have you wasted time and thousands of $ trying to figure this out?

We’ve talked to operators and we’ve gathered the top 10 lessons learned when using Facebook to market to caregivers.

I’ll be posting one lesson a week. Here’s the first one:

“I wanted to try Facebook by boosting a simple job post with $50 ad spend to see if it worked. If it would have worked, I would have invested more in it.”

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