On October 1, 2024, Indeed will officially phase out organic job listings, leaving home care agencies and recruiters in search of new strategies to maintain volume in their talent pipelines. For those who have long relied on the free traffic and visibility from organic posts, this change is bound to shake up recruitment practices. 

Home Care Operators Classroom: How to Attract Top Caregiver Talent!

Join us:

🗓 Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024
🕒 Time: 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern

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.

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.

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?

In this incredibly tight labor market for great caregivers, how do you manage your business to attract and keep the best caregivers?

Jen Waldron from Chief Recruiter at Augusta.care interviews Anne-lise Gere, CEO of Gere Consulting, an HR expert in the home care field to find out!

Here’s lesson # 8 for today: Facebook recruiting works really well and works for different people.

We’ve onboarded customers in the past 2 weeks and it’s been performing extremely well.

1 thing that I want you to come away with here is that it works differently for different people.

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.”