Many employers overlook the importance of writing well-crafted job postings when recruiting caregivers. Yet crafting effective job postings is vital to attracting qualified applicants who will actually show up to their interviews.

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!

10 years ago, caregiver applicants might have walked into your home care agency off the street and applied to work for your agency on the spot. The world has changed in some pretty significant ways since then. Caregiver job seekers today typically begin their job search online, first. The search term “caregiver jobs near me” has nearly doubled in popularity compared to 5 years ago, according to google trends.

In this post, we’ll cover:

• What is inbound marketing and inbound recruiting

• how to get started with inbound recruiting

• Identifying your ideal candidate persona

• Content creation for home care

• Creating a delightful candidate experience

We closed off the year 2022 with great customers. I'm grateful about all of the praise we've had so far. We wouldn’t be there today without you. Thank you! If you have challenges hiring caregivers, read this and let us know what you think!

The need for caregivers is rapidly outpacing the speed at which agencies can hire and train them. Most agencies we talk to say they could double in size if only they could find enough qualified caregivers.

Feb. 14, 2022 at 10am PT / 1PM ET

Join us for an insightful webinar discussion, hosted by Augusta Home Care Recruiting, with four seasoned home care owners and operators who are looking at the year ahead and strategizing about their business needs and growth for 2023. These home care operators will share what they think is coming up in 2023 on a variety of subjects:

• Caregiver recruiting and wage increases

• Client rates and changes

• Caregiver retention programs

• Technology in home care

• Medicare Advantage

• Their biggest investments in the year ahead

Register now!

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.

Whether you are a family caregiver, professional caregiver, or new to the senior care industry and are applying to home care agency jobs in California. You need to submit an application to register as a Home Care Aide (HCA) with the state of California. In this video, we will go through step by step how to register and submit your application on the HCA guardian website.

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?

Why don't caregivers refer your home care jobs to people they know? How do you attract more caregivers? What does white glove customer service mean for caregivers?

This week, Augusta.care's own Jen Waldron hosted a Fireside Chat with Jennifer Lagemann, Founder of NextJennCopy.

We discuss some of the outside the box thinking that can help home care owners attract great caregivers and provide them with the type of support that keeps them on your team.

Facebook boasts 2.9 billion+ users. It’s impossible to deny that your target audience, qualified caregivers, are not on the platform. They are there.

Yet, many home care agencies tell us that they’re not able to get qualified caregivers to apply for their jobs through the platform. They feel that they’ve wasted their money or had very low quality candidates.

So, why hasn’t your home care agency seen success with the platform?

I am assuming you have asked yourself this question multiple times when you have a job offered to a caregiver and all you need is for them to get HCA registered…yet they still do not get it done.😲

But I have a question for you. 🤔

What are the best ways to recruit and attract caregivers to your home care agency? Check out these three surprising strategies!