Hiring: Our Biggest Problem
3 steps to solving your hiring puzzle
For Christmas you open a one-thousand-piece puzzle of a majestic waterfall. You dump it on the kitchen counter and wonder how on Earth you will make this mess look like the masterpiece on the box cover. Assembling a pharmacy team is similar and we need a better approach.
Solving hiring in pharmacy will first mean finding more candidates without a sizeable investment of our time. We need to automate hiring into a process that isolates precisely what we need, finds more puzzle pieces and brings them through a consistent and well-practiced screening-interviewing-placement pipeline.
How can we apply this in our pharmacies in 3 steps?
Yes, craft your posting and post this on common online job-seeking sites like Indeed. But you can also email these to your local employment office who will spread it to local colleges, universities and job banks that you don’t have access to or time for. They will often do this for free and even pre-screen candidates for you. Be clear on the personality characteristics that do well in your pharmacy and ask them to refresh your posting every few months since…
