Dr. Iman Abuzeid

“In terms of interview practices, when we're hiring for our team, the most critical thing is to get phrases like cultural fit, and like my gut feeling. These kinds of phrases need to just be removed from any hiring process. Totally.”

“We Absolutely do a random sort inside the application on the employer side. The nurses are randomly listed. So everyone has equal opportunity to interview requests.”

“We noticed that nurses that lived further away from a facility were less likely to get interview requests on the platform, even though they wanted to, you know, live in wherever it was, LA or Dallas or whatever it was. And what we did is we just removed the cu…”

“The tough thing with age is that, you know, work experience, of course, is required, and so absolutely age is not part of the nurse profile, but work experience is, and so sometimes you know, employers can tell from that.”

“What we've tried, you know, removing names, even removing pictures the number of interview requests you receive drops.”

“Not only do older nurses get hired less, even if you took a gap from the workforce, right, like you had to raise your kids or, you know, you just have to take a few years off, that also reduces your hiring, you know, chances and opportunities.”

“We had done a quick survey of our team, and it was, like, 50% were experiencing some kind of symptoms of anxiety or depression, and I think that's pretty common across the board, across the country.”

“I don't think nurses should assume because they're very experienced that they know how to interview. And we've just seen it time and time again that you know, very experienced nurses can sometimes bomb interviews.”