Dr. Iman Abuzeid, CEO and co-founder of healthcare hiring platform Incredible Health, discusses the accelerating structural shortage facing the US nursing workforce.
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Abuzeid: Removing Candidate Names and Photos Drops Interview Requests
“What we've tried, you know, removing names, even removing pictures the number of interview requests you receive drops.”
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Abuzeid: Incredible Health Cuts Hiring to 12 Days, Saving Hospitals $2M+
“All of these with a goal of accelerating the hiring even further, so we got it down to 12 days now, and on average we save every hospital that we work with at least two million dollars because they dramatically try to reduce their travel nurse costs as well as…”
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Abuzeid: 'Cultural fit' and 'gut feeling' must be removed from hiring
“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.”
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Abuzeid: Age and career gaps reduce nurse hiring opportunities
“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.”
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Abuzeid: Hiding candidate locations eliminated geographic hiring bias on platform
“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…”
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Abuzeid: Highly experienced nurses frequently bomb job interviews
“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.”