Benefits to Hiring from Within

Intern to New Hire: Benefits of Hiring From Within

A vacancy at your hospital can be a daunting expense. Not only do you have to worry about finding a new employee with the appropriate skill set who fits into the company culture, but the numbers alone for recruiting and hiring a new employee can be prohibitive.

A recent survey, conducted jointly by the Employment Management Association and the Society for Human Resources, of 636 professionals, looked at the cost of hiring a new employee. The solution for avoiding the high numbers you might face finding and hiring a brand new employee—convert an intern.

Hiring an intern already engaged in your company offers many benefits. An internship program will provide your company with an ongoing supply of employees who are already familiar with the job. And you will benefit from forgoing the recruitment period because you have ready access to candidates who have proven their skill, dedication, and ability to understand company culture.

The following statistics, gathered from the Cost Per Hire survey done by EMA and SHRM, offer insight into the greatest expenses associated with the hiring/recruiting period. The percentages are followed by a suggestion for reducing those costs by transforming an intern into a new hire.

    * Advertising and event costs (76%) – Converting an intern to a full-time hire means no expensive job listings in newspapers or journals
    * Internet services (63%) – Reduce fees needed for individual job postings
    * Third-party agency contract and fees (52%) – Unnecessary cost if hiring from within
    * Referral bonus costs (49%) -- Reduce staff time spent at job fairs, preparing job ads, resume review, interview time, phone pre-screens. These are just a few of the places your staff will save time and effort by hiring from a current intern pool.
    * Signing bonus (37%) -- No need to pay a signing bonus if you are converting an intern to a full-time employee. Also, employers report that salaries tend to be lower when hiring a current intern.
    * Technology-based hiring management (19%) – The Internet has increased the number of resumes submitted for positions. Reduce the time spent sorting, reviewing and organizing the paperwork by converting an intern to a new hire.


Recruiting and hiring is a large expense for a company of any size. Converting an intern to a new hire is worth it if you are just looking at these numbers, but when reviewing all of the mutually beneficial aspects of the conversion it’s an excellent solution. Whether you start by hiring one intern and vet new candidates by reviewing their performance in this role, or develop an intern program that gives you access to multiple employees, all of whom have been given the opportunity to prove their worth, it’s an obvious solution to finding and hiring the perfect employee at a low cost.

IOM Training

Christopher Townsend Blog - very interesting reading since we are beginning a IOM program. Pass rates on exams are mentioned.

Long Distance Education

Judge Sides With For-Profit Colleges in Challenge to 'State Authorization' Rule

By Kelly Field

Washington

A U.S. District Court judge has struck down a portion of the Education Department's controversial "state authorization" rule but upheld a pair of rules barring deception in college recruiting and commissions for college recruiters.
In an opinion issued Tuesday, Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia tossed out a requirement that colleges offering online programs to students in other states had to seek approval from each of those states. Colleges had not been given adequate time to review the rule and comment on it, Judge Collyer wrote.
Her decision was cheered by the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, which sued the department in January over the state-authorization requirement, and over the department's "misrepresentation" and "incentive compensation" rules. In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the group called the ruling "a major victory for innovation in higher education and an important answer to the department's obvious overreach in this area."
The association expressed disappointment with the judge's decisions upholding the other rules, however, and said it was considering an appeal.
Justin Hamilton, a spokesman for the Education Department, said the department was "happy that the court fundamentally upheld the three regulations challenged by APSCU."
He added that the department was "still reviewing the opinion and considering our options on the one portion of our state-authorization regulation that the court did not affirm."
The state-authorization rule had been opposed not only by for-profit colleges, but by college lobbyists across all sectors of higher education. Colleges had cited the cost of seeking authorization in every state where they enrolled students as a prohibitive factor, and Republicans in Congress had begun work on legislation to repeal the rule.

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MEG Technologist

The Atlantic Neuroscience Institute is seeking a full-time MEG Technologist to join start up of clinical MEG Program for adults and pediatric patients with epilepsy and/or brain tumor.  The ideal candidate will have a minimum of five years of experience in a busy electroneurodiagnostic lab including experience with EEG, LTM, intraoperative monitoring and epilepsy mapping for surgical candidates.  Technologist must be technically savvy and understand waveform analysis. Computer analysis skills required. Individuals with a background in physics will be highly regarded.  BA/BS strongly preferred along with R-EEG-T or other neurophysiology certification.  BLS certified.

Clinical Coordinator

The selected candidate will be responsible for coordinating all functions of the day-to-day operations of the EEG Labs at Overlook and Morristown Medical Centers including personnel recommendations and training, policy development and quality initiatives. Candidate will be instrumental in assisting with the opening of a new Magnetoencephalogram (MEG) program, the only one of its kind in the region for use in a clinical setting.  Works closely with department leadership to ensure accordance to standards of practice. Minimum of 5 years of clinical experience in the neurodiagnostic field as well as certification by a recognized credentialing body. Registration in neurodiagnostic field required. College graduate preferred.

Join us at Atlantic Health System, where new technologies keep us at the forefront of healthcare in New Jersey and nationwide.

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EEG Technician Needed

Please contact Ms. Stein if anyone has contacts that might be interested in working at her institution.

Sheila Stein RNFA, MS, CNOR

Manager of Peri-operative Services

Cayuga Medical Center 

607-252-3853

sstein@cayugamed.org

Video Education

Good Morning,

As most of you are aware, we will be moving into our new building this spring. As part of that move, we will be able to provide full scale high definition videoconferencing through various types of media - including mobile applications such as I-phone and I-pad.

This will not be a new media for us since I have been involved with broadcasting of high speed video for over 15 years with a company called Polycom and ISDN. However due to the development of IP networks and new routers we will now have the opportunity to expand our education and assesments directly into hospitals through face to face interaction ---- on a worldwide basis. We will also have the opportunity to provide medical education into rural health care areas - which can lead to a significant opportunity for grants, etc.

Please take a few minutes to review a you-tube video by the Arizona University Health Sciences Division - Expand the video into a full screen and note the high definition of their sample video. It will give you a opportunity to review what our possibilities might be as we move forward.

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I am very interesting in hearing how you might use the technology and any ideas/concepts you might want to explore.

Long Term Monitoring

Does anyone have a protocol  for patients for  long term
EEG monitoring  on patients in Pentabarb coma.?