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Successful Recruitment and Retention

Successful Recruitment and Retention. How to Snag (and keep) the Elusive New Graduate Richard Cashin BSP, Charity Evans BSP, Jade Rosin BSP RBSP Annual Conference March 2004. What are New Grads Looking For?. Graduate with ideals of how pharmacy practice should be they expect:

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Successful Recruitment and Retention

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  1. Successful Recruitment and Retention How to Snag (and keep) the Elusive New Graduate Richard Cashin BSP, Charity Evans BSP, Jade Rosin BSP RBSP Annual Conference March 2004

  2. What are New Grads Looking For? • Graduate with ideals of how pharmacy practice should be • they expect: • ample patient care opportunities • pharmacy to play a role in primary health care • to adopt clinical, rather than technical roles • freedom to develop their own practice style • Ability to affect change • leadership and mentorship from employer/fellow employees • competitive salary/benefits

  3. What Should You Be “Selling?”

  4. Who is your Competition?

  5. Need to Promote Yourself

  6. Job Description • Accurate Description • Advertisements should reflect the real job • Be truthful about the opportunity for clinical time • Encompassing • Make sure that all job details are there • Also serves as a way to measure job description • Result • Not wasting everyone’s time. Only potential candidates will interview.

  7. Promotional and Interviewing Team • Who’s the pitch coming from? • Marketing and HR people are important… but Pharmacists want to know the real story • ? Addition of technicians to the interview team • Stay strong… yes there is a demand but ensure that you get the type of Pharmacist that you want • Money doesn’t always buy you the best Pharmacist

  8. SalaryMoney is only part of the equation!

  9. Retention

  10. What Keeps a Pharmacist? • Job satisfaction • Support and recognition for their role within the organization—do they feel they are making a difference, and that this effort is valued? Ability to make change • Practice opportunities—are they practicing pharmacy the way they want • Continual learning and challenges—Are you providing opportunities for continuing education? What references do you have? • Relationships with co-workers and patients—do they enjoy going to work each day

  11. What Keeps a Pharmacist? • Lifestyle satisfaction • Community involvement • Recreation/entertainment opportunities • Family compatible?

  12. Take home message…. • Recognize and promote your organization’s strengths • Look for opportunities • Embrace change

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