Streamline Your Time-to-Hire

Hiring the best pharmacy candidates before your competitors can scoop them up is a big challenge. Leverage these 7 tips pharmacy hiring managers can use to streamline time-to-hire:
Hiring the best pharmacy candidates before your competitors can scoop them up is a big challenge for hiring managers. Move your best candidates through the hiring process faster with less stress for both yourself and candidates by leveraging these 7 tips:

1. Personalize your discussions. Invest time learning a bit about the candidates’ aspirations. Establishing how your opportunity aligns with the candidate creates a personal connection that often slows their pursuit of competitive opportunities.
2. Define hiring timelines & communicate often. Nothing is more frustrating and off-putting to candidates than lack of communication. Ease their apprehension by outlining a clear schedule for interviews, screening, feedback, decisions, offers and start dates.
3. Clearly articulate the details. We're all familiar with fear of the unknown. Comprehensive information about the job, benefits, start date, hours, co-workers, and any other expectations will keep your position firmly in job seekers’ sights.
   
4. Create urgency. Let them know they're a desired candidate and the importance of hiring in by the established start date.
   
5. Give them bragging points. Highlighting what's unique about your culture, benefits and professional development opportunities to get a leg up on the competition. 
6. Embrace them with enthusiasm. Compel candidates to want the opportunity you're presenting by warmly engaging them. Follow-up emails thanking them for their time or asking a clarifying question are a great way to bring the point home.
7. Partner with a specialist pharmacy recruiter. Save time and maximize your resources by bringing in a recruiting firm exclusively dedicated to serving the pharmacy industry. You'll get access to a vast talent pool, be able to focus your time on only the most qualified candidates and won't have to waste time training a generalist on industry standards.