A healthcare facility is only as good as the doctors and nurses who make up its medical staff. Moreover, many hospitals suffer when health workers leave them for the competition. A leader in local staffing services, Odyssey strives to connect health centers with great job seekers and keep them for the long haul. Here are […]
4 “Don’ts” for Medical Phone Interviews
Congratulations on landing that phone interview for a medical job at your dream company. While you might be excited that your first meeting will take place over the airwaves instead of in person, the truth is that phone interviews can be complex. There are steps that job candidates need to take to impress their interviewers […]
How to Cheer Up an Unhappy Medical Staff
Working in the medical field can be stressful and emotionally trying. These challenges can lead to burnout among healthcare workers, causing a decline in the quality of patient care. Therefore, it is incredibly important that your medical staff maintains a high level of morale at all times. If you’ve noticed that your healthcare team is […]
How to Not Appear Desperate as a Healthcare Candidate
Even in an in-demand field such as healthcare, landing a job can be difficult. As you go on interviews and meet with hiring managers, it’s important for you to present yourself as positively as possible. Unfortunately, candidates sometimes come on too strongly during the hiring process, leaving hiring mangers with the impression that they’re overly […]
How to Gain Flexibility in Your Medical Career
Tired of working long hours and never being able to take a vacation? Sick of your city or town? If you love your work, but not the limitations of your current job, you might want to consider a locum tenens career. Ideal for those looking to gain flexibility in their medical careers, locum tenens work […]
How to Properly Turn Down a Medical Position
As vast as the healthcare industry is, it can sometimes feel like a very small world. Often, medical workers will run into the same people at various facilities, working with them multiple times over the course of their careers. Given the intimate nature of the medical community, it’s incredibly important that you don’t burn bridges. […]
Why Team Building is Important For Medical Staff
Regular team building is important in any profession. Not only are team-building activities relatively easy to integrate into your office routine, but they’ve also been proven to help groups function more efficiently. Unfortunately, the heavy workloads and exhausting schedules that are common in the healthcare industry make it difficult for many facilities to hold team-building […]
It’s Time to Re-Evaluate Your Staff
Regular performance evaluations are necessary to determine how efficiently your facility is running, but many supervisors only schedule evaluations once a year. Unfortunately, this annual review process has increasingly proven to be inefficient. A full year is too broad of a brush to paint with, and many of the positives and the negatives of an […]
What is a Locum CRNA?
Becoming a certified registered nurse anesthetist is one of the most demanding specialties a nurse can have. In total, CRNAs spend seven years training for their jobs, learning to assist with all aspects of anesthetization. If a medical facility is transitioning between permanent CRNAs or only hiring on a short-term basis, they often employ locum […]
3 Resume Tips for Physician Assistants
Your resume serves as your introduction to potential employers. Given the importance of this job-seeking tool, make sure your resume is in optimal condition before sending it out into the world. Although a simple, one-page document may be standard for many professions, resumes for physician assistants tend to be longer, more detailed and more complicated. […]
