Even experienced recruiters at best-in-class hospitals face time-to-hire challenges. In fact, it takes 82 days on average to fill an RN position with the cost of vacancy at $750 per day per nurse, and 140 days to hire a doctor with a loss of revenue of approximately $5,000 per day per physician. The best healthcare recruitment teams can shave that time down by around half, while other teams are spending over 120 days finding qualified RNs or over 307 days recruiting physicians.*
For healthcare recruiters struggling with time-to-hire metrics, the following may be the underlying issues:
Karen Antrim
Former National Director of Talent Strategies, Trinity Health System
*Data is from Lean Human Capital by HealthcareSource and The Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment (AAPPR).