Hueman RPO Blog

The nurse shortage has been magnified since the COVID-19 pandemic due to high turnover rates, healthcare demands, and strained working environments. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be close to 200,000 registered nurse openings annually until 2029. A shortage this severe can quickly lead to a national crisis.

As the manufacturing industry works to achieve pre-pandemic employment levels, it's essential you are well equipped to make the right hires for your business. Count on an RPO partner to source quality candidates that match your EVP and culture while attaining high-volume hiring needs with speed and agility.

When you're getting ready to engage an RPO partner, what are the key factors to keep in mind to ensure a successful and effective partnership? Check out our infographic and the helpful links below to find out.

With the advent of automation, 3-D printing, robotics, and data science, the candidates of today’s manufacturing industry are changing. The competition for qualified, specialized manufacturing talent has become the most prominent challenge facing companies today. The NAM Manufacturer’s Outlook Survey for the fourth quarter of 2021 found that 82% of manufacturing companies struggled to find qualified candidates for open positions.

The first step in developing a strong recruitment process is defining the actual need for talent. Identifying recruitment needs helps align recruitment efforts and ultimately guides recruiters and hiring managers to find the most qualified candidate for the position.

We compiled a list of critical questions to define your need to hire to start targeting candidates that fit your requirements, values, and culture.

Here’s a tongue twister: if recruiters can’t find recruiters, how will recruiters get recruited to recruit? Lately, “now hiring” signs have become an all too familiar sight on any excursion to brick and mortar businesses. A scroll through your LinkedIn feed will present the same information: everyone is hiring. 

For many hospitals in early 2021, the roll-out and staffing of the COVID-19 vaccination program fell to the talent acquisition (TA) team. Battling an already struggling workforce and nursing shortage, hospital TA professionals were scrambling to garner the essential business as usual.

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed the processes companies use to recruit candidates. One of the biggest takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic is that much of the hiring process can be performed virtually, which only reduces time to hire and puts more pressure on hiring managers. As a result, many recruiters will continue prioritizing virtual interviews as the first (or even only) step in the interviewing process. 

There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic was a complete shock for everyone. What started as small talk amongst friends and family spiraled into a nationwide pandemic. Offices and schools were closed, remote work and school became the new normal, and staying safe from the virus became the main priority. For recruiters and talent acquisition professionals, their already busy jobs were thrown into unprecedented chaos when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. in early March of 2020.

While some recruiters had to step into overdrive to hire for already hard-to-fill positions, others were suddenly forced to stop hiring processes altogether. Other recruiters were let go or had their jobs put on pause for weeks or months on end. The majority transitioned from in-office positions to working from home with little-to-no training and learning new technologies while also helping hiring managers understand how to juggle remote interviewing, recruitment, and onboarding. 

I think we can all agree that, for any organization to succeed, it’s essential to recruit, hire and manage the very best people. And that begins by developing the best processes for these critical functions.

Hueman is a nationally and globally recognized recruitment firm based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Hueman is the only organization in the country to be named a Best Workplace 15 years in a row and is the parent company to four organizations, including Recruitment Process Outsourcing firm, Hueman: Your RPO Partner. Hueman offers a range of custom RPO services to a variety of partners across various industries, including healthcare, automotive, education, manufacturing and more. As a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) partner, Hueman helps clients get a hold on their recruitment so they can attract and retain top talent.

The majority of organizations face the "insource vs. outsource" decision in multiple aspects of their businesses.

You already know at Hueman, we hone in on the hearts—the humans. That's the very foundation of our new recruitment business. And this concept is part of a key movement we think is long overdue, and so, so important: the human-to-human (H2H) movement.