Health IT Candidate Sourcing: 4 Tips to Find the Right Talent

Securing the right talent is crucial for healthcare organizations striving to innovate while delivering optimal patient care.

This guide is crafted to assist healthcare leaders, HR professionals, and hiring managers in navigating the intricacies of hiring top-tier talent, including leaning on a platform like Abra to ease the time and expense burden of sourcing candidates.

Defining the Right Criteria

When sourcing Health IT candidates, defining the right criteria is a critical first step.

Things to add to your check-list:

• Specify the essential certifications and industry-standard credentials required for success in the role.
• Define the technical skills candidates are expected Health IT to possess, such as proficiency in health information systems, expertise in data security protocols, a thorough understanding of interoperability standards, etc.
• Set prior experience preferences which demonstrates both years of expertise and an ability to adapt to evolving technologies.

Pro-tip: When you source candidates through the Abra platform, our algorithm automatically matches the right candidates to your role using the items on this checklist and many more. By focusing on these criteria, employers can identify candidates with both technical expertise and a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities in healthcare information technology.

Evaluating Availability

Aligning the availability of candidates to the needs of the role saves your organization a considerable amount of time.

When assessing the availability of a Health IT candidate, consider factors like:

• Work hours
• Location (remote or in-office)
• Clarify whether the candidate is needed for full time or fractional work
• Time needed to give notice to current employer (where applicable)

Matching candidate availability to the needs of the role is often time consuming and manual, but necessary. You don’t want to invest time in interviewing a candidate only to discover they can't start when required or are unwilling to travel to an office when needed.

Luckily, Abra includes these criteria into our matching algorithm which means only those who meet the availability requirements for your role will show up in your candidate matching.

Checking References

Contacting previous employers or professional contacts helps leaders gain a comprehensive understanding of the candidate's past performance, strengths and areas for growth, but is one more manual lift in the hiring process.

Abra mitigates this by incorporating previous employer reviews directly into the platform to save time and aids employers in making well-informed decisions.

Utilizing Tech

Securing the right talent in Health IT is crucial for healthcare technology leaders.

Leveraging innovative technology, like Abra, transforms the sourcing process by taking into account all of the details that matter to ensure an optimal fit, and matching the right candidates to the right roles before you have to even look at a resume.

Book a demo of the Abra platform today to see our skills matching technology in action and explore how you can increase hiring efficiency while saving 30% on your cost to employ Health IT talent.