By Susan Saldibar

So, you are in the all-too-familiar bind of needing to fill a couple of LVN slots. You gear up for the all-too-familiar process that involves the following actions:

  1. Scour the employment sites to see what the going rates are.
  2. Assign an (unlucky) admin to pose as a job applicant and contact local competitors.
  3. Arrive at a wage and a few perks that feel about right.
  4. Cast your line out and wait.
  5. Watch resumes start floating in. “Who are these people? Didn’t they read the job description?”
  6. After a ton of time spent sifting through uninspiring resumes, conduct interviews and extend offers.
  7. Onboard two new hires, one of which looks promising, the other not so much.
  8. Naturally, watch the promising one leave in two months for higher pay and a better environment.
  9. Watch the unpromising one stay on … and on ….

But the real problem wasn’t your lack of trying. You know the drill, after all. You’ve got this, right?

Wrong. The real problem is that you THINK you’re doing everything you can.

But there’s a tool that could make your life so much easier.

Technologies like LivingPath’s (a Foresight partner) are disrupting the vicious cycle of hiring, removing about two-thirds of your wasted efforts — giving you back your time and helping you make better hiring decisions.

Hitting the reset on the job search mechanics above, inserting LivingPath, here’s what they do faster, and way more efficiently than traditional methods:

  • Use a salary parser algorithm to extract and organize salary data from over 100,000 career websites. (No more scouring Indeed, Monster, and whatever new job search engine is on the market.)
  • Create comparisons of salaries of various markets, such as country, state, metropolitan area, city, or postal code. (You won’t be offering big city salaries to LVNs in your smaller community. Or vice versa!)
  • Break down salaries by job level and level of experience. (So, you will know that your offer won’t be insulting to the very people you want to attract.)
  • Provide instant views of salary offerings, contrasted against actual salaries paid by quarter or month. (Now you know your offers are on point.)

And that means …

  • You set informed wages based on comprehensive data from multiple sources.
  • You post your job and actually get qualified applicants.
  • You onboard two new hires, both of which look promising.
  • They are comfortable in their new positions, knowing they are being properly compensated.

How much less time did you spend on all the upfront research and number crunching?

And think of how you could have used that time to create a stronger hiring package with more creative incentives. How much longer will these new hires stay aboard because you …

… got the right person in the right position for the right compensation.

The technology to do this is out there. But there’s a lot more detail as to how it works to deliver the intelligence you need to hire right the first time. And I know where you can get it, along with graphs generated from a ton of accurate data points. You’ll be impressed. I was.

Check out this informative document from LivingPath that gives you all the details, plus graphs. You can download it here. 

The bottom line is that there are technologies that do some stuff much better than we can. LivingPath offers one of them. Time to get on board?