Now more than ever, a healthcare traveler’s “speed to market” is absolutely vital. Due to recent market changes, the healthcare travel industry is highly competitive, meaning travelers need to be quick on their feet when it comes to landing assignments. Here are our top tips for achieving faster speed to market, so you can secure the best travel jobs.
Speed to market is the time it takes for a business or agency to present a product/idea to the market. In the healthcare traveling industry, the speed to market definition includes “products” as professional healthcare travelers, and the “markets” as the facilities that need a helping hand from a healthcare professional. As the competition for healthcare travelers grows, speed to market is a competitive advantage for landing the ideal placement.
Flexibility and adaptability are key in today’s market. In 2020, many permanently staffed healthcare professionals left their positions to join the traveling healthcare field where they could work 32 to 40 hours a week, while earning the same amount, if not more, than they did as perm staff.
To accommodate this increased competition for jobs, healthcare travelers should take advantage of the autonomy they have over their careers and try to be flexible for what they’re looking for. Healthcare Traveler Today said, “Whether it’s being more open to more locations and compromising special scheduling or shift requests, the more flexible a traveler can be, the more likely you can find a new assignment faster.”
Since location is often a top priority for most healthcare travelers, there’s even more pressure to get started sooner. With intense competition, jobs in highly desirable locations are usually the first to be filled. How do professional healthcare travelers set themselves apart from the competition to obtain their desired job? Here are some ideas for improving your speed to market strategy.
It can be a struggle to keep track of all the necessary steps and paperwork needed to start a career as a professional healthcare traveler. With Marketplace, healthcare professionals can store and save all their important information in one convenient location to customize their job hunt and make the process significantly easier. Within the profile, healthcare travelers can customize their skills list, upload licenses, and add certifications. Having all your paperwork updated and ready in one place is helpful when it comes time to jump on highly sought-after assignments.
It’s not a secret that continuing education units (CEUs) are essential to a thriving healthcare career. CEUs allow healthcare travelers to maintain updated licenses and certifications, plus help land their next travel assignment that much faster. With more skills on a resume and in a traveler profile, the more a traveling healthcare worker will be sought-after.
Healthcare professionals also need a trustworthy and supportive recruiter to help them make the best decisions for their careers and overall lives. To accomplish this goal, healthcare travelers must communicate openly with recruiters, being honest about difficult choices, pain points, and any other qualms.
Great recruiters want their travelers to be successful and enhanced communication only increases the chances of traveler career and personal needs being met. Marketplace also allows travelers to rate and review recruiters and view scores from other likeminded healthcare professionals.
For one, healthcare travelers shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to simply apply for their next assignment. By creating a traveler profile, healthcare professionals can speed up the placement process and optimize speed to market. Within the profile, healthcare travelers can add their skills list, upload licenses, add certifications, and use the “one click apply” button to quickly submit job applications.
It’s all streamlined to make the job search and placement easier for you. When you upload your resume, licenses and certifications, you can quick apply to the jobs you’ve got your eye on. Traveling healthcare professionals know that timely and efficient placement is the core to a successful career. The sooner travelers put themselves out there with a complete profile, the closer they are to landing their dream job. In fact, travelers with a complete profile are five times more likely to be placed in an assignment!
There’s no better time than now to improve speed to market. Healthcare travel jobs are expanding with convenience and speed to placement at the epicenter of professional traveler’s must-haves. This fast-moving healthcare workforce won’t slow down, so it’s time for healthcare professionals and staffing agencies to speed up and keep up with the demand.