John Beresford

I help small to mid-sized hospitals win the talent war with Next-Gen Recruiting Solutions like our HireSource 360™ AI Hiring Systems. Founder @ UpLevel Sourcing

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The most useful question before changing jobs:

Are you leaving toward something, or just away from something?

Leaving away means the next role disappoints as fast as the last one did. Same problem, different paint.

Leaving toward sticks.
#CareerStrategy

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Where do qualified clinicians for a 75-bed community hospital live?

Not on job boards.

Within a 90-minute commute. From regional programs. Connected to people you already employ. Mostly not looking.

The question isn't "where do we post." It's "who's there."
#TalentStrategy

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Most hospitals measure recruiting by applicant volume.

It's the wrong number.

A hundred wrong applicants is the same as fifty wrong applicants. Zero hires either way.

Your inbox isn't empty. Your pipeline is.

#HealthcareRecruiting #HospitalHiring #SignalVsNoise

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The healthcare hiring market just turned over. Most workforce plans are still built for the old one.

Geographic preference is hardening. Shift flexibility outweighs modest pay. Speed-to-decision beats comp.

Old plan, old results.

#HospitalLeadership #HiringStrategy

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There's a difference between a pipeline and a list of names/vendors you scramble to call when something breaks.

Most hospitals have the latter.

Real pipelines get built quietly, for years, when nothing is on fire. Then they look like luck.
#HospitalRecruiting #TalentPipeline

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Memorial Day.
To everyone who served — thank you.

And to the families of those who didn't come home: thinking of you today.

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The most expensive retention problem a hospital can have starts before the offer letter is signed.

You can't build a retention strategy to compensate for a hiring strategy that wasn't paying attention.

The hire is the input. Culture is the output.

#HospitalRecruiting

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#LinkedInOptimization

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The first thing a recruiter does when your name comes up isn't read your resume. It's open your LinkedIn. Nobody hires titles. They hire people. If you're not actively job hunting — that's exactly when your profile should be working hardest. #HealthcareCareers

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A 60-bed rural hospital won't outspend an academic medical center on bonuses.

But it can offer what the big systems can't: closer to the patient, closer to the community, closer to the decision-makers.

The smaller the hospital, the more specific the strategy.

#RuralHealthcare

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Most hospitals don't have a candidate problem.

They have a "noise" problem.

The signal is there. You just have to clear enough room to hear it.

#HealthcareRecruiting #HospitalRecruiting #SignalVsNoise

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#CandidateExperience #HealthcareHiring #HospitalRecruiting

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The hiring process IS the audition.

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The strong ones are deciding before the offer ever lands.

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Hiring is the audition. And the strong candidates are paying attention to every detail of how you run yours.

#HealthcareHiring #CandidateExperience #HospitalLeadership

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The hospitals with the strongest hiring outcomes share something in common — and it isn't comp.

It's process discipline.

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None of this is glamorous. None of it shows up in a marketing brochure. But it's what candidates use to decide whether you're a place worth saying yes to.

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Most healthcare leaders' LinkedIn About sections read like resumes in paragraph form.

Bullet duties. Acronyms. Job titles.

Recruiters scan dozens a day. Make yours sound like a person, not a CV.

#LinkedInTips #HealthcareCareers #JobSearch