Companies have a tradition of luring away top executive talent from the competition. In sports free agency has changed the entire landscape of professional athletics as teams constantly fight for talent. The talent wars are now reaching the trenches and companies are taking off the gloves and aggressively going after top talent at all levels regardless of who they are currently employed by.

Because employees now know they are potential free agents, they are looking for the best package, not just more money. Who are the people you would hate to lose? It’s time to use these five best practices for retaining your top talent so they aren’t as eager to see if the money is greener on the other side of the fence.

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You’ve sent your resume everywhere, you’ve tweaked it so that
it fits each position you’ve applied for and finally someone
thinks you’re a fit, at least enough to call you in for an
interview. The people doing the interview however are not going
to be professional interviewers but people working for the
company that want to get as much information about you as
possible. It will be your job to make that information positive
and in your favor.

Typically your interviewers will share a list of interview
questions that has been put together by students and faculty at
business schools and universities. The good thing is that there
are many of these lists that are all just about the same, and you
can find them on the Internet.

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You must remember that the world of business is a people oriented job no matter what the job is. By attending multiple interviews you are gaining contacts in your field, and presenting yourself as a possible co-worker. When you are starting interviews be prepared to meet and greet people from many companies. All of these new faces can help your career down the road even if you aren’t hired by them. You want to become familiar with all the players in your profession that you can. It always helps to have key players from other companies who know you and trust you.

Hopefully, you will find a match with a company that meets your needs and also wants your skills over other applicants. The process of matching yourself with the right company starts with an interview and the submission of a resume. A cover letter and several recommendations are usually required also.

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You spent time combing through hundreds of resumes. You selected the three best candidates and had a team of people interview them. After collecting their opinions and performing background checks and references, the employee started. One month later they quit.

Unfortunately this scenarios happens far too often, costing organizations anywhere from $25,000 to an amount equal to the annual salary plus benefits of the position now vacated. Instead of working on employee development, the HR Department must shift to the task of finding a replacement.

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In the late 1950’s Fredrick Herzberg did a landmark study on human relations and how it related to motivation in the workplace. He concluded that there were two factors relating to motivation in the workplace and broke it down into the hygiene theory and the motivation theory. The first part if his findings related to the work environment. The elements of hygiene involved:

•The company

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It seems that there are so many emergency medicine job opportunities, yet so few long-term stable emergency physicians in jobs. Much of this has to do with the ever-changing practice environment and at times tenuous relationship with the hospital, consultant medical staff, and regulatory bodies. Resultantly, stability even for the seemingly most sought after emergency medicine jobs is never assured or guaranteed. In this article, the author explores common practice challenges for emergency physician jobs in today’s healthcare environment.

Today, emergency physicians find themselves working in a crisis environment. This is largely a result of our Nation’s emergency departments (EDs) are the only sector of the healthcare system where there is a federal statue mandating that care is provided to all patient regardless of their ability to pay. Imagine if you will, a law requiring all of those fast quick lube shops to take all motorists, regardless of their ability to pay! Between the years of 1994 and 2004, ED visits increased from 93.4 million to 110.2 million-an 18 percent increase. Meanwhile, there was a significant decline in the numbers of hospitals, hospital beds, and emergency departments. The resultant overcrowding long waits, coupled with an under supply of ancillary support, makes for a crisis work environment.

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If you are searching for a job, an excellent place to put your application is in a hospital. Hospitals hire a lot more than just registered nurses, doctors and pharmacist. Hospitals have need for every type of worker just as other corporations do.

Hospital jobs usually pay a higher rate for entry-level positions. Many hospital jobs are union. Another benefit of working for a hospital is health care. Hospital jobs usually offer the best health care benefits because these benefits must be comparable to the benefits afforded the professional staff which is comprised of Doctors and Nurses.

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Have colleagues who used to support you suddenly stopped speaking to you? Has a project you thought was going to be easy turned into a disaster? Is management scrutinizing your every move as though you might be engaging in criminal activity? You’re in a tormenting environment.

You can’t simply grit your teeth and make it through an experience like this without employing some strategies. It’s going to take developing some new muscles-essentials that provide strength to make it through battles that threaten to overwhelm you.

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