A housekeeper at a local hospital

Discussion 1:

Question:

What labor markets should be considered when recruiting to fill an opening for a housekeeping staff at a local hospital? What labor markets should be considered for staffing the chief surgeon for the local hospital?

Considerations in staffing a housekeeping staff and chief surgeon are different due to differences in duties. Education is an important element in recruiting housekeeping staff but not as important as the skills. Housekeeping is not just cleaning the rooms and ensuring the “house is clean and orderly.” It requires customer-service skills since the housekeeping staff would relate with the patients at some level. Therefore, concentrating on the skills is important to get the right housekeeping staff (Ekwoaba, Ikeije & Ufoma, 2015). Additionally, the experience is also an important element to save time and cost of training housekeeping staff new to the housekeeping role. Recruiting housekeepers with at least two years of experience would ensure the hospital get staff with experience in the housekeeping role. Consideration for hiring a chief-surgeon include the level of education and experience. A chief surgeon is the leader of all surgery-related matters and thus need to have exceptional education level, skills, and experience. The duties of a chief surgeon necessitate concentrating on the education level, skills, and years of experience when recruiting (Mathis, Jackson, Valentine & Meglich, 2016). As compared to recruiting housekeeping staff, recruitment of chief surgeon requires thoroughness to ensure quality recruitment to ensure effective and efficiency in a handling surgery-rated matters in the hospital.

Discussion 2:

Question:

What labor markets should be considered when recruiting to fill an opening for a housekeeping staff at a local hospital? What labor markets should be considered for staffing the chief surgeon for the local hospital?

In human resource management, recruitment is the process of finding and hiring the best and most qualified candidate for a job opening, in a timely and cost-effective manner (Martin). Hiring the housekeeping staff would be a lot easier then the chief surgeon because they do not require as much skill or educational requirements. Working at a hospital is still different then housekeeping at say a hotel, but I would just make sure the applicants knew it was a hospital and there may be more patience or time required. I would go to a local job fair and try and find college kids who are still in school and maybe pay them a little bit more than other people so I can find good candidates that have hopes of moving up once they graduated. Recruiting is a little tougher now than it used to be because the applicant pool is so rich with people. Out of 800 recruiters, 74 percent of them said that hiring will become more competitive this year (Maurer). That being said hiring the chief surgeon, I would make sure it was a highly skilled and educated person with great surgeon experience. It will be harder and more time consuming to find the right candidate because the skill level and educational experience is so much higher than the housekeeping staff. The chief surgeon is also responsible for hiring and recruiting people to his/her surgical staff so I would make sure the person has experience in the hiring and recruiting area. As a member of HR I would work directly with the surgeon to help him/her find the best possible candidates for their staff.