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Addressing workforce attendance and performance challenges for a fast-growing medical waste company

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Our client is a verified federal contractor of the U.S. government and large hospital systems for biohazard waste. It is the fastest growing company in the medical waste industry, with a network of treatment facilities and transfer stations across the country. Their service includes the disposal of medical waste, such as syringes and surgical equipment, as well as the cleaning and sterilization of trash containers.

Because our client provides services that help hospitals meet health and safety protocols to protect staff, patients, and visitors, maintaining an active workforce is critical. As the company experienced workforce issues like poor attendance and unmet performance expectations, they turned to our staffing app, JobStack, to overcome their challenges.

With JobStack, managers enjoy 24/7 access to their staffing orders, where they can request additional staff at the last minute, rate workers, and invite their favorite workers back. The app allows companies to maintain high-quality service, even during unexpected absences or surges in demand.

Our client started by using JobStack to request just one worker and were so pleased with the worker’s performance that they requested two more workers to serve on a long-term basis. All three individuals were eventually converted to full-time employees.

Meanwhile, the JobStack staffing app became our client’s go-to-source for on-demand workers, and their positive experience with our staffing services led to a partnership expansion in other states.

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Attracting clinical talent for the world’s largest healthcare employer

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Studies show that the simple act of expressing gratitude has a ripple effect, affecting not only the grateful person and the recipient, but anyone who witnesses it. Introduce this chain reaction on a grand scale, and the effects become exponential. 

We applied this “science of thanks” to engage employees and attract talent for King’s College National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, one of the busiest NHS trusts in the UK. 

We developed a larger-than-life employee engagement campaign that would recognize employees, capture the attention of candidates, and showcase the Trust’s values. 

We captured images of 166 clinical and non-clinical staff members at all King‘s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust sites and collected 350 employee-submitted messages of thanks. Then, we plastered large-scale installations across Kings’ three main sites, including a huge projection onto the outside of the hospital at their central location. 

The campaign inspired renewed feelings of inclusion and engagement among staff and there was a sharp increase in recognition. 

“You’ve captured the people and heart of King’s and brought our values to life. The staff response to these images has been extraordinary and has created a real buy-in and the buzz that we were after.”

Nicole Ranger 
Chief Nurse & Executive Director of Midwifery, King’s College Hospital 

In addition to the employee engagement benefits, campaign assets were leveraged on a custom careers portal and in targeted recruitment marketing campaigns, generating a brilliant, diverse talent pool to provide outstanding care and continued innovation for King’s. 

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Addressing recruiting challenges and high turnover for a division of the world’s largest humanitarian network 

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Our client provides disaster relief, distributes international humanitarian aid, and supplies about 40% of the nation’s blood. 

When low hiring and retention rates hindered their ability to respond to emergencies, we deployed a full cycle recruiting program to facilitate over 2,000 annual hires for various roles, including blood collection specialists. 

We sourced candidates best suited for the unique schedule and demands of the in-scope positions, resulting in reduced turnover and increased employee satisfaction. What’s more? The program could easily scale to care for hiring needs in high and low volume periods. 

We greatly reduced the client’s time-to-start and achieved a 98% fill rate average for each hiring class, with extremely high client satisfaction. We even mobilized to source and hire 100 roles in 3 business days in response to a hurricane. 

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Covering hard-to-fill routes for the nation’s largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of essential medical supplies

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Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of essential medical supplies, offering over 335,000 medical products to meet every need. With 50+ distribution centers, 28 million square feet of warehousing and over 1900 MedTrans trucks across North America, Medline offers 1-day ship to 96% of the United States.

Medline relies on drivers to move essential medical supplies, equipment, and laundry from the warehouse to healthcare providers. Because MedTrans drivers interact directly with hospital staff in a medical environment, it is important that they are on-time, professional and courteous. They must be skilled at driving in any condition, including traffic and inclement weather, to deliver products that are essential for patient care.

When Medline needs top notch drivers to cover hard-to-fill routes in northern California, we are their first call. They know that we’ll supply drivers that can be trusted to deliver medical supplies on time, with a smile. We even staffed drivers to help Medline relocate their operations to a new state of the art distribution center in Tracy, CA. Over the span of our 18-year partnership, we have connected Medline with several drivers who made a lasting impression and went on to become permanent employees.

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Assessing candidates’ hard and soft skills to ensure the right cultural fit for a leading pediatric hospital

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Our client is ranked among top pediatric hospitals and is home to the world’s largest pediatric research facility. With over 40 clinical departments and more than 250 specialized clinical programs, the not-for-profit organization provides a complete range of care services for children of all ages.

Our client was looking to improve their candidate screening processes for clinical housekeepers, admissions, and customer service staff.

We deployed a recruiting program in which we worked closely with the client’s internal HR team, using their niche healthcare HR technology, to screen and present candidates who possessed the right mixture of hard and soft skills to ensure each potential hire was the right cultural fit for the organization.

At a pediatric hospital, everyone from clinical staff to housekeepers interacts with children suffering from illnesses and their families, and our recruitment team screened candidates carefully, looking for compassion, empathy, and the ability to work well with children.

The program resulted in 400 annual hires for our client, who has engaged us for recruitment support since 2015. Over the tenure of our partnership, we have supported various positions, including registered nurses, pharmacy, clinical management, and research roles.

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