In speeches on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump promised to dismantle much of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. On February 3, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Treasury Department to make legislative recommendations for reform within 120 days. The order also delays implementation of the fiduciary…

It’s a miracle, but busy season is over! It’s high time you handed in your resignation and looked for greener pastures. Ok, that was a bit corny, wasn’t it? But, wait–before you roll your eyes, there’s one thing we’d like to ask you. If we told you that a particular consulting company wants to pay CPAs from one of the Big…

In Part 3: Recruiting Quality Patient Volunteers For Medical Research, we’re going to discuss marketing strategies that work. Leveraging Social Media To Recruit Volunteers. It has been reported that researchers spend nearly a third of their time on recruitment and enrollment. Yet, studies show that more than 70% of all nationwide trials fail to recruit enough volunteers for their projects….

In Part 2: Recruiting Quality Patient Volunteers For Medical Research, we’re going to discuss the topic of payments and its relevance to the recruitment effort. FDA Policy On Payments. The FDA is committed to the welfare of subject volunteers in clinical trials. As has already been stated, many participants are willing to expose themselves to great risk in…

For the past few decades, there has been a fairly consistent flow of books, movies, articles, editorials, blog posts, cartoons and more showing a bleak future for just about every profession. They all say the same thing: computers are going to take over. They can do things better and faster. And that last bit is…

Subject recruitment is an often overlooked element of a successful research study. Failure to recruit sufficient participants can be very disruptive to the study timeline, and in some cases, can be the reason for ending the trial. Recruiting quality volunteers is not easy, because some stereotypes are true for a reason. Patients who tend to…

As America navigates political change, many experts are preparing for corresponding adjustments within the health-care industry. Although there is much confusion about how a Trump administration will implement an ACA (Affordable Care Act) repeal, it’s safe to say that any new changes will affect employment levels among nurses, doctors, phlebotomists, and medical assistants. Today, we’ll…

It’s a proven fact that good hires lead to fewer headaches for your human resources team. However, attracting great talent is a challenge. So, what’s a manager to do? Below, we list 5 steps to attracting high-caliber temporary staff that’s guaranteed to make life easier for you. 1) Make sure your job posting is up…

The healthcare landscape is changing quickly, and sometimes it seems impossible to keep up. If you’re responsible for finding temporary medical staff in New Jersey, you know that attracting the right per diem candidates is easier said than done. How can you find the people you need to meet the needs of your patients? Here…

Even extroverts will admit that networking can be challenging — simply because it requires continuous work and effort. What is networking? I define it as creating a group of acquaintances and associates who communicate regularly for everyone’s mutual benefit. A network can include almost anyone — family, friends, past acquaintances, current colleagues, and potential colleagues…

I often hear candidates who have been actively searching and have been on the job market for a long time say something like this: ” Several recruiters have invited me to their offices to discuss my experience and future career goals. They seemed genuinely impressed with my resume, but then I never heard from them…

When something nonsensical happens, something I can’t understand no matter how hard I try, I often say it “cracks my brain.” Do you know this feeling? Lately, what cracks my brain more and more are candidates who don’t respond to expressions of interest about a job opening. Or I should say, candidates do respond, but…

Okay, now that I have your attention . . . I want to talk about the issue of chasing higher pay versus staying with one company in the early years of your career. (Sorry, folks, this has absolutely nothing to do with Mexico.) I recently received a response from a candidate that said, “$100k jobs…

I often notice on the resumes of candidates who have fifteen or more years of work experience that the dates are missing. Right away, I wonder, why are they missing? Frankly, what I guess is that the candidate must have been at least a teenager when the Brady Bunch originally aired. They are hiding their…