by: Smartbox
Topics: dental practice growth, dental web marketing, educational, More and Better Patients, hiring dental assistants
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A Minute (Or Two) With Colin Receveur, Episode 67
- Where have all the good dental team members gone? Well, fact is they're still out there.
- But a large majority of practices that are hiring are having a really tough time attracting them.
- According to the ADA Health Policy Institute as of October, about one third – 33% – of dental practices are trying to hire a hygienist and about a quarter of those practices are actually recruiting them.
- Roughly four fifths, or 80%, of practices are having a lot of trouble finding hygienists right now.
-Some 70% report that finding assistants is very or extremely challenging.
- Now, no one knows for sure, but the old phrase, Once bitten, twice shy, might apply here.
- Dental practices are among the most stable businesses out there.
- And it probably came as a shock to you and your team if you had to shut down and furlough team members.
- It's not surprising that people aren't eager to put themselves in a position to go through that again.
-So what can you do?
- Well, the short answer is to provide reassurance in your hiring ads, your social media, using terms like stable or successful, thriving, upbeat.
- Be optimistic about it, no one wants to come join a dwindling practice.
- If your situation is such that you can continue to pay your staff when your practice isn't making money, find ways to emphasize that.
- Emphasize how well your team was taken care of during the shutdown.
- There's more to hiring really good team members than just salary; that's usually fourth or fifth on the list of what great employees are looking for.
- And I'll tell you that in my next podcast.
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