What’s skills-based hiring and why is it trending in 2024?
By
Julie Rupenski
Feb 27, 2024
In today’s job market, employers who continue to hire for education, degrees, titles and experience before skills may be missing out on top talent. For that reason, “skills-based hiring”...
How to navigate the rising tide of caregiver-client poaching
By
Adam Andrew Chambers
Jan 11, 2024
The home care industry is currently grappling with a serious challenge: the escalating poaching of caregivers by their clients.
11 strategies to speed up your hiring process
By
Julie Rupenski
Dec 12, 2023
Today’s workplace and workforce are constantly evolving. With it, the way we recruit, hire and retain top talent. To keep up with these changes, long-term care leaders must rise to the occasion and make...
Supporting caregivers’ physical and mental health for retention, on-the-job satisfaction
By
Lance A. Slatton
Nov 28, 2023
Having supports in place to support caregivers’ physical and mental health are key for both retention and work satisfaction. Without this, home care companies are facing an ever-greater loss as the mass...
Setting your home care recruitment apart in a sea of sameness
By
Adam Andrew Chambers
Nov 09, 2023
The home care recruitment landscape is a complex and ever-changing one. With the aging population and the growing demand for your services, the need for qualified caregivers is greater than ever before....
Nourish and embrace DEI values, home care panel offers
By
Liza Berger
Oct 26, 2023
A diverse home care workplace where employees feel valued and respected is critical, given today’s workforce shortage. That means sometimes ditching the client who has unreasonable caregiver profile...
New report reveals caregivers’ greatest needs: Training, education, resources
By
Adam Healy
Oct 12, 2023
NAHC and MissionCare uncovered persistent challenges faced by direct care workers, including low pay, racism and a lack of training.
PHI: U.S. needs to enact policies to support immigrants’ presence in direct care
By
Liza Berger
Oct 10, 2023
To help boost the number of immigrants in direct care jobs, the United States should create pathways to citizenship for undocumented workers and special “caregiver visas” that allow immigrants to work...
PHI: Home care workforce is expected to be fastest-growing profession between 2021 and 2031
By
Adam Healy
Sep 15, 2023
The home care industry is expected to add nearly 1 million jobs by 2031, relieving some of the well-known strains home care employees face.
Nevada home care workers’ union enrollment hits high bar
By
Adam Healy
Sep 01, 2023
This Labor Day, workers in one state may be celebrating more than usual. More than 1,000 home care workers in Nevada have voted to join the Service Employees International Union Local 1107 since March...