10 Nov A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE AND COVER STAFF LEAVE
There’s no denying that employee absences can have a disruptive impact on your practice. No matter how genuine their reason or deserving the employee is of taking a break, ensuring that their shifts are covered by reliable competent staff typically comes down to the luck of the draw from your recruitment agency.
But now with today’s new technologies, apps like ANCI allow practices to take temporary recruiting into their own hands.
Why Agencies Don’t Always Work
Most dental practices simply don’t have the resources to fully manage short term recruiting in-house. There can be significant costs and efforts associated with maintaining an ancillary staff network, which means it’s often easier to outsource to a labour hire or recruitment agency.
The downside to this approach is that the fees are high, and you just have to trust that the agency will find the right person with the right combination of skill, experience and cultural fit. Even when they get all those aspects right, there’s usually no easy way to retain a relationship with an applicant in case you want to invite them back for another assignment later.
Your New Ancillary Workforce Assistant
With the ANCI app, you can connect directly with experienced individuals who can fill your shifts at short notice. You get to control all the elements of the recruitment process, from setting the hourly rate, to choosing which available job seeker is placed in your practice.
You don’t even have to worry about pay roll for the temporary team member – ANCI’s secure and easy to use platform handles time sheets and once you’ve approved the completion of the assignment, it will even automatically pay the team member via your nominated credit card.
ANCI isn’t just more flexible and user friendly than a recruitment agency, it’s also more cost effective. You only pay 15% of the total wages paid to use the service. With some agencies charging up to double the hourly rate to fill your short-term staffing requirements, it makes better business sense to manage your ancillary workforce with new peer-to-peer solutions such as ANCI.
A Faster Way to Fill Your Roster
Whether it’s planned or unplanned leave; one shift or longer term, apps like ANCI can relieve the pressure of hiring temporary workers quickly. Setting up a profile for your practice can be completed within a couple of minutes and once registered, you can post your vacancies straight away.
It’s just as quick and easy to review potential candidates. Each user has a profile that lets you make an informed decision about who will be filling your short-term role.
Job seekers can also only view and apply for your role if they match your criteria, which means you won’t lose valuable time sifting through details of people who aren’t suitable for what your practice needs.
By cutting out the middle man and liaising directly with the potential candidate, you can quickly and easily fill temporary positions in less time that it takes to get confirmation from your recruitment agency that they are even able to assist with your vacancy.
Trusted Temporary Workers with Peer Reviews
Recruiters can get it wrong when finding the right skillset for your practice. While they usually do thorough reference and background checks on potential candidates, there’s often no way to verify the authenticity of someone’s referee or check they actually have the skills they say they do. What they don’t do, which ANCI does, is validate each candidate through peer reviews as these are proven to work better than reference checks.
All ANCI workforce users have a profile which outlines their qualifications, skills and experience which lets you assess at a glance whether the candidate has the qualities you’re seeking. Once temporary staff have completed an assignment, your practice is invited to leave public feedback on their profile so that your colleagues can review peer comments and recommendations prior to hiring the same job seeker at their practice.
This means that all job seeker reviews are from verified, registered users with whom the job seeker has previously worked, therefore allowing you to get a real sense of the worker rather than having to trust a quick recruitment agency background check.
Build Your Own Flexible Team
One of the biggest frustrations that practices share about their experiences with recruitment agencies is the inability to build relationships with and re-engage great short-term staff. While you can request to have the same person back next time you need them, there are no guarantees and very rarely will you have the same person placed twice.
Because ANCI lets you communicate directly with the short-term staff, you can easily reach out to them again next time you need a temporary position filled.
Say Goodbye to Leave Stress
Managers and supervisors often feel a sense of dread when one of their staff members presents a leave request, because they know that the absence is going to have an impact on the whole business.
ANCI offers a smarter, more efficient way to ensure you have full people power whenever someone is away.
Start Today
To start using ANCI, simply download the app from the app store and register your business profile. There’s no paperwork, no purchase orders and no need to meet with agencies or negotiate contracts. Once you have the app on your phone, the power to effectively manage coverage, while your rostered staff are away, is in your hands.
Have you experienced the stress of covering staff positions at short notice? We would love to hear your experiences in the comments below.
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