November 9, 2011 Tim Tolan
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We in the search business work on assignments that are specific to the needs of our clients. Each assignment is unique, and while some functional
November 3, 2011
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Twice in the last six months, I have accepted the resignation of an IT director. In both cases, they liked working at Edward, but had received jobs with a bigger scope, in a bigger organization, for a bigger salary.
October 25, 2011 Tim Tolan
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It's hard to come up with the best way to describe the feelings you have when it's time to call it quits and declare your intentions to those that count on you every day. Some can't sleep the night before or become physically ill during the days that lead up to a resignation.
August 22, 2011 Mark Hagland
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Anyone who’s been paying attention in the past couple of years already knows that hospitals and physicians have been busy rushing into physician employment contracts, in the second big wave of physician hiring, which has emerged a decade and a half after the first MD employment wave.
August 20, 2011 Tim Tolan
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I am NEVER surprised when we uncover dirty laundry or perceived hidden skeletons from a candidate’s background report. I’ve seen it all. From previous convictions for misdemeanors and felonies ranging from assault and battery to drug possession to stupid college public drunkenness convictions.
July 31, 2011 Tim Tolan
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In business, many argue that titles help employees understand who is in charge of what areas and who they need to go to for help, guidance and their own roadmap of what assignments they need to be working on. In general many healthcare IT organizations in different parts of the country have they own set of titles - sometimes less in stature to some, even though the responsibilities are identical. I say, get over it. No big deal.
July 20, 2011 Tim Tolan
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Tim Tolan Most hiring managers are always in search of “the perfect fit” when filling a critical position opening. After all, for many
July 14, 2011 Tim Tolan
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I was talking with a very solid CIO last week—a real 'A' Player—about an opportunity we're working on. We'd spoken (many times) before so I already knew his credentials, but I wanted to schedule some time the following week to have an in-depth conversation about the role and location, and also to understand where he was as far as evaluating the opportunity.
May 9, 2011 Tim Tolan
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Over the years I've learned that major gaps in a resume are often due to big life changes. Putting in black and white - memorializing the reasons - why there's a gap by only adds to the pain, and many candidates will omit the details for deeply personal reasons. Basically, it just hurts too much to see the details and share them with the rest of the world.
May 4, 2011 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Tim Tolan, senior partner at Sanford Rose Associates Healthcare IT Practice, and our resident career columnist, spoke with HCI Associate Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo in this podcast about his secrets for attracting talent and evaluating next career steps. His "Career Paths" column recently won an award from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) for best regular column.
January 31, 2011 Mark Hagland
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CIOs, CEOs, and other senior executives in hospital organizations are pursuing a number of approaches to leverage clinical and other key data in order to analyze staffing needs, and are working to optimize staffing, as they address the single biggest operating cost for most hospitals: labor.
April 22, 2010 Daphne Lawrence
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In hospitals today, resources (human, financial, technological, and other) as tight as ever. At the same time, hospital leaders are facing the need to build out to support burgeoning inpatient care, and many are turning increasingly toward specialized information technology solutions as they move forward on new construction projects nationwide.
