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How to Choose the Right Healthcare Talent Solution

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It’s no secret that healthcare systems are facing near-historic levels of staffing shortages. Entry-level roles, such as medical assistants, are becoming harder to find, increasing the strain on health teams that are already overworked. With traditional recruitment practices failing to keep pace, it’s clear that newer, more robust healthcare talent solutions are needed.

Here are a few steps to help you address this pressure while continuing to provide quality care.

1. Assess Your Staffing Gaps

You can’t solve a staffing challenge you haven’t clearly defined. An audit of your staffing levels can help you identify the departments or roles that need additional support. Find areas where employees are the most strained and focus your attention there. 

2. Prioritize Scalability

A strong staffing solution is one that continually adapts to your organization. Even if you were to resolve your immediate staffing troubles, would that be the definitive end to your problems? As your operations scale, you’ll inevitably need to find new talent and different forms of training to fill that gap. A staffing solution that fails to scale with your organization’s growth is no solution at all. 

3. Look for Technologically Enhanced Training

High-quality healthcare talent solutions need to do more than just source staff to fill your vacancies. Whoever fills those openings needs to understand the work environment they’re entering beforehand. That’s exactly why organizations like MedCerts Partner Solutions are so beneficial. 

MedCerts offers detailed training programs specific to the vacancies that need to be covered and a catalog of partnership models to fit your exact needs. Data-driven technology allows you to create roadmaps of the skill sets your staff can train themselves in to fill future vacancies. This will create a flexible, internally mobile staffing structure that can respond to problems as they arise. 

4. Work With Partners Who Have Good Track Records

Many organizations offer staffing solutions, but not all of them have the experience you need. Rather than taking them at their word, ask potential partners for hard metrics like: 

  • Completion rates
  • Placement rates
  • Employer satisfaction with their on-the-job knowledge 

Due diligence goes a long way when choosing a staffing partner. Ask them for case studies or testimonials that explain the kind of work they’ve done for companies like yours. That can give you a better understanding of whether the company is worth moving forward with. 

Choosing MedCerts as Your Partner in Strategic Staffing

When you work with MedCerts, you’ll collaborate with a team known for extensive academic and healthcare partnerships. Our partnership models create highly tailored student pipelines for various career paths, preparing potential talent to immediately take on mission-critical roles. This way, candidates are able to hit the ground running on day one, making things as seamless as possible for their employer. When it comes to healthcare staffing, thinking ahead is crucial. A partner like MedCerts will help you anticipate your organization’s goals and prepare you for every moment.

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Written by

Jennifer Kolb

National Director of Workforce Development

As MedCerts National Director of Workforce Development, Jennifer Kolb is responsible for overseeing strategy and business development efforts at MedCerts with an emphasis on the k-career pipeline.

Prior to MedCerts, Jennifer served in several leadership positions at Tallo and Hawkes Learning where she built and lead sales and marketing, new product launches, technology development updates and an entire product relaunch to be ADA compliant.

Jennifer has spent a decade within the workforce industry working with educators, state leaders, business and industry officials, post-secondary institutions and grant organizations from across the country, all with the mission of bettering people’s lives. Coming from a long line of educators and with a business-centered mindset, Jen is passionate about student success and cultivating creative strategies for ensuring all talent has access to educational and career-related opportunities.

Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Psychology with a focus in business management from Clemson University.

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