IHM and Hudson join forces to provide a career portal for the exclusive use of healthcare managers

Ask any high achieving manager what the secret of their success is, and chances are they will tell you that they manage to perform outstanding work because they have an outstanding team working with them. But being in the position to put together, or actually be a part of,an outstanding team of workers can sometimes be fraught with diffi culties of its own. The unprecedented growth in the health sector can be blamed for this,making recruiting, developing and keeping your people talent,in a shrinking skill pool, an increasingly difficult challenge. So,great staff are a vital key to your organisation ís success,but how do employers and workers find efficient and effective resources to point them in the direction of the right candidates or towards the right positions?

In an effort to answer all these needs, the IHM and Hudson Global resources partnership,have come together to provide a career portal for the exclusive use of healthcare managers and employers. Providing managers and Trusts the best chance to offer and find the right resources for the right job,the IHM TalentBase offers a complete service to both the healthcare employer and employee. Offering a unique ëshared risk í recruitment and consultancy service
to healthcare professionals across all business sectors,in a well-managed talent-based structure,the possibilities are endless. Organisations will be able to build relationships with people and track them throughout their professional development.

They can effectively take control of the supply chain and recruitment process by using these new technologies.So how will you benefit?
When you register as a candidate you will have:

Access to a concentrated and specific job market highlighting a range of senior appointments across industry sectors

The option to build a career portfolio and assess your skills against professional core competencies

Access to benefi ts like candidate profiles,assistance with CV writing, mentoring,self-assessment tools and career advice

The invaluable opportunity to contact other members and to receive information about forthcoming industry events and updates

Knowing how and where you can add value to an organisation is crucial -you have to make changes for improvement
and be able to measure and define any improvement.By staying focused and making progress against organisational
milestones you can better appreciate where you ëfit in í.However,to avoid ups and downs in your confidence -which affects performance -a personal career plan can be a great help in surviving a climate of constant change.Based on best practice models,this helps candidates to define their strengths and areas for development and measure competence-based improvement and professional success
There are huge benefits,as well,when you register as an employer.You will:

Receive personal assistance with writing job specifications

The options to use a core competency framework to objectively select candidates

Be able to post job vacancies

Have access to interviewing services for screening and
filtering candidate applications ñ a sure way to find the right candidate and of course save yourself and your organisation time and money. This partnership is a perfect example of an innovative way in which industry bodies and commercial organisations are working together to provide sophisticated but practical solutions for talent management as well as helping to address the underlying and long-term shortage of people and skills.

This IHM-Hudson partnership is supported by Hire.com Enterprises Talent Management solution from Stepstone,and offers the industry ís most comprehensive healthcare recruitment resource to date. Log on to www.ihm.org.uk and see what ís on offer for you.