Hire to Thrive
Where home care hiring is reimagined. Join Carework Founder and CEO Rachel Gartner every Wednesday to hear everything your home care agency needs to know about caregiver recruiting. With national data on home care hiring, insight from thought leaders across the U.S., and more, Rachel will help your team meet your hiring goals. If you need more hires to thrive, you're in the right place.
Episodes
16 episodes
Boost your applicant-to-hire conversion rate
Rachel, CEO of Carework, discusses the issue of requiring documents before the interview in the home care agency recruiting process. She shares practical strategies to reduce applicant drop-offs, remove unnecessary barriers, and ...
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26:31
Three main causes of the hiring bottleneck
Rachel discusses the recruiting bottleneck that many home care agencies face, which hinders their growth. She identifies three main causes of the bottleneck: not enough staff to handle the increase in applicant volume, a lack of a foundat...
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23:09
4 Tips To Create Awesome Job Ads
Rachel Gartner, CEO and Founder of Carework, tackles the costly mistake of reusing old job ads for home care agencies. Discover why updating and customizing your job ads is essential to attract top talent. Rachel shares examples of...
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25:28
Building a Caregiver-First Hiring Process
Rachel Gartner discusses the importance of a caregiver-first mindset in the hiring process for home care agencies. She emphasizes the need to center the caregiver's needs and experience, rather than focusing on weeding out potential bad hires. ...
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17:57
Home Care Hiring: Virtual Or In-Person Interviews? Let's Talk About It!
In this conversation, Rachel Gartner discusses the benefits of remote versus in-person interviews for agencies. She emphasizes the importance of looking at data points such as interview show-up rates and the percentage of applicants completing ...
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21:29
Setting Goals for Success: A Guide for Home Care Agencies Setting Goals in 2024
Rachel Gartner is the founder and CEO of Carework, a company that provides support and training for home care agencies. With her expertise in home care recruiting, Rachel helps agencies set and achieve their goals to thrive in the industry....
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20:56
Going from Burnout to Balance: Promoting Well-Being in the Home Care Industry
Rachel Gartner, founder and CEO of Carework discusses the importance of promoting well-being in the home care industry and shares personal experiences of burnout. She emphasizes the need for compassion and offers strategies to support caregiver...
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19:33
Building Career Paths: Caregiver Career Paths to Improve Retention and Growth in Home Care Agencies
"We want to show them their future with your agency."Rachel Gartner discusses the importance of creating career paths for caregivers in the home care industry. Rachel emphasizes the need to invest in caregivers' long-term goals and...
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24:58
Unlocking Growth: Scaleable Recruiting & Retention Pt. 2
In this episode of the Hire to Thrive podcast, Rachel Gartner discusses the importance of having a scalable recruiting and retention process for home care agencies. She emphasizes the need to understand the financial value of each caregiver hir...
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15:10
Unlocking Growth: Scaleable Recruiting & Retention
Ever pondered on how to revolutionize your caregiver recruitment process? We're about to flip the script here on Hire to Thrive, shifting the spotlight from an agency-first to a caregiver-first approach. We challenge you not just to hear us out...
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32:59
The Ripple Effect: How Your Hiring Process Impacts Caregiver Retention
In this episode of the Hire to Thrive podcast, Rachel Gartner discusses the importance of starting the retention process from the hiring stage. She emphasizes that waiting until after caregivers are hired is too late to focus on retention. Rach...
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16:28
The ROI of Hiring Incentives for Caregivers: Are They Worth It?
In this episode of the Hire to Thrive podcast, Rachel Gartner, CEO of CareWork, discusses how to improve recruiting results for home care agencies through sign-on and referral bonuses. She emphasizes the importance of tracking metrics to evalua...
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11:02
Marketing Strategies for Recruiting and Retention Pt. 2
Guest Speaker Nick Bonitatibus owner of Digital Champions emphasizes the importance of agencies showcasing their unique story and utilizing video for recruitment, retention, and marketing in the home care industry.To see the visuals...
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36:14
Marketing Strategies for Recruiting and Retention Pt. 1
The host Rachel Gartner CEO of Carework introduces her guest Nick Bonitatibus owner of Digital Champions to talk about how marketing is a crucial part of recruiting and retaining caregivers in the home care industry. Nick emphasizes the importa...
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32:53
4 Metrics Home Care Agencies Must be Tracking
If you're trying to make your recruiting process more data-based (and you should be), you need to be tracking these four recruiting metrics! In this episode, Rachel breaks down the most important data that you need to track, h...
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4 Common Recruiting Mistakes Home Care Agencies Make
Is your home care agency struggling to hire more caregivers?If you're struggling to grow your agency and provide the care your community needs, you might be making one of these four common mistakes we've seen in home care recruiting.
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Episode 1
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