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.Summary:Rachel Gartner, founder and CEO of Carework, shares valuable insights on setting goals for home care agencies in 2024. She emphasizes the importance of tracking recruiting metrics and setting quantifiable goals based on data. Rachel also highlights ...
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 caregivers and office staff. These strategies include recognizing signs of burnout, conducting regular check-ins, providing stress management training, and managing workloads effectively. Rachel highlights the significance of leading with compassion and taking c...
"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 show them a vision for their future with the agency. By providing a clear career path, agencies can increase caregiver engagement, promote from within, and build a caregiver-first mindset and culture. Rachel advises agencies to create a well-defined career path, sh...
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 hire and set agency growth goals based on average hours worked per hire. Rachel also highlights the importance of using metrics as levers to track progress and make data-driven decisions. She provides insights on how to scale retention by implementing effe...
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, but to take action. You'll discover how to measure and improve each step of the hiring process, putting the needs of the caregiver at the forefront. We've got an enlightening workshop and a handy PDF for you to follow along and bring these insights in...
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. Rachel provides insights on how agencies can be intentional about retaining caregivers by addressing retention early on, agencies can ensure a sustainable and successful hiring process. If you're looking to hire more caregivers, Carework can help. Lear...
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 evaluate the return on investment (ROI) for hiring incentives and suggests tracking the number of applicants, interviews, hires, and the cost of the source. By doing so, home care agencies can better measure the effectiveness of their hiring incentives and ma...
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 click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbMkUG2S60&t=2972sIf you'd like to learn how to use digital marketing to grow your home care agency, you can connect with Nick at https://www.thedigitalchamps.com/If you're looking to hire more caregivers, Care...
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 importance of taking actionable steps and converting leads. He also explains how to give your agency a unique brand, setting it apart from the rest.To see the visuals click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbMkUG2S60&t=2972sIf you'd like to lear...
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, how frequently to track it, and what it means for your agency.https://www.careworkus.com/post/4-metrics-home-care-agencies-must-be-tracking
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.Join Rachel today to learn what these four mistakes are, and how you can fix them! Yes, there is a massive caregiver shortage, but there's also a lot we can do to get better at recruiting and improve access to care. Better recruiting, better care.