The Abbariao Difference

Nurse recruitment has traditionally been a good business to be in for a variety of reasons.  First of all, nurse recruitment paid (and still does) good recruiting fees.  Second, nurse employers found it advantageous and preferred to use recruiters to outsource their nursing staff requirements because it was actually cheaper and more efficient.  Thirdly, most nurses weren’t very strong in their job hunting skills so they also preferred to work through nurse recruitment outsourcing specialty agents. Read the rest of this entry »

Healthcare recruitment in the UK isn’t a growth industry but it is growing more than many other sectors of the economy.  As the average age of the UK population continues trend upward healthcare services becomes increasingly important.  Thus effective healthcare personnel recruitment also becomes more important. Read the rest of this entry »

Where are the jobs in the healthcare recruitment industry today?  If you’re interested in a high-demand, high-paying career in helping people maintain their health or regain their health, what are the best fields and specialties within the healthcare industry? Read the rest of this entry »

The healthcare recruitment industry is in a strange quandary right now.  On the one hand, there’s a big need for the kind of healthcare personnel that healthcare recruitment professionals recruit but on the other hand it’s becoming more and more difficult to get these healthcare professionals where they’re needed the most. Read the rest of this entry »

With the onset of undersupply of nurses in the United States, American healthcare facilities have been relying on international recruitment agencies to hire more nurses. In all counties around the world, it is the Philippines that has remained to be the top provider of healthcare professionals mainly because they speak English and have the cultural affinity, making adjusting and transitioning much smoother and quicker for the employer and the employee. But there is the danger that the recruitment agency a healthcare facility will transact with is not a POEA licensed recruitment firm from the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »

What exactly are POEA licensed recruitment companies in the Philippines? Why is it necessary to have a POEA license? POEA is an acronym for the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration. A license from this administration ensures that companies abide to the mandate and rules and regulations of the POEA itself. Licensing also means that there are non-POEA licensed recruitment companies in the Philippines, and these firms without a license are also without definite rules, regulations, and mandates. The danger is most especially evident when non-POEA licensed recruitment companies in the Philippines abuse their clients and the nurses that they recruit. Being the top provider of nurse in the US, American healthcare facilities have been heavily relying on the Philippines to provide the US with healthcare professionals. The preference for Filipinos is popular mainly because they speak good English and have the cultural affinity, making the adjustment and transition period much smoother and quicker for the employer and the employee’s part. But there is the danger that the recruitment agency a healthcare facility will transact with is not a POEA licensed recruitment company from the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »

The POEA, an acronym for the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, serves as a government organization that is responsible for optimizing the benefits of both the country’s overseas employment program. As a result, it helps abate the nursing undersupply crisis America is facing today. POEA includes the following functions: to respond to changing markets and economic condition and to strengthen the workers protection and regulatory components of the overseas employment program. Read the rest of this entry »

By the rate its going, it is estimated that by the year 2020 America would have about a million vacancies in their healthcare facilities. To cope with this problem, US hospitals and clinics have relied heavily on international recruitment strategies. More than any country out there, it is the Philippines that remains to be the top provider of nurses for the United States. This for a variety of reasons: language (Filipinos are good in speaking in English), cultural affinity (with the US standpoint), and medical system in which the nurses were trained (patterned on the American medical system). In order for healthcare facilities to hire nurses from this country, they need to transact with a POEA licensed recruiter from the Philippines. It is necessary that healthcare facilities only hire nurses from POEA licensed recruiters in the Philippines to ensure that the processes of these recruiters are regulated. Read the rest of this entry »

Nurses in the Philippines have become dependent on overseas nurse recruitment in the Philippines for good healthcare jobs in the United States. And because the medical system of the Philippines is based on that of the United States, the training that Filipino nurses have in the country is a good experience and preparation for a good healthcare job abroad. Aside from this, Filipinos are also known to speak good English and adapt to foreign culture very well. Nurse recruiters in the Philippines want to take advantage of these good qualities because aside from it providing good business, thousands of registered nurses are given hope for a good future through nursing jobs in the United States, thus, the growth in overseas nurse recruitment in the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »

The Philippines has become the number one provider of nurses in the United States. This is because nurses from the Philippines have the reputation of being committed to their profession. Filipino nurses are also compassionate, hardworking and, loyal – which are the key attributes health care facilities are looking for in nurses. And with the ever-decreasing health care professionals in the United States, there is no reason not to continue getting nurses from overseas nurse recruitment firms in the Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »