Healthcare Leadership Trends for 2025
Time to fill A widely followed marker of recruiting challenges is the time it takes to fill vacancies. Figure 11 shows how organizations are faring relative to previous periods. Those experiencing fill times that are somewhat or much longer fell to 43% from 49% last year. That is still a substantial bloc of providers incurring the cost and time penalties that can accrue from lengthier recruiting. The “about the same” response dominated at 45%.
LENGHT OF TIME TO FILL EXECUTIVE VACANCIES COMPARED TO RECENT YEARS
3%
8% 45% 36% 7%
MUCH SHORTER
SOMEWHAT SHORTER
ABOUT THE SAME
SOMEWHAT LONGER
MUCH LONGER
Figure 11
Improving recruiting What are the primary tactics to address the leadership recruiting difficulties? With multiple responses allowed, survey respondents described strong movement on several fronts:
40%
EXPANDED RECRUITING SCOPE
39%
GREATER RELIANCE ON OUTSIDE EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRMS
INCREASED COMPENSATION PACKAGES
37%
36%
INCREASED INTERNAL HR RESOURCES ENHANCED RECRUITING PROCESS
28%
28%
SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER USE OF TECHN OLOGY
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
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