Hands-On Physician Practice Management

Management Recruiting Assistance

Southwind Recruiting Assistance Identifies and Prequalifies the Best Physician Practice Management Talent

As a value added benefit to its clients, Southwind provides the following limited recruitment assistance in support of client efforts to identify, qualify, recruit and hire key physician practice management executive roles.

Circulating the Employment Opportunity within the Southwind Network

Southwind will circulate an approved position specification or an abbreviated version thereof to its network of contacts. We will typically not identify the client in our wider circulation of this opportunity. All inquires will be directed to our recruitment office through a specially designated email address such as "operationsVP@advisory.com."

Screening Qualifications via Resume Review & Selected Telephone Contact

We will screen submitted resumes and make an initial determination as to whether the candidates meet qualifications. We will contact qualified applicants via telephone (typically five to seven are deemed qualified) and conduct a telephone interview to further explore and validate the candidate's qualifications, willingness to consider the location, acceptability of the compensation range, etc.

ProfileXT™: Internet-based Survey Instrument

From the telephone interviews we will identify two to four candidates that we believe are best suited to the position. We will ask these candidates to complete a proprietary, internet based survey instrument that will score their responses on a scale of one to ten for fourteen areas of qualification and six interest level areas.

Telephone Contact with Primary & Secondary References

In addition, we will contact references provided by the candidate via telephone to validate qualifications and document the reference's subjective judgment regarding the candidates' strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for development. We will also contact one or two secondary references, those identified through the primary references, or other sources as opposed to being identified by the candidate.

Finalist Candidate Profiles Delivered within 45 days

Within 30-45 days of initiating this effort, you will receive via email the following documents related to our efforts for each of the finalist candidates:

Resume
Internet Profile Results
Documented References
Any other relevant information gleaned from our telephone contact with the candidate

Southwind recruitment assistance is designed to supplement internal search efforts to identify and pre-qualify physician practice management executives. Our assistance is not designed to replace an aggressive search effort such as is the case in a traditional "retained search" agreement. While there are no guarantees that you will hire Southwind identified candidates, the Southwind national network of key contacts will be exploited to surface and pre-qualify appropriate candidates for this position that are worthy of your time.