Posts by Ron Hoppe
2020 – The Year of Direct Hire Nurse Domination
2020 could very well be the year of direct hire nurse domination. If there was only one thing for international nurses to take away from 2019, it was being reminded time and time again that all job offers are not created equal. Many nurse applicants who had staffing agency and travel nurse companies file their…
Read MoreIs Your Facility Suffering from a Recruitment Misdiagnosis?
Diagnosing a patient for a certain condition and treating them accordingly when the diagnosis is wrong to begin with, won’t achieve the desired treatment outcome. In fact, it might even be catastrophic. The same is true in the recruitment industry. Every day talent acquisition leaders are monitoring symptoms such as chronic vacancies, increasing reliance on…
Read MoreIs Premium Processing Right for Me?
Update: November 2023 – With the current U.S. visa bulletin retrogression, premium processing will not affect overall immigration timelines to the U.S., therefore there is little benefit to request it at this time. The offering of premium processing will be dependent on visa bulletin updates and job offers. When a U.S. immigration application is filed, it has…
Read MoreFive Nurse Staffing Challenges to Watch in 2019
The U.S. nursing shortage is having an immense impact on the medical field. But what’s causing the disparity between available jobs and qualified nurses in the U.S.? WorldWide HealthStaff Solutions has been helping hospitals and healthcare employers hire qualified international nurses for over 20 years, and we understand the underlying issues that contribute to this staffing shortage.…
Read MoreDACA Deadline Obsolete, Uncertainty Increasing For Dreamers
The original date the Trump administration set for the expiration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was March 5th, 2018. However, legal challenges and congressional inaction have delayed the end of the program, but it has not brought any relief to the nearly 800,000 Dreamers, the immigrants who are currently shielded from…
Read MoreWhat If the Nursing Shortage Is Not a Recruitment Issue?
Healthcare employers are confronted by an increasing shortage of experienced RNs. Recruiters, Talent Acquisition and HR professionals are using more sophisticated recruitment tactics and technology, investing more resources than ever before and yet desired outcomes are not being achieved. Even worse, most recruitment results in qualified applicants simply moving between employers to cash in on…
Read MoreUSCIS Puts American Workers First
The USCIS has announced when making site visits to H-1B petitioners and the worksites of H-1B employees they will focus on: • Validating employer business information;• Ratio of H-1B workers as compared to U.S. workers; and• Employers with H-1B workers working off-site at another company or location. The intention is to identify employers who are…
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