The complimentary feedback from users of site – applicants and employers alike – is testament to how Hooper has successfully leveraged her deep knowledge of industry into a unique website and company. “First of its kind,” is type of phrase seen more than once, along with comments like “different from rest;” “original;” very helpful;” “thanks for this resource;” “user-friendly,” and “effective,” which all show up in voluminous feedback that NursingExecutives.com has received to date. By focusing on needs of both sides, and by creating a website and a service that seeks to comprehensively meet needs of both employees and recruiters, Hooper has achieved an unusual measure of success in troubled waters of healthcare employment. By focusing tightly on one problem, and offering a carefully-crafted solution, NursingExecutives.com has made an important contribution to field of healthcare employment, and one that may well provide a blueprint for others to follow.

Cheryl A. Hooper, CPC, is president of NursingExecutives.com based in Farmington, CT. She can be reached at 1-800-230-0710, or via email Cheryl at NursingExecutives.com

Neil Street is co-founder of Small Business Online, an internet marketing and web design company, based in Norwalk, CT. Email Neil at Small Business Online or call him at 203.299.0889

Your resignation is coming at an untimely moment; they are not prepared to replace you with someone who can step up and do your job. The cost of replacing you in dollars and effort (how many resumes will need to be read and people interviewed before they hire someone who they will need to train—AND they may have to pay a higher salary than what you were earning plus a fee to search firm for a person who doesn’t know what you know. Can you see it’s not about you, personally) is large.

At time you decide to change jobs, write down reasons why you want to leave—I’m bored. I want to make more money. My boss is a micromanager. I want to learn something new. I want to work closer to home—write down reasons and put them in a place where you can find them at time you give notice.

Then, before giving notice, find list and review it. Do not be seduced by emotional response you may receive. Remember, money they offer may only be your next raise pushed up a few months. Listen carefully to promises that are made and remember that nothing is being put into writing; it is just desperate effort to keep someone who was taken for granted for so long who they are now forced to remember they have underpaid, treated poorly and need to accomplish their objectives.

Few counteroffers should be considered, let alone accepted. I fully expect to see consultant’s resume online again in a few months because core issues that caused him to look for a job were not resolved.

Jeff Altman Concepts in Staffing jeffaltman@cisny.com

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