Innovative Relocation for Healthcare Workers

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. Which is why, as the healthcare talent war rages on, hospitals are actively seeking inventive recruiting solutions. Well, guess what? Relocation benefits are essential to healthcare recruiting—and in the last decade, the relocation world has been transformed by innovation. Specifically, technological innovation.   

Ironically, a good chunk of the healthcare industry has yet to take advantage of these technological advancements, despite the fact that they offer employers a distinct competitive edge. Although most healthcare organizations do offer relocation benefits, many continue to do it the old-school way. That is, slowly. Laboriously. Manually. Expensively. 

In other words, a field that prides itself on its amazing, life-saving technological developments has been surprisingly slow to embrace advances in relocation technology. If your healthcare organization is among the holdouts, here’s what you need to know—and why there’s never been a better time to make the leap. 

What Is Tech-Based Relocation, Exactly?

Up until about the last 15 years, healthcare employers had three relocation options:

• Offer relocating new hires a lump sum to move, and leave it up to them to figure it out themselves—an incredibly stressful (sometimes unsuccessful) experience for employees.
• Hire a relocation management company to help employees make their moving arrangements, working one-in-one with relocation consultants—an expensive, intensive process. 
• Provide in-house relocation support—another labor-intensive undertaking that created headaches and liability for healthcare employers that already have plenty of that to deal with. 

Then, the first tech-based relocation solution burst on the scene. Instead of drowning relocating employees in a deluge of files, binders, voicemails and endless, back-and-forth conversations with relocation consultants, new hires could easily plan and manage their relocation online—guided step-by-step through via a personalized relocation portal.  

Of course, live specialists were (and are) available to help out whenever needed—which is just how relocating employees like it. After all, as digital natives, most professionals prefer to do things electronically, on their own terms, rather than be dependent on someone else. 

That’s why tech-based relocation providers earn consistently high satisfaction scores from the employees—and employers—who use their platforms.     

And that’s just the beginning.