

Tammy: Healthcare HR provides a range of opportunities to progress, which includes payroll, benefits, compensation, recruiting, and human resources. Is there anything you’d like to highlight about working in Healthcare HR? In my role, I work closely with operational leaders and talent acquisition to develop plans to mitigate these challenges and look for innovative solutions to meet the staffing requirements. While this expands the options for the job seeker, it can be challenging for staffing site locations.
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That, combined with the much smaller cohorts of younger generations, has really strained recruiting efforts, and driven up salary demands.īeth: Post-COVID, many behavioral health professional workplace location options have moved to a tele-work environment.

The pandemic induced early retirement of so many baby boomers, which greatly affected the talent pool. Karen: In recent years with the pandemic and rapidly changing economic environment, it has been challenging to keep up with the market with respect to the ability to attract and retain talent. The biggest challenge that I face in my profession is having to chase after employees to submit their timecards for pay processing. Tammy: Working in payroll can be challenging at times but can also be immensely rewarding. What are some challenges you face in this profession and how do you overcome them? I most enjoy providing HR consultation to leaders across the employee experience from organizational design informing staffing solutioning of new business to complex employee relations and retention areas. That combined with my love for mathematics and compensation attracted me to HR and compensation roles in healthcare.īeth: Magellan Federal HR is a third career for me and a great fit following directing federal behavioral health contracts and an Air Force clinical social work career. Karen: I have always been interested in medicine, physiology, health, fitness, and wellbeing. That makes both me and the employees happy! The most rewarding aspect of working in this field is knowing that the company’s biggest asset, our employees, are paid correctly and on time. From my understanding, across the board at all companies I’ve ever worked for, payroll is the most important and vital department in the company. Tammy: I love working with numbers, so payroll is natural for me and exciting.

