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Featured Education Resource for Employers

Featured Education Resource for Employers

Recruiting for Retention Part Four: Retaining for the Lifecycle of the Employee

In Part Four, we outline many practical strategies you can take toward successful retention efforts. Two key concepts that will aid you the most in your retention efforts? Flexibility and...
Nurse Practitioner Steven Barlow: Serving Rural Populations Far Apart

Nurse Practitioner Steven Barlow: Serving Rural Populations Far Apart

This three-part blog series features Steven Barlow, a certified family nurse practitioner whose job search through 3RNET led him to two very different rural populations - both of which he loves....
Opportunities that make physician life in rural areas better than ever

Opportunities that make physician life in rural areas better than ever

Georgia Scott, Senior Copywriter - PracticeLink

It is plainly—and not at all surprisingly—the right time to practice medicine in rural areas. Healthcare access in rural parts of the U.S. is an ongoing battle physician recruiters,...
Charting the Future

Charting the Future

The Growing Demand for Career Pathways in Healthcare

As healthcare organizations adapt to new technologies, patient needs, and regulatory changes, offering clear and supportive career paths for employees is crucial. This focus on career pathways is...
Featured Education Resource for Employers

Featured Education Resource for Employers

Recruiting for Retention Part Three: Matching and Committing

You’ve done the hard work and found a candidate you think may be a great fit for your position. Now comes the next step in recruiting them in order to retain them!   Interviewing in...
Featured Education Resource for Employers

Featured Education Resource for Employers

Recruiting for Retention Part Two: Marketing to and Finding Candidates

In today’s marketing climate, it is important to have a great virtual presence and that communication be candidate-focused. We have compiled some strategies to consider as you work to...
Featured Education Resource for Employers

Featured Education Resource for Employers

Recruiting for Retention Part One: Planning & Preparation

One of the most neglected parts of recruitment and retention efforts is planning and preparation.   That’s why 3RNET has, available through your 3RNET employer dashboard, a set of...
Employers: Digital Badges on 3RNET

Employers: Digital Badges on 3RNET

FAQs for safety net employers on how digital badges work on 3RNET.org

What are digital badges? How are they used on 3RNET? And what do they tell me, as an employer, about job seekers? 

Health Professionals: Digital Badges on 3RNET

Health Professionals: Digital Badges on 3RNET

FAQs on how badges work on 3RNET.org

3RNET currently offers two digital badge options to be added to your 3RNET profile: AHEC SCHOLARS and CRHCP CERTIFICATION. By adding a digital badge to your 3RNET profile, you can store and...
2023 Recruiting for Retention Academy Summary

2023 Recruiting for Retention Academy Summary

What Makes Your Organization Unique? Using Candidate Motivations to Strategically Recruit

​We wrapped up 2023 with our 6-part Recruiting for Retention Academy webinar series which highlighted the 3RNET’s Factors Guides, adapted from the Community Apgar Project developed by Dr....
3RNET 2023 Accomplishments

3RNET 2023 Accomplishments

Our Year In Review

Each year, we reflect on what we’ve accomplished toward our mission of improving health care in rural and underserved communities through the recruitment and retention of health...
PRISM Celebrates Ten Years of Informing and Informed Retention Collaboration

PRISM Celebrates Ten Years of Informing and Informed Retention Collaboration

The Provider Retention and Information System Management (PRISM) program is celebrating ten years and growing in 2023! To help celebrate this achievement, we’ve put together a timeline of...