3 Tips for Finding Your Next Interim Acute Assignment

You’re an experienced interim leader in healthcare, having served acute facilities in crucial leadership positions as they searched for permanent replacements. You understand the need to be a thought leader and industry expert. You keep up with the most effective strategies and the rapidly changing regulatory environment. And now you’re ready for your next assignment as a director of case management, an interim healthcare CFO, or maybe a position as a nursing officer.

How do you find the best interim leadership position for your unique skillset? Plug these tips into your specific situation and keep your traveling bags handy.

Tap your existing network

Throughout your career, you’ve likely amassed quite a network across various organizations, possibly across a large geographical area. That’s one of the great perks of interim work—the extensive connections one can accumulate. So, peruse your LinkedIn account to stay connected to the HR personnel, management team members, and peers whose paths have intercepted with yours.

• Who is in the area you’d like to work in next?
• Whose specific connection matches the leadership role you’d next like to tackle?

Consider an email message or even a video call to reconnect, catch up, and let it be known that you’re in the market for a new interim leadership assignment. But before you do this, make sure your resume reflects your most recent experience and accomplishments.

Broaden your social media presence

Now’s the time to review your social media footprint –to be as visible as possible. Take the time to include more information on your LinkedIn account.

• Does your profile incorporate the right keywords?
• Are your connections to influential facilities, medical personnel, and staffing agencies noted?

Check in with your professional groups, pages, or active forums. Comment, like, and jump into conversations to be seen and heard by the other members. Create a post, initiate a discussion, and follow up with those who chime in.

Take advantage of the downtime

A little time away from a full-time position can be a blessing. Invest more time in self-care than can usually be squeezed into a workday. Make plans to do those things that you love, the things that too often get relegated to a low priority. Choose activities and people that refresh your mind, body, and soul. And lock away the pangs of guilt that might try to sabotage this time of indulging in you. Channel time and energy into tackling those items that seem to forever remain at the bottom of your to-do list. Imagine the sense of accomplishment when you can place a fat check mark next to a long-ignored task. Choose to use this “me time” to invigorate your search for the next assignment.

Partner with LeaderStat

Whatever type of interim healthcare leadership position you’re looking for, LeaderStat can help. We match qualified, experienced interim leaders with healthcare organizations seeking interim leadership. In addition, our team will strive to help you find rewarding assignments and provide you with an outstanding benefits package.