Dental Assistant Recruiting (Updated 2022)

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Here are the 5 Best Strategies to Recruit Dental Assistants in 2021: 1. Know How to Source Dental Assistants Here is how it works. You offer a temporary training program in your practice, and let dental assisting colleges near you know.

Interested assistants will apply, upon which you’ll select who to join the program. Consider offering paid externships to attract the best assistants.

During the internship, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the assistants, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately determine the best fit for your facility.

Marketplace.ada.org shared this on “5 Best Practices for Hiring a Dental Assistant.”

2. Write The Perfect Dental Assistant Job Description You’ll want to think hard about the way you advertise your dental assistant vacancy. Try to sell them on your dental practice and its ethos.

• What can you offer them?

• A fun and close-knit work environment?

• Rewarding work?

• Great health benefits?

Going beyond the minimum requirements for a job description will help you attract dental assistants who want to make a difference.

However, using a dental assistant job description template will provide much of the boilerplate information you’ll need, such as responsibilities and qualifications, making your task a bit easier.

This strategy to recruit dental assistants came from Betterteam.com’s “How to Find Dental Assistants.”

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3. Don’t Expect to Hire the First Person You Interview, Schedule Lots of Interviews I know it’s hard to fit interviews into an already busy schedule, but hiring is a numbers game.

The more applications you receive and the more people you interview, the more likely you are to find the right person.

Nowadays with tools like Zoom or other video conference platforms, it’s easy to schedule a quick interview.

You can even do it from home if you aren’t able to carve out time at the office during the day.

Ashley Fuegel shared this on Mgeonline.com’s “Hiring Tips for Your Dental Practice in the Post-COVID-19 World!.”

4. Know the Specific Roles You Want The Dental Assistant to Handle The majority of dental clinic owners are aware of the typical administrative and patient care responsibilities of a dental aide.

These usually include keeping records, scheduling appointments and preparing patients for procedures. But did you know that some dental aides have extra responsibilities, like carrying out fissure sealant procedures and administering nitrous oxide?

When recruiting an RDA, it’s important to have an in-depth understanding of the kind of assistance your dental nurse or aide will be offering.

You don’t want to recruit someone with minimal qualifications or a poor skillset, only to discover later that they’re not suited to carry out certain sophisticated tasks you need them to.

Develop a suitable job description for the dental assisting position your office needs before jumping into the labor market.

This will help you find the right person early on and avoid wasting time with people who aren’t a good fit.

“This Is How to Hire The Right Dental Assistant For Your Practice” from CloudDentistry.com.

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5. Provide Fair Compensation Although there are many factors that contribute to employee loyalty, compensation is certainly one of them.

In DANB’s 2018-2019 Dental Assistants Satisfaction and Salary Survey, assistants were asked what factors were the most important to them in a job, and salary was listed as number one by a wide margin. \ Research conducted by staffing agencies has also found similar results.

Providing fair compensation to dental assistants is one way to make your dental practice an attractive place to work.

“5 Tips to Find and Keep Superstar Dental Assistants” from Dentalmanagers.com shared this tip.

How Will You Use These Strategies to Recruit Dental Assistants in 2021?

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