Round glasses and well wedged in front of the camera, Elodie describes her journey. Like her, more than 80 people are candidates, this Thursday, March 16, for the 100% digital recruitment set up by the Bayonne hospital. A kind of “job dating” online. “The contact is fluid, no tension, the current passes”assures Céline Wolf, a health executive at the other end of the conversation.
In the room, regarding twenty managers in front of their screens respond to requests according to their many specialties: maintenance, surgery, medicine, etc. Each meeting lasts for half an hour, with a grid on the table listing the positions occupied, the skills, the situation and the professional project of the candidates. First are heard the agents who request a transfer, then present the students at the end of their course, which would begin at the beginning of July.
“Our problem is to build loyalty”
This large-scale recruitment is linked to the situation of the Navarre-Côte Basque Territory Hospital Group, which has 50 vacant paramedical positions between Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Bayonne and Saint-Palais, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. “We offer a lot of specialties, which are interesting for a career, but young people are on the move and our problem is to build loyalty”, explains André Weider, from the care management. Candidates post their requirements and concerns. Can we find accommodation in the Basque Country and at what price? The hospital has set up an internal housing exchange and is working with social landlords.
From the beginning of this job dating, the first recruitments are there: a nursing assistant in geriatrics, then two radio manipulators and an emergency nurse. It is the culmination of a long process. In February, all offers were detailed via social media, nationwide. The digital solution, more flexible, has imposed itself. “No travel, it’s fast and good for the carbon footprint, remark André Weider. And this initiative rules out the prospect of bed closures for lack of staff. »
