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The greatest asset of any department is the people within it. Identifying and recruiting key faculty and staff, rewarding existing faculty and staff who excel, and retaining the faculty and staff who fit with the department’s mission to promote success are critical elements of a Chair’s role.

Recruitment

Finding candidates

• Talk to your trainees – do they want to join your faculty after completing their training
• Talk to your faculty – do they have contacts who are looking for new career opportunities?
• Advertising with AAN and specialty-specific professional neurological organizations. AHMA and other organizations reach a diverse base of trainees and providers.
• Search firms can be expensive but may be helpful in the case of difficult recruitments, involving few qualified individuals and a highly competitive market. See if the hospital or School of Medicine is willing to help defray costs.

Initial conversations

• Virtual initial meetings are a low-cost option to see if there is mutual interest.
• Bringing your constraints and the value/priority of the job to the conversation from the get-go can save everyone time.
• Be honest about the position; be open in cases that may not involve a “standard” role, e.g., tenure-track with varying needs for support, new program building, potentially transformative hires.

Recruitment & retention resources