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- Feature: Futuro Health Career Start: Connecting Employers with Talent ... Early
Futuro Health Scholar Spotlight Our Latest Blog: Going for Gold: AI, Apprenticeships, and Shaping Workplace Champions Congratulations Graduates! Current Open Programs, Scholarships Available … Please Share! Meet our Scholar Support Team WorkforceRx Podcast: Vinz Koller, Senior Strategist for Capacity Building at Social Policy Research Associates: The Future of Learning is Work | |
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Futuro Health Career Start: Connecting Employers with Talent ... Early |
Externships provide a cost-effective way for employers to identify and nurture emerging and diverse talent in the competition for healthcare talent. Supervisors can assess a candidates' skills, work ethic, and cultural fit before committing to long-term employment. This proactive approach to talent acquisition reduces recruitment costs and gives employers an edge when converting filling future vacancies. With 85% of healthcare facilities reporting a shortage in allied health workers, look to sponsoring clinical externships as reliable strategy for sourcing talent ahead of the competition.
Futuro Health’s Career Start team connects employers with Scholars for clinical externships, using a new platform to onboard scholars and provide secure access to onboarding documents. This streamlined process significantly reduces onboarding time for facilities, enhancing efficiency and security. |  |
Short on preceptors to supervise the externs? Not a problem. Futuro Health is offering preceptor training for employer partners to ensure a positive experience for all. Preceptors can be difficult for our externship partners to train due to limited resources. Futuro Health has the answer to this problem and has created an interactive course to train preceptors on creating a positive learning environment to facilitate meaningful learning for the precept.
Healthcare employers interested in tapping into Futuro Health's diverse pool of Scholars for externships or employment can connect via CareerStart@FuturoHealth.org. |  |
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Futuro Health Scholar Spotlight |
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| Marife G.
Futuro Health Scholar
Medical Assistant Program | Growing up in the Philippines, Marife knew she wanted to be a nurse, but couldn’t pursue her passion for care because the schooling was too expensive. When her husband’s supervisor told her about Futuro Health’s tuition-free healthcare education opportunities, Marife was finally empowered and enabled to enroll in a Medical Assistant Program. |
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Chad P. Futuro Health Scholar
Pharmacy Technician Program |
In his previous career working in offices, Chad felt stifled and unmotivated. Chad was called to pursue a more personally meaningful and fulfilling career that would continue to motivate him and help others. In speaking with a friend who has a career in healthcare, Chad was encouraged to look to Futuro Health for tuition-free healthcare education programs. |
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Our Latest Blog: Going for Gold: AI, Apprenticeships, and Shaping Workplace Champions By: Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health |
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Like millions of others around the world, I spent the past two weeks captivated by the Paris Olympics, watching the incredible achievements of these highly trained athletes. The competition was a testament not only to their extraordinary skills but also to the profound influence of technology on sports training. With numerous world records being shattered, I found myself intrigued about how technological advancements are redefining the way athletes train and prepare, particularly with the growing role of AI (artificial intelligence).
During a recent dinner table debate with my son (a newly minted college graduate), AI was a topic of discussion and whether it would eliminate entry level jobs that would have gone to new workforce entrants like him. He thinks all jobs suitable for recent college graduates will be done by AI in the future — and bases this foresight on his own use of ChatGPT 4.0 features.
Today many Fortune 500 companies are coming to this same conclusion about AI in the workplace, as it becomes integral to maintaining competitive advantage and staying relevant in an increasingly automated global market. Just this week JPMorgan Chase introduced a generative AI assistant to tens of thousands of its own employees, marking the first step in a larger initiative to integrate this technology across the vast financial institution.
So, with the adoption of new AI technologies, what’s a new college graduate to do to allay concerns and future-proof their career? |
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Congratulations Graduates! |  |
Congratulations to Futuro Health Scholars who recently graduated from the NCTI Emergency Medical Technician program! |
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| Programs Open for Enrollment, Scholarships Available...Please Share! |
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The Futuro Health Scholar Support Team, including Success Coaches, Outreach Team Members and Facilitators, are dedicated to supporting our Scholars in their educational journey towards a fulfilling career in healthcare. We understand that each Scholar has unique needs and challenges, and we're here to provide personalized coaching and goal setting to help them succeed. We're committed to celebrating their achievements along the way and working together to overcome any obstacles they may encounter. |
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WorkforceRx Podcast |
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Vinz Koller, Senior Strategist for Capacity Building at Social Policy Research Associates Episode #87: The Future of Learning is Work
One of the oldest forms of training, apprenticeship, has new relevance in the age of AI according to today’s WorkforceRx guest Vinz Koller, a nationally influential voice on the subject and self-described apprenticeship evangelist. Why? Because the pace of change brought about by AI and other technologies has accelerated to a point where predictions about what specific skills workers in most fields will need even a year from now have questionable value. “The model of apprenticeship is particularly appropriate because in my view, apprenticeship is a look into the future. You are actually in the workplace. You don't have to predict what things will be like in ten years. The workplace will evolve and you will evolve with it,” Koller tells Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan. In his role as senior strategist for Capacity Building at Social Policy Research Associates, Koller works with local communities, states, and the US government to determine how to make work-based learning more accessible to more people. On the learner/worker side, a welcome step would be enabling apprentices to earn an associate-level degree upon completion of their training. For employers, key needs include regulatory changes to make hosting apprentices easier and help with setting-up and tracking programs. The aim, he says, is to turn more employers into “co-producers of talent” instead of just consumers of it. This expansive conversation also covers the multi-faceted return on investment for employers, the need for high school recruitment programs, and the role apprenticeships could play in reducing student debt.
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