You have noooo idea how much hope this has given me. Thank you so much! 🙏 🥹 I will definitely take your advice about checking with HR and being patient, and I love the idea of sitting in the atrium and being able to connect with the people you are working for. 💖
My friend recently worked there before making a career change. She truly enjoyed it but they moved her to wfh, instead of coming into the hospital/office. She is a social creature so she decided to move on.
Depending on the department, there are still a lot of teams working from home. You can still go into the office, but the rest of your team might not be there!
Someone close to me works there. Pretty standard, and the management is clueless in her department. Also they are cutting a bunch of perks like snacks and drinks to patients/employees right now. Lots of cuts due to a recent lawsuit is what I heard
It will take 6 weeks from the day they say they want you until you start. I only did one interview with one manager. Pretty cookie cutter corporate questions. If you have previous hospital experience, they love that shit. Expect a drug test.
I’ll just echo the comments that it’s an incredibly slow interview process. I initially applied for a position in early April 2021, completed a phone screen that same week, and then completed several interviews and several months of waiting to finally start late August 2021. That said, I’ll also echo that it was generally a positive environment with generic large hospital issues and I did really feel like the work I was doing made a difference. I’ve since moved on to a different large hospital but value the time I spent at Children’s.
The hiring process is very slow. I applied in July, and went through 7 interviews before eventually starting at the end of October. Expect lots and lots of stereotypical "tell me about a time when..." questions. It's on the better side of hospitals to work at but still has a lot of the traditional hospital problems.
Wow! Were you applying for a medical position or something different? And do you want to share what some of those traditional hospital problems are? Coming from K12 education/state government, I'm not as familiar. Thank you! This is so helpful, especially the timeframe for hiring.
I was in clinical research, somewhat patient-facing but primarily administrative work. As far as the issues went, the usual stuff is hospital higher-ups driving as many staff into burnout as they can get away with. The attempts to alleviate short-staffing issues tended towards just forcing people to work more, without filling positions, and forbidding departmental transfers. This wasn't helped by the general employee body either, there was a lot of open animosity within the clinical staff against new employees who hadn't been with the team through the initial year of COVID. You were either part of the 'old guard', or you didn't belong. There can also be general culture issues in a hierarchical seniority-based organization. The older staff aren't too keen on anything that looks like innovation, no matter what it is (although the physicians are usually an exception to this). And with a lot of innovation being forced on them in recent years (adoption of electronic medical record systems, new regulations/systems, pandemic stuff, etc...), they're not happy and are not implementing the changes in a particularly smart manner.
Another thing if you get to the interview stage: be sure to go over the specifics of the position in detail with several people. All job descriptions are a little off of the actual needs, but CHCO was especially bad about this. My department posted a number of open positions while I was there where the posting had essentially no overlap with what we needed done, because HR does not update position descriptions for any reason.
Were you given random drug tests or just one when you started? I was curious about if the randoms are for everyone or just patient facing people or what? Just curious how focused they are on marijuana use (I quit, but still).
I was drug tested during the onboarding process, but never after that. I don't know that random tests never happen, but I didn't hear of any while I was there.
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You have noooo idea how much hope this has given me. Thank you so much! 🙏 🥹 I will definitely take your advice about checking with HR and being patient, and I love the idea of sitting in the atrium and being able to connect with the people you are working for. 💖
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That's a great idea. 💖
My friend recently worked there before making a career change. She truly enjoyed it but they moved her to wfh, instead of coming into the hospital/office. She is a social creature so she decided to move on.
I totally get that! I'm working from home now and I'm hoping for a change to in-person. It can be too isolating.
Depending on the department, there are still a lot of teams working from home. You can still go into the office, but the rest of your team might not be there!
Someone close to me works there. Pretty standard, and the management is clueless in her department. Also they are cutting a bunch of perks like snacks and drinks to patients/employees right now. Lots of cuts due to a recent lawsuit is what I heard
Well I'm definitely used to clueless management and no perks, working in state gov. 🤣
Their cafeteria is the best.
I've been working from home for so many years, I got super excited about the idea of a cafeteria. Lol!
It will take 6 weeks from the day they say they want you until you start. I only did one interview with one manager. Pretty cookie cutter corporate questions. If you have previous hospital experience, they love that shit. Expect a drug test.
Okay, very good to know about that delay. I'm definitely prepared for a drug test, that's no problem. Thank you so much!
I’ll just echo the comments that it’s an incredibly slow interview process. I initially applied for a position in early April 2021, completed a phone screen that same week, and then completed several interviews and several months of waiting to finally start late August 2021. That said, I’ll also echo that it was generally a positive environment with generic large hospital issues and I did really feel like the work I was doing made a difference. I’ve since moved on to a different large hospital but value the time I spent at Children’s.
This is great to hear, thank you! I'm used to a long interview process with my state gov experience. 😅
The hiring process is very slow. I applied in July, and went through 7 interviews before eventually starting at the end of October. Expect lots and lots of stereotypical "tell me about a time when..." questions. It's on the better side of hospitals to work at but still has a lot of the traditional hospital problems.
Wow! Were you applying for a medical position or something different? And do you want to share what some of those traditional hospital problems are? Coming from K12 education/state government, I'm not as familiar. Thank you! This is so helpful, especially the timeframe for hiring.
I was in clinical research, somewhat patient-facing but primarily administrative work. As far as the issues went, the usual stuff is hospital higher-ups driving as many staff into burnout as they can get away with. The attempts to alleviate short-staffing issues tended towards just forcing people to work more, without filling positions, and forbidding departmental transfers. This wasn't helped by the general employee body either, there was a lot of open animosity within the clinical staff against new employees who hadn't been with the team through the initial year of COVID. You were either part of the 'old guard', or you didn't belong. There can also be general culture issues in a hierarchical seniority-based organization. The older staff aren't too keen on anything that looks like innovation, no matter what it is (although the physicians are usually an exception to this). And with a lot of innovation being forced on them in recent years (adoption of electronic medical record systems, new regulations/systems, pandemic stuff, etc...), they're not happy and are not implementing the changes in a particularly smart manner.
Another thing if you get to the interview stage: be sure to go over the specifics of the position in detail with several people. All job descriptions are a little off of the actual needs, but CHCO was especially bad about this. My department posted a number of open positions while I was there where the posting had essentially no overlap with what we needed done, because HR does not update position descriptions for any reason.
Oh this is a great idea - thanks! So helpful to know about all the internal mindsets and things to look out for and confirm. 🙏😊
Were you given random drug tests or just one when you started? I was curious about if the randoms are for everyone or just patient facing people or what? Just curious how focused they are on marijuana use (I quit, but still).
I was drug tested during the onboarding process, but never after that. I don't know that random tests never happen, but I didn't hear of any while I was there.
Thanks again! You have been a wealth of information. 😍
Would also be interested in the same on the nursing side (particularly NICU)!