Recruitment

In a competitive environment for healthcare workforce talent, investing in a robust pharmacy technician recruitment strategy is critical for every organization. A successful strategy is developed in partnership with your human resources department and requires a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s strategic direction. Use the resources here start developing your own robust recruitment strategy.

ARTICLES AND PODCASTS

• Stabilizing the Pharmacy Technician Workforce as an Imperative for the Chief Pharmacy Office | Read the Article | Listen to the Podcast
• Pharmacy technicians, supporting our past, shaping our future: Implementing an ASHP-ACPE–accredited pharmacy technician training program in an academic medical center | Read the Article
• Constructing a Pharmacy Technician Career Ladder: Best Practices for Engaging Stakeholders | Listen to the Podcast
• Identifying Key Roles of the Pharmacy Technician in Primary Care Settings | Read the Article
• Professional Identity Formation: The Experience of Regulated Pharmacy Technicians in Ontario | Read the Article
• Assessment of pharmacy technician learning preferences and implications for training | Read the Article
• Implementation of a pharmacy technician career ladder | Read the Article
• Systemization of a pharmacy technician career ladder in a multi-hospital system | Read the Article 
• Wage Premiums as a Means to Evaluate the Labor Market for Pharmacy Technicians in the United States: 1997–2018 | Read the Article 
• COVID-19 and the Rise of a Remote Workforce: Technicians | Listen to the Podcast
• Impact of Remote Medication History Technician Workflow during COVID-19 on the Bedside Discharge Medication Delivery Services Acceptance Rate | Listen to the Podcast

PRESENTATIONS

• Technician Initiatives and Development: Moving Beyond New Roles to Leadership | Download Slides (PDF) 
• Stewardship of the Pharmacy Technician Workforce | Download Slides (PDF)
• Communicating Value to the C-Suite | Download Slides (PDF)

JOB DESCRIPTIONS

• Pharmacy Technician I (PDF)
• Pharmacy Technician II (PDF)
• Pharmacy Technician Lead (PDF)
• Pharmacy Technician Specialist – Automation (PDF)
• Pharmacy Technician Specialist – IV Room (PDF)

OTHER RESOURCES

• ASHP Guidelines on Recruitment, Selection, and Retention of Pharmacy Personnel
• Partnering with Human Resources (PDF)
• Partnerships with High Schools (PDF)
• Benefits package promotion (PDF)
• Recruitment Pipeline (PDF) 

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