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Dr. Robbie Woelkers discusses an 8-step hiring framework for physical therapy practice owners to improve their recruitment process.

🎯 FREE WORKSHOP — Hiring Workshop for PT Practice Owners | June 25th at 12pm EST. Reserve your seat: https://workshop.therehabceos.com/ppp-join Most clinic owners who can't hire PTs aren't dealing with a market problem. They're dealing with a pipeline problem. And the breakdown is almost never where they think it is. In this video, Dr. Robbie Woelkers walks through the 8-level provider hiring framework that RehabCEOs uses with clients to diagnose exactly where their recruiting pipeline breaks down. From building a compensation package that reads as $135K total value instead of an $82K salary, to why 40% of new grads accept positions at their clinical site, to the one step where most owners silently lose candidates they already had (responding too slow), this is a ground-level look at how to stop treating hiring like a one-step problem. If you have patients and no provider to see them, that gap is costing you roughly $5,000 a week. This framework tells you which of the 8 levels is responsible. Who this is for: outpatient PT clinic owners who are stuck in reactive hiring mode and want a repeatable system they can actually diagnose and fix. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Why most owners are…

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Host: Joey Allbritton

Guest: Dr. Robbie Woelkers

Topics covered

• hiring framework
• physical therapy
• recruitment
• clinic management
• compensation packages

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RehabCEOs

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