The 3RNET, National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network, is the nation’s most trusted resource for health professionals seeking careers in rural and underserved communities.

3RNet (National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network) works to improve rural and underserved communities’ access to quality health care through recruitment of physicians and other medical and health care professionals, development of community based recruitment and retention activities and national advocacy relative to rural and underserved health care workforce issues. 3RNet also provides technical assistance to help communities become more successful at recruitment and retention of physicians and other medical professionals.

Responsible for conducting all recruitment, placement and retention activities to support and enhance the delivery of primary health care in New Hampshire and Vermont with particular emphasis on the needs of medically underserved areas and populations. Providing all physician, dentist and advanced practitioner referrals and technical assistance for health care organizations across New Hampshire and Vermont to increase their capacity, knowledge, and ability to effectively recruit and retain health professionals. Participating in the development and implementation of statewide strategies to strengthen efforts to recruit and retain health professionals.

The contract as the Oral Health Workforce Consultant involved pipeline development and dentist recruitment. Responsibilities included: ∙ Developing and maintaining relationships with regional dental schools and pre-dental programs with NH colleges.∙ Organizing and conducting presentations to dental students and pre-dental students to promote the field of dentistry and support future recruitment to NH.∙ Researching and tracking dentist vacancies in NH and recruiting new clients to utilize recruitment services.∙ Providing technical and admin support in the development of a future dental school scholarship program.∙ Recruiting NH dentists to the Ambassador Program.

The 4.5 year contract involved setting up a new division of the Recruitment Center in the oral health professional field. Responsibilities as the Oral Health Recruiter included: ∙ Administrative and marketing implementation to support the development of the oral health program. ∙ Conducting research to identify job opportunities for dentists in NH. ∙ Providing technical recruitment assistance to clients with dentist vacancies and performing job site visits.∙ Participating in oral health meetings, trade show exhibits and coordinating presentations at dental schools.∙ Recruiting NH dentists to the Ambassador Program and sending communications and quarterly progress summaries to the dentist ambassadors.∙ Facilitating communications, job shadowing and site visits between dental students and dentist ambassadors.∙ Interviewing, screening and matching potential candidates with job opportunities and providing resume development assistance as needed. ∙ Providing narrative quarterly reports as required under grant contract.∙ Additional administrative responsibilities included: maintaining recruitment database; setting up and maintaining client and candidate files; designing/preparing and coordinating marketing pieces, direct mail campaigns, advertisements and all outgoing communications; preparing forms and presentation materials; scheduling and coordinating meetings, presentations, exhibits and site visits; researching social networking sites to develop a social marketing plan to enhance recruitment.