Recruiting for the Heart Center: A Marketing Challenge

Recruiting for the Heart Center: A Marketing Challenge

Joe Simon, head of recruiting, is presented with an interesting recruiting challenge. Dr. Abruzzi presented him with the target market of

physicians that he needs for his new heart center. It is not so much the age distribution that poses the interesting aspect of this group that

will make his recruiting approach complex, it is the cohorts they represent in terms of the tactics that he must utilize. As Dr. Abruzzi has

forewarned him, the Executive Committee with whom Joe will interact has grown up in the age of print newspapers. Joe will have some

convincing to do in terms of the approaches he will employ to get the various market segments, how he implements recruiting appeals

on the heart center’s websites for each segment, and the repositioning he wants to convey.

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Questions:

1. Are there going to be significant differences between the groups of doctors in Joe’s recruiting strategies?

2. What elements of the marketing mix may have to be materially changed?

3. In what ways might the Executive Committee have the most difficulty adjusting to or understanding Joe’s approach?