How I Built Resilience: Dr. Iman Abuzeid of Incredible Health

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Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Dr. Iman Abuzeid is the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a digital platform that helps streamline the hiring process for nurses and recruiting hospitals. After seeing an increased demand for nurses in April, and a shift to hiring digitally, the platform has now been able to expedite the hiring process to 15 days or less, compared to an industry standard of 90 days. These conversations are excerpts from our How I Built Resilience series, where Guy talks online with founders and entrepreneurs about how they're navigating turbulent times.

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1:01.0	Hey everyone and welcome to how I built this resilience edition.
1:07.0	On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders about how they're building resilience into their businesses at this very challenging moment.
1:16.0	And today we're going to hear from Dr. Imman Abuseid, the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health.
1:22.0	It's a digital career platform where nurses create profiles and are matched with hospitals, making the hiring and onboarding process much quicker and much more efficient.
1:33.0	It's currently being used by hundreds of leading hospitals across the country.
1:37.0	So hospitals and health systems, they use our platform and our custom matching technology to hire permanent nurses in what is 15 days or less right now.
1:47.0	Usually the industry average is 90 days.
1:50.0	Now the reason the average is so high at 90 days is because we are experiencing a massive nursing shortage, even before the pandemic, the shortage was pretty bad.
1:59.0	And it's now become even worse.
2:01.0	So the few unique things about our platform and the way it works is that the hospitals apply to the nurses instead of the other way around.
2:09.0	And so by flipping it around like that, it's a magical experience for the nurses.
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