About this healthcare recruitment simulation
Cedarway Talent Challenge is a free healthcare talent acquisition simulation. You are Director of People and Culture at Cedarway Health Alliance, a fictional three-site Ontario healthcare organization that must recruit registered nurses, respiratory therapists, medical laboratory technologists and two clinical managers before winter demand peaks.
Vacancies are predictable, but hiring is reactive: strong applicants withdraw during a 31-day wait for a first interview, only 61% of offers are accepted, nearly a quarter of new staff leave in their first year, and a proposed AI screening tool may disadvantage non-traditional candidates. Each decision you make changes what happens next.
What you will practise
- Workforce planning for hard-to-fill clinical roles
- Speeding up a slow hiring process without lowering quality
- Realistic job previews that match recruitment promises to working conditions
- Evaluating an AI screening tool for bias and fairness
- Reducing early turnover through better onboarding
Created for Chapter 5, Talent Acquisition in Healthcare, of the open textbook Human Resources Management and Labour Relations in Healthcare. You finish with a personalized report to print or submit. See all healthcare HR simulations or all free simulations.