Hospital administration is one of the most varied job categories in Indian healthcare. The title "Hospital Administrator" can mean a 24-year-old managing front desk operations at a 20-bed clinic or a 45-year-old veteran managing the entire non-clinical function of a 500-bed group. ICG's screening begins by establishing which of these the hospital actually needs — and which of these the candidate actually is.
The common failure in hospital administrator hiring: a JD that requires "5 years of hospital administration experience" without specifying operational scope, team size, or commercial accountability. The resulting candidates range from front desk supervisors to COOs. The shortlist is useless.
ICG's administrator screening collects three specific data points before any shortlist: the largest team the candidate has directly managed, the revenue or bed-count scale of the largest facility they have managed, and one specific operational problem they have solved with a measurable outcome.
For candidates at senior administrator level, private registration is particularly valuable — the market for a COO-type role is small and word of a search travels quickly.