Permanent placement by headhunting

Hire clinicians and healthcare leaders.

No postings. No stacks of resumes. No chasing. You interview a short list.

No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.

BLS OEWS May 2025, released May 15, 2026. Survey data, not our pay forecasts. Source and methodology

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Tell us who you need

Step 1 of 2 · Your opening
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
Profession and urgency (optional)
Who are you hiring?
How soon?

Looking for a job? Join our talent network.

What happens next

  1. We review your role, responsibilities and location.
  2. Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
  3. You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
Fees.
No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
Exclusivity.
Set out in the signed client agreement.
Confidentiality.
We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
No hire.
No hire means no fee on standard searches.

Healthcare Headhunters headhunts healthcare professionals for employers nationwide.

This is what we do all day: recruit healthcare professionals.

Physicians, nurses, CRNAs, PAs and allied health pros who aren't job hunting. From X-ray techs to CMOs.

No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.

What the work looks like, every search

  1. 01Scope and pay calibration
  2. 02Targeted market mapping
  3. 03Personal outreach, one by one
  4. 04Live qualification calls
  5. 05Written candidate insights
  6. 06Interview and offer support
See how each step runs

No upfront feePay only if you hireHealthcare recruiting onlyWe reach people who aren't on job boardsWritten replacement terms on standard searches

Find your role

Profession, title, engagement.

Search every position A to Z

What an open seat really costs

What does an open seat cost you every week?

An open role costs you more than the recruiting fee. Someone covers the work, waits for care, or stops a service. We ask what is falling behind and who is carrying it. Use your own figures to compare the cost of waiting with the cost of hiring.

01

The seat is costing you every week.

Overtime, diverted patients, a stretched team and a schedule held together by favors.

02

The posting brought the wrong people.

Applicants arrive, but the person who has done this exact work is employed and not looking.

03

You are the one chasing.

Screening calls, no-shows and follow-ups land on the desk of someone with a facility to run.

The problem with posting

Why aren't the people you want applying?

A posting finds people who are already looking. For many healthcare seats, those are not the people you need. The physician who runs a steady service, the nurse leader whose unit hits its marks and the imaging lead everyone relies on are busy doing the work you want covered.

If they see your posting at all, they read it as someone else's problem.

That is why a vacancy can sit open while applications keep arriving. The applicants are real and some are good, but the strongest fit is often employed, reasonably content and open only to a specific reason to move. Our job is to find that person, learn what your seat needs and put an honest reason in front of them.

This is permanent placement by headhunting. We research who has done comparable work, then approach people about your actual opening. Our recruiting and placement experience informs the questions we ask. You get context about the candidate, not just a forwarded resume.

01

They are employed and doing well.

The clinicians you want are working today. They are not scrolling job boards, and they ignore noise.

02

They distrust generic outreach.

A mass message tells them you never read their background. A specific one, from someone who knows the work, gets a reply.

03

They move for a reason, not a posting.

Schedule, team, scope or a problem worth solving. A posting lists duties. They want to know why.

The Six-Step Search

How do you get the right shortlist instead of 20 resumes?

Our process for every search: calibrate the seat with you, map the market, research the real people, reach out to each one personally, qualify them in live conversation, then hand you a short list with a written brief on each person and support through the offer.

01

Search Calibration

We agree what the seat owns, the credentials it needs and what the pay really is, then write the brief with you.

02

Market Mapping

We map which organizations employ the people who fit, and note size, setting and care type.

03

Professional Contact Intelligence

We find the actual clinicians and the right way to reach each one, through research and not a purchased list.

04

Persistent Personalized Outreach

We write to each person on their own terms and follow up, respectfully, until there is an answer.

05

Live Candidate Qualification

We talk with each interested candidate about scope, pay, location, motives and fit, and drop the ones who do not match.

06

Candidate Intelligence and Process Support

You receive a written brief on each qualified candidate, and we help with scheduling, preparation, offers and close.

Positions

Which positions do we recruit?

We recruit physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, allied health professionals and healthcare leaders for employers nationwide. Every position we recruit is grouped by profession and listed A to Z. Open a family to see its titles, or go straight to the A to Z list if you already know the title.

Positions by specialty family

Most searches go wrong before outreach begins. The title is familiar, the description is old and nobody has said out loud what the new hire must fix in the first year. So we start by asking you. What does the seat own? Who does it report to? What happened to the last person in it? Which parts of the schedule, call or caseload are fixed, and which can bend?

Those answers decide who we approach. A hospitalist for a rural cross-cover service is a different search from a hospitalist for a teaching program, even though the title matches. A director of nursing in a skilled nursing facility answers to survey teams and families in ways a hospital unit manager never does. We write the brief around the work, then look for people who have done it.

Pay belongs in that first conversation. Clinicians ask about it early, and a vague range slows everything down. We help you settle what the seat realistically pays in your market, and we say so plainly if the number will shrink the pool.

Specialties

Which specialty areas do we recruit for?

We organize our searches into eleven specialty areas, from physicians and nursing to allied health and healthcare leadership. Each area below lists common titles and links to its full hub. If your role is not listed, describe the work and we will tell you whether it fits our search scope.

Illustrative Format: Not a Real Candidate

What do you receive from us?

You will hear from us in plain terms. When a person is worth your time, you receive a written brief covering scope, motive, strengths and watch points. When a search is hard, we tell you what is making it hard. When a seat falls outside our work, we say so early.

We do not forward a stack of resumes and wish you luck. We talk with each interested person about scope, pay, location and reasons to move, and we drop the ones who do not match. Your interviews begin where those conversations ended, so your time goes to people who are serious and suited.

Illustrative Format: Not a Real Candidate

Candidate brief

Seat
Hospitalist, regional hospital medicine group
Scope
Day and night shifts, reports to the medical director
Why they would move
Block schedule and a growing program
Strengths
Board certified, steady tenure, comfortable supervising APPs
Watch points
Licensure timeline, pay expectations, notice period
Our read
Strong fit. Worth meeting for the nights seat.
How it works

How does a search run from brief to hire?

Working with us takes three steps. You brief us on the role, we headhunt people who are not looking, and you interview and hire. Each step has a clear owner, so you always know who is acting next. The cards below show what happens at each stage and when a fee applies.

01

Tell us the seat

Role, location and what makes it hard to fill. A short form or a call.

02

We headhunt

We contact qualified people who are not looking and talk with each one.

03

You interview and hire

No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.

Relocation and travel

Can we move people to the work, or cover a gap first?

Many of the clinicians worth hiring will need a reason to move. We ask early about relocation support, start dates and licensure so the offer fits the person and the seat. Permanent placement is our core and the default. Some employers need coverage before a hire is possible, or want to try a working relationship before committing.

Those arrangements are available on request, and we will say which one fits your situation, including when the honest answer is a permanent search.

If you are not sure which engagement you need, describe the gap. A retiring physician, a unit that lost its director and a new site that opens next quarter each call for a different plan.

We arrange locum tenens, travel and contract coverage on request. Credentialing, licensing and malpractice coverage are confirmed per engagement before anyone starts.

Straight talk

What will we tell you plainly?

We are a recruiting firm for healthcare, and that narrow focus is deliberate. We do not recruit for other industries, and we do not run nurse staffing pools. When you ask for something outside our work, we will say so on the first call instead of taking the brief and hoping it works out.

Some seats are simply hard. A rural hospital with one open surgical line, a specialty clinic in a small market and a leadership role with a difficult reporting structure all shrink the pool. We tell you what is limiting the search, and you decide whether to adjust the scope, the pay, the location or the timeline. Credentialing, privileging and the final hiring decision stay with you, as they should.

Confidential searches are common. If a departure has not been announced, or the seat is being restructured, tell us before we contact anyone. We agree what can be shared and when, and we explain the practical limits, since a distinctive setting can make an employer recognizable even without a name.

Give us the working brief

Who should write to us?

This site is for the person with the open seat: a practice owner replacing a retiring physician, a chief nursing officer short one unit director, a group administrator opening a new site, or a hospital executive filling a department head role that has been vacant too long.

You do not need a finished job description. Send the vacancy, the setting and the location. Tell us what is confidential. We will ask the questions that turn a vacancy into a search, and we will tell you straight away if the seat is one we can help with.

Questions

What should you send us first?

Send us the role, where the person will work and what needs to change with this hire. We will ask about the work, not just the title. Share any license or schedule limits that could rule someone out before we begin the search.

What does Healthcare Headhunters do?

We headhunt physicians, nurses, advanced practice providers, allied health professionals and healthcare leaders for employers nationwide.

How do you charge?

No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. Terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.

Do you do staffing as well as permanent placement?

Permanent placement is our core and the default. We arrange locum tenens, travel and contract coverage on request. Credentialing, licensing and malpractice coverage are confirmed per engagement before anyone starts.

What if a hire does not work out?

We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.

How is this different from a job posting?

A posting reaches people who are looking. We contact clinicians who are employed and not looking, one by one, after researching who fits.

Tell us who you need

Step 1 of 2 · Your opening
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
Profession and urgency (optional)
Who are you hiring?
How soon?

Looking for a job? Join our talent network.

What happens next

  1. We review your role, responsibilities and location.
  2. Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
  3. You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
Fees.
No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
Exclusivity.
Set out in the signed client agreement.
Confidentiality.
We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
No hire.
No hire means no fee on standard searches.
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