“A regular nurse recruiter won’t do!”

Ask us about recruiting nurses, and we can talk to you for hours about the pros and cons of using recruiters to fill nursing jobs. The opportunities and the pitfalls. The advantages of using well-resourced large recruitment agencies vs. hungry individual recruiters. The added value of specialized nursing recruitment over posting on generic job boards. We’re NurseRecruiter.com after all: we know about recruiting, we’ve got decades of experience.

But sometimes you need to fill a nursing job or executive position that’s a little different, and you’ll find yourself thinking: “I don’t just need a nurse recruiter, I need a nurse headhunter”. The kind of position where a run-of-the-mill procedure just won’t get you the talent you need. Because you don’t just need a nurse; you need top nursing talent, honed through years of experience — or outstanding executive know-how.

What’s in a name? Nurse headhunters vs traditional recruiters

We totally get it. The healthcare industry isn’t exactly lacking in specialized positions that are hard to fill. So it’s easy to feel like you need executive nurse recruitment services that offer something extra!

We want to be honest here, though. The dirty little secret is that there isn’t actually a clear-cut difference. No single red line that distinguishes a self-proclaimed headhunter from a highly skilled nurse recruiter. “What’s in a name” and all that — a headhunter who knows all the ins and outs of his trade would serve just as efficiently by any other name.

But we’re not in the business of semantics; we’re in the business of finding you the most qualified professionals for your open positions. So the more salient thing here is that we know exactly what you need when you say you need a headhunter — and we know how to provide you with just that service. Did we say yet that we’ve got decades of experience?

5 reasons to hire a headhunter for your nursing job placements

Say, you were mulling over the thought of hiring a nursing headhunter. Let me summarize what I think you’re looking for. Then you can tell me if I’m close!

1. The position you’re looking to fill is a challenging one. Maybe we’re talking about a hard-to-replace specialist or NP who doesn’t just have extensive experience in their specialty, but the kind of rare professional instincts you can’t just buy. Maybe it’s an executive position and you need a natural leader who can inspire any team. Or a consummate practitioner you can rely on in any circumstance.

A Director of Nursing or an ADON, perhaps; a nurse executive to head up a specific department or specialty; or an exceptional nurse manager or supervisor.

2. You require more exclusive, bespoke services. A recruitment specialist who can go above and beyond in the kind of intensive search needed to fill your position. A partner who can dedicate a substantial amount of time and effort to find you the unicorn you’re looking for.

You might be looking for the kind of person — and hey, I don’t want to get too personal here — who hit a point in their successful career where they decided to use all the expertise they built up to specialize, rather than spend the rest of their life managing larger hiring funnels.

3. You need a recruitment expert who can leverage deep networks they diligently cultivated through the years to chase down the kind of talent you’re not going to find on Indeed. Someone who can proactively seek out passive candidates who might otherwise not show up on your radar.

Someone, in short, who has the skills and experience to deploy a highly targeted approach in a relationship-driven recruitment process, so they can match top-tier professionals with exactly the right position.

4. You’re not just looking for someone who ticks all the right boxes. When the position involves significant responsibilities, it’s not enough for an agency to check off whether the candidate has the right qualifications and the right experience. You need a headhunter who has the people skills and the industry insight required to identify candidates who are a perfect fit with your company’s values and culture as well.

5. Discretion and confidentiality are indispensable. They’re always a must in nursing job placement services, but especially salient in the recruitment process for high-stakes roles. A good headhunter knows how to make your executive position a tempting proposition for peerless candidates who are currently employed by your competition. Dealing with that kind of situation, they’re well aware of the need to proceed with tact, and tread carefully!

Does hiring a nurse headhunter need to be expensive?

Do you recognize your staffing needs in any or all of the above five points? Then you might be in need of the kind of top-rate nurse recruiter who could confidently call himself a real headhunter. And you’re in luck, because our recruiting experts can provide you with the specialized nurse headhunting services you’re looking for — without upfront costs.

• Our headhunters are experienced leaders in their field, and they will manage the entire sourcing and recruitment process for you, tailoring it to your specific needs.

• Thanks to the synergy between their individual commitment and the structural advantages our platform provides, they have a leading edge in identifying the right candidates quickly.

• We maintain a vast nurse database of over 400,000 self-registered, active healthcare professionals — and they know their way around it!

If you’re worrying whether hiring a headhunter is worth the investment, we can reassure you. With our pay-per-hire model you’ll only pay when you successfully hire, so you will be saving money on false starts and dead ends. It’s a risk-free solution for your more elite staffing requirements. Take the hazard out of high-stakes recruitment: we recruit nurses, you hire!