This is why he suggests early in his September 15, 2017, post, “A staffing agency is probably the easiest way to work locum tenens. It’s also the best way to start.”
However, if you still prefer to ‘go it alone,’ here are several industry-specific job boards, most of which allow you to remain anonymous to agencies while searching for locum tenens jobs. Just be careful in registering with any of them — and consider setting up a virtual phone number through which you can screen any follow-up calls you receive.
Industry-Specific Job Boards
PracticeMatch has been “Trusted by Physician Job-Seekers for Over 30 Years” (way back in the BI era, or “Before Internet”).
“Based in St. Louis, Missouri, PracticeMatch is the industry leader in providing practicing physician and resident/fellow data and services to in-house physician staffing professionals and offers a continuum of services designed to provide a clear competitive hiring advantage to health organizations. It boasts “being the first to offer physician databases online and the first to fully integrate all recruitment-related services.”
Industry statistics highlighted on the website when we visited:
- Total Interviewed Physicians: 396,482
- Total Active Interviewed Job Seekers: 88,383
- Candidate Matches (lasts 30 days): 344,643
According to PracticeLink Director of Physician and Client Operations Tammy Hager, PracticeLink works with “more than 5,000 healthcare facilities representing more than 25,000 job opportunities nationwide.” While its network includes both in-house recruiters and agency recruiters, the job board allows you to narrow your job search to only those posted by in-house recruiters (or agency recruiters). Each month PracticeLink uploads more than 500 new “inDepth Interviews” by trained interviewers with active job candidates in which the latter share details about their training, practice preferences, family needs/history, hobbies, personal interests and more.
Here are the “latest stats” posted for PracticeLink when we checked it out:
- Active Jobs: 28,025
- Active Job Seekers: 52,856
- Job Responses (Last 30 days): 22,003
- New Jobs (Last 30 days): 4,406
LocumTenens.com lays claim to being “the industry’s largest and most-visited job board” for physicians, PAs, NPs, CRNAs & psychologists. Stats highlighted on the job board include: 158 specialties served, more than 90,000 jobs available monthly, and 900+ jobs viewed daily.
“In addition to running a free, self-service job board, LocumTenens.com is a full-service physician, advanced practice and psychologist recruitment agency working in high-demand medical specialties,” with recruiters dedicated to only one medical specialty. Note: if you don’t want to be contacted by agency reps after using this job board, be sure to answer “no” to these two questions asked at registration:
- Would you like to be contacted about opportunities in your specialty?
- Would you like to allow healthcare facilities to contact you directly via email?
Like most other job boards, DocCafe.com allows job-seekers to search postings for free. When we checked out the site, it offered almost 9,600 physician/PA jobs posted (mostly by agencies, it appears) in the past 30 days among the more than 82,000 “total active jobs.” When we searched “locum tenens,” we found DocCafe.com offered 714 physician/PA jobs posted in the past 24 hours.
Possibly the most dynamic among the job boards for physicians and physician assistants, this site facilitates video interviewing ‘on demand,’ along with a built-in applicant tracking system (ATS) to help potential employers move candidates ‘through the internal pipeline’ — all for the cost of a subscription fee for the employer, of course.
This board self-identifies as “the largest & best resource for locum tenens or permanent jobs for physicians, PAs, NPs & CRNAs.” The site boasts 7,000+ healthcare employers in its network, including well-established locum tenens recruiting firms like All Star Healthcare Solutions, Cross Country Locums, The Delta Companies, Interim Physicians, Jackson & Coker, Maxim Healthcare Group, The Medicus Firm and Physicians PRN.
This site “helps connect qualified, but hard-to-find candidates with locum tenens jobs posted by some of the top locum tenens agencies on its unique platform.” When we visited the site, it boasted almost 12,000 locum tenens jobs for MDs, DOs, PAs, CRNAs, NPs and other healthcare professionals in close to 60 specialty categories. Check out the job board’s brief “How to Navigate a Locum Tenens Job Board” video for an intro to locum tenens online job-searching.
Other Agency Job Boards
Many of the larger, more established locum tenens agencies offer their job postings online, as well. However, we’d suggest reviewing the registration and preference-setting options carefully if you’d prefer not to be contacted by agency recruiters. Once again, visiting our agency directory here on Locumpedia.com or the one at NALTO.org is a good place to find quality agencies
Here are a few examples to get you started.
CompHealth: jobs for physicians (354 when we visited), PAs/NPs/CRNAs (95), medical lab techs (100), occupational/physical/respiratory/speech therapists (460)
Cross Country Locums: 443 “healthcare opportunities” were posted here (including physician and advanced practice jobs) when we visited.
Hayes Locums: 127 locum tenens jobs available when we visited here.
MPLT Healthcare: several hundred locums, permanent and staff jobs posted here upon our visit.
StaffCare: 692 locum tenens jobs available for physicians, advanced practice providers (NPs, CRNAs, PAs)
Healthcare Media
JAMA Career Center: Publication and job board are geared to physicians. While there were a few jobs posted by agencies when we visited, most were posted by healthcare employers looking to hire directly.
Becker’s Hospital Review Career Center: Publication is geared to healthcare executives. Jobs posted are a mix of clinical, administrative/executive and academic.
Modern Healthcare Career Rx: Publication is geared to healthcare executives. Jobs posted are a mix of clinical, administrative/executive and academic.