What is Clinical Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)?
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a flexible, scalable solution where healthcare organizations partner with a specialized recruiting firm to manage their full hiring process. RPO helps hospitals, clinics, healthcare systems and other facilities streamline hiring, reduce costs and improve the quality of hires.
With Optigy, your RPO team functions as a true extension of your internal HR department, without the overhead of hiring, training and managing an in-house recruiting team. Candidates and hiring managers experience your RPO team as part of your organization, not as an outside vendor, so you get dedicated recruiting capacity while your brand stays front and center.
We’re not just recruiters - we’re strategic partners.
What make Optigy clinical RPO solutions different:
Relationship-Driven
Approach
RPO with Optigy is one of the most cost-effective staffing models available, delivering significant savings over traditional agency contingency fees or internal hiring inefficiencies, without compromising hiring results.
Customized
Solutions
Every single Optigy engagement is tailored. Whether your scaling up a new department or rebuilding a team after a turnover, we adapt to your needs.
Industry
Expertise
We are all in on clinical recruitment. We understand licensing, credentialing and other requirements to get your new hires in the door and on the floor fast.
Faster, Higher -
Quality Hires
We combine proven sourcing strategies with deep talent networks to find the right fit resources, simultaneously reducing time-to-fill and improving retention.
Cost Effective
Recruitment
RPO with Optigy can deliver significant savings over traditional agency contingency fees or internal hiring inefficiencies.
Benefits of RPO for Healthcare Organizations
Benefit
Why It Matters
Reduced Internal Workload
Free your HR and hiring managers from day-to-day recruiting tasks so they can focus on strategic priorities
Reduced Time-to-Hire
Fill roles faster to prevent care disruptions and staff burnout.
Reduced Burden on In-House Team
Instantly scale by adding skilled resources who can act on behalf of your brand.
Improved Candidate Quality
Get better fit clinicals through targeted sourcing and screening.
Lower Cost Per Hire
Streamline your recruitment budget with predictable pricing.
Scalability
Flex hiring capacity up or down as patient volume or services change.
Compliance Support
Ensure hiring practices align with healthcare regulations.
Better Hiring Data
Use analytics to improve decision-making and track performance.
FAQs
RPO outsources an organization's entire recruiting function on an ongoing basis, acting as an embedded extension of the internal HR team. Direct hire support is built for individual or targeted hiring needs, filling specific permanent roles rather than managing the full recruiting process.
RPO is an ongoing, dedicated partnership covering an organization's full hiring process. Contingency staffing is a performance-based model focused on individual placements, with payment tied to each successful hire rather than a continuous engagement.
No. Optigy's RPO team functions as an extension of the organization's internal HR department, so candidates and hiring managers experience the recruiting process as part of the organization itself, not as an outside vendor.
Most RPO partnerships are fully operational within 30 to 45 days of kickoff, covering discovery, process alignment and team onboarding. Timelines can vary based on the size and complexity of the hiring need.
Yes. Optigy's RPO model is built to flex with patient volume, service line changes and seasonal hiring demand, so recruiting capacity can expand or contract without renegotiating a new engagement.
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Who We Serve
We focus 100% on healthcare because that’s what we know, and we know you deserve a partner that understands your unique
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All-In-One Staffing and Recruitment
We recognize that you don’t have cookie cutter needs. That’s why we design each solution around you.
Locum Tenens
Address gaps or cover absences
Direct Hire Support
Streamline processes for efficiency
Retained Search
Dedicated effort from an experienced team
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Assessment
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