Recruiting platforms, caregiver marketplaces, staffing agencies, executive search, caregiver training LMS, and administrator certification programs.
22 vendors
Automated caregiver outreach and engagement platform for home care and senior living recruitment.
Online marketplace matching vetted professional caregivers with home care agencies and families.
Caregiver and CNA job marketplace within CareListings connecting nurses with senior care employers.
Healthcare workforce platform connecting nurses and allied health professionals with per diem hospital shifts.
Job board and recruiting platform with healthcare and home care job categories for caregiver hiring.
Per-diem healthcare staffing marketplace at national scale — YC-backed, post-acute heavy
Two-sided healthcare staffing marketplace connecting CNAs, LPNs, and RNs with SNFs, assisted living, and home care for per-diem shifts. Significant national footprint; YC-backed; aggressive growth.
On-demand healthcare staffing platform for CNAs, LPNs, and RNs at long-term care and home health facilities.
Recruitment CRM for healthcare with ATS, automated hiring, and multi-location management.
Largest job search platform widely used by home care agencies for caregiver recruitment.
Largest job board in the US with extensive home care, caregiver, and CNA job listings and employer tools.
W-2-employee per-diem nursing platform — benefits + flex shifts, differentiated from 1099 marketplaces
Per-diem nursing platform that hires CNAs and nurses as W-2 employees with benefits and offers them flexible shift selection across post-acute facilities and home care. Differentiated from 1099 marketplaces (ShiftKey, CareRev, Clipboard) by employment model.
Senior care staffing marketplace connecting caregivers with senior living and home care facilities.
Per-diem nursing marketplace — fast-growing entrant in the post-acute gig-staffing pack
Per-diem nursing marketplace connecting local CNAs, LPNs, and RNs with facilities for short-term shift coverage. Tech-forward, mobile-first; competes head-on with ShiftKey, Clipboard, IntelyCare, and connectRN.
On-demand healthcare staffing marketplace connecting nurses with facilities for per diem shifts with fast pay.
1099-contractor shift marketplace — transparent pay, broad post-acute and home care reach
Healthcare staffing marketplace where nurses and CNAs select shifts as 1099 independent contractors. Operates across nursing homes, assisted living, hospitals, and home care. Transparent posted pay; aggressive growth and fundraising history.
On-demand healthcare staffing marketplace with 350K+ workers for per diem and permanent home care shifts.
AI-powered healthcare staffing platform with shift optimization, talent matching, and cost-effective escalation.
Healthcare job search platform for nursing and allied health with travel, per diem, and permanent positions.
Healthcare staffing platform with per diem shifts, coaching, referral bonuses, and career development support.
AI-powered job marketplace used by home care agencies for caregiver recruitment with smart matching technology.
Caregiver recruiting is the binding constraint of the home care business. National turnover runs 65–80% per year, and the gap between agencies that grow and agencies that stagnate almost always comes down to recruiting throughput, not demand. The vendors in this category address that constraint at four price/effort levels.
Recruiting platforms (Apploi, Vivian, MyCNAjobs, Caribou, Hireology) run sourcing, applicant tracking, and onboarding workflows specific to the caregiver labor market. Pricing is typically per-hire ($150–$500) or a monthly platform fee, with the better tools integrating directly with EVV/scheduling systems so a hired caregiver flows from applicant → trained → on-shift in days rather than weeks.
Caregiver marketplaces and gig platforms (Honor, Papa, ShiftMed, Clipboard Health) provide on-demand or per-shift staffing — useful for last-minute coverage, weekend gaps, or ramping a new client without a permanent hire. Premium pricing per hour, but no recruiting cost on the agency side.
Traditional staffing agencies for home care (regional firms, often state-specific) place permanent or temp-to-perm caregivers, typically charging a finder's fee equivalent to 15–25% of the placed caregiver's annual wages. Higher-cost than self-recruiting via a platform, but the right answer when an agency lacks in-house recruiting capacity.
Executive search and interim leadership firms cover the C-suite and senior-clinical hires (administrator, DON, regional VP, controller). Engagements are project-based ($15,000–$60,000+) and often include 6–12 month interim placement while a permanent hire is found.
Caregiver training LMS platforms (CareAcademy, Activated Insights, Relias, In the Know) provide state-aligned curriculum (HHA, CNA, PCA, plus dementia care, infection control, end-of-life), automated tracking of training hours, and integration with EVV/scheduling systems so a caregiver's training status surfaces at staffing time. Pricing is typically per-caregiver per-month ($5–$15) with volume discounts. Mature LMS providers ship 100+ hours of in-service modules; cheaper tools require the agency to source its own continuing-ed content.
Administrator certification programs prepare the licensed administrator-of-record required by most state licensing rules — programs from the Home Care Aide Council, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), and state-specific credentials run $800–$3,500 plus continuing education.
Across all of these tiers, the highest-leverage move is reducing time-to-first-shift. Every day a hired caregiver isn't on shift is recruiting cost amortized over fewer billable hours. Platforms and processes that compress the hire-to-shift cycle from 10+ days down to 3–5 days — including pre-hire training that runs in parallel with onboarding — produce meaningfully different unit economics, regardless of headline cost-per-hire.
