Recruiting platforms, caregiver marketplaces, staffing agencies, executive search, caregiver training LMS, and administrator certification programs.
39 vendors
Largest healthcare staffing company in the U.S. with travel nursing, per diem, and workforce management.
Automated caregiver outreach and engagement platform for home care and senior living recruitment.
Largest healthcare staffing company with travel nursing, allied health, per diem, and home health professional placements.
Largest healthcare interim leadership network with executive search for home health, hospice, and post-acute organizations.
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.
On-demand staffing solutions for home care agencies needing temporary caregiver coverage.
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.
Nurse staffing platform with rapid pay (within hours of shift completion) and flexible per diem scheduling.
Major healthcare staffing company with home health nursing, therapy, and per diem staffing solutions.
Nationwide staffing agency providing interim referrals for human services including home care.
Industry-leading executive search and interim management for home health and hospice within Simione Healthcare Consultants.
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.
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.
