Telehealth-Specific Recruiting Strategies for Job Boards in 2025

Telehealth is no longer a niche offering — it’s a core component of U.S. healthcare. By 2025, over 80% of hospitals and 60% of primary care practices are expected to offer telehealth services (American Hospital Association). This rapid growth has created a unique recruiting challenge: finding credentialed clinicians who can provide virtual care, often across multiple states.

For recruiters and staffing agencies, using a telehealth-focused job board like DirectShifts, paired with optional staffing services, is becoming the most efficient strategy.

Why Telehealth Recruiting is Different

1. Multi-State Licensing Requirements
   Clinicians may need licenses in multiple states to treat patients remotely. Recruiters must verify credentials across state boards — a manual process without specialized tools.
   
2. High Competition for Clinicians
   With telehealth adoption surging, top candidates are in demand. Generic job boards generate leads, but most are unverified or already engaged with competitors.
   
3. Flexibility and Remote Readiness
   Recruiters must identify clinicians willing and equipped to work virtually, often on flexible schedules.
   

Telehealth Recruiting Strategies

1. Use Specialized Job Boards First

Platforms like DirectShifts:

• Pre-verify licenses and credentials
  
• Filter for telehealth-ready candidates
  
• Provide nationwide reach, from New York to California
  

Benefit: Reduces wasted screening time and ensures candidates meet telehealth compliance requirements.

2. Leverage AI Matching & Automation

AI tools can:

• Match candidates to roles based on specialty, location, and telehealth readiness
  
• Automate outreach to passive candidates
  
• Predict which roles may require staffing support before time-to-fill becomes critical
  

3. Hybrid Approach: Job Board + Staffing Services

Some roles, especially psychiatry or advanced practice positions, remain hard-to-fill. DirectShifts offers staffing support when posting alone isn’t enough:

• Candidate sourcing and outreach
  
• Credential verification and compliance
  
• Full-service placement
  

This hybrid strategy ensures no telehealth role goes unfilled, even in high-demand specialties.

4. Track Cost-Effectiveness

• Post on DirectShifts first to minimize spend
  
• Escalate to staffing support only if needed
  
• Compare time-to-fill and cost-per-hire to agency-only models
  

Data shows hybrid strategies reduce cost-per-hire up to 70% versus agency-only recruiting while improving time-to-fill by 35%.

Case Study: Telehealth Recruitment at Scale

A large telehealth network needed 50+ clinicians across psychiatry, primary care, and hospitalist roles.

• Initial posting on generic boards: High volume, low quality; most candidates unlicensed for the required states.
  
• Shift to DirectShifts Job Board: Pre-verified, telehealth-ready clinicians applied; time-to-screen reduced by 40%.
  
• Escalation to staffing services for niche psychiatry roles: Closed remaining openings in under three weeks.
  

Result: Faster placements, lower cost-per-hire, and fully compliant clinicians across multiple states.

FAQs: Telehealth Recruiting

Q1. Can I recruit telehealth clinicians on generic job boards?
Yes, but verification and multi-state licensing must be done manually, which is time-consuming.

Q2. Does DirectShifts verify multi-state licenses?
Yes. All candidates are pre-verified for telehealth eligibility in the states they serve.

Q3. Should I use staffing support for all telehealth roles?
Not necessarily. Post first on DirectShifts, and escalate to staffing only for hard-to-fill or high-priority roles.

Q4. How can AI help with telehealth recruiting?
AI matches candidates based on specialty, telehealth readiness, and location, reducing screening time and improving candidate fit.

Q5. Is this approach cost-effective?
Yes. Recruiters save on unnecessary agency fees and reduce time-to-hire while still filling all roles efficiently.

Q6. Can this model scale nationwide?
Absolutely. DirectShifts provides national reach for telehealth positions and staffing support when needed.

✅ Key Takeaway: Telehealth recruiting is complex due to licensing, compliance, and high demand. Using a specialized job board like DirectShifts, combined with optional staffing services and AI-powered matching, is the fastest, most cost-effective way for recruiters and staffing agencies to fill telehealth roles in 2025.