An academic hospital is not a care home. The employer decides whether a candidate fits.
In healthcare recruitment a job title tells you little. An ICU nurse from a 300-bed academic hospital works differently from a nurse at a 40-bed elderly care home. SourceLens analyses the employer, so you see within seconds whether a profile actually fits.
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Sound familiar?
You source for a healthcare organisation and LinkedIn returns 420 nurses.
Some worked at academic medical centres, others at regional hospitals, a smaller group at long-term care, mental health or private clinics. Those are four different worlds with different protocols, different acuity and different caseloads.
You’re looking for an ICU nurse for an academic hospital.
BIG registration is sometimes on the profile, often not. Specialism is rarely stated clearly. The previous employer is a name you don’t recognise. What type of care? How large? Cure, care or mental health? Comparable acuity to your client?
Know the employer? Three seconds, assess. Don’t know it? New tab, search the name, read the site, look up locations. Five minutes per profile. With 420 profiles that does not work.
So you skip employers you don’t know. Or you filter too strictly on the names you do know. And you miss nurses who would fit perfectly, except they happened to work at a healthcare institution you’ve never heard of.
Hours spent researching instead of approaching candidates
Wrong matches: ward experience for an ICU role, or vice versa
Hiring managers ask for rationale, you only have the title
Specialism mismatches surface only in the intake interview
For agency and staffing recruiters in healthcare:
Today you take on an assignment from a mental health institution you don’t know. Tomorrow a role at a long-term care location in another region. Without employer context every new assignment is starting from scratch.
Employer context that actually matters in healthcare.
SourceLens automatically analyses the last 8 employers per candidate. For healthcare that means concrete signals you would otherwise have to research by hand.
Per healthcare employer you see:
- Organisation type (academic medical centre, general hospital, long-term care, mental health, private clinic, primary care)
- Bed count and patient volume, indicative, based on public employer data
- Care type (cure, care, mental health, elderly care)
- Specialism signals (ICU, OR, ER, oncology, maternity, district nursing)
- Region and catchment area
- Public or private, and the funding model that goes with it
What this changes for you:
- Tell a 300-bed academic hospital apart from a 40-bed care home at a glance
- See cure, care, mental health or elderly care experience without opening every employer site
- Filter on candidates with BIG-relevant background and specialism fit
- Find nurses at healthcare institutions you don’t know but are genuinely relevant
Important: SourceLens delivers employer context. It does not do clinical assessment. Whether a nurse is the right fit for your ICU team stays a conversation between your client and the candidate. SourceLens makes sure the right profile reaches the table, so you don’t have to manually research 400 previous employers first.
From half a day of screening to 30 minutes. The hours you reclaim go into intakes with hiring managers and into the scarce candidates themselves.
Concrete results for healthcare recruiters
A healthcare search of 400+ profiles takes 30 minutes instead of half a day. More time for intakes and candidate conversations.
Distinguish academic medical centres, general hospitals, long-term care and mental health without researching every candidate.
Find nurses and healthcare professionals at care institutions you don’t know. Scarce candidates in a scarce market.
Launch offer with code LINKEDIN25. Works with LinkedIn Basic. No expensive Recruiter licence required.
ROI in a scarcity market
In healthcare every successful placement is scarce and expensive. One sharper shortlist per week often saves more than a second sourcing tool costs. Time reclaimed per search is real caseload capacity.
“I source for a network of healthcare institutions across the Netherlands. It used to take me hours to figure out which type of employer a nurse actually came from. With SourceLens I see that immediately, and I can fill roles at less well-known care institutions much faster.”
Healthcare & welfare recruiter
Staffing for healthcare professionals
Pricing for healthcare recruiters
Starter
With code LINKEDIN25 (until April 30). Early adopters keep this price forever.
- Chrome extension (works with LinkedIn Basic)
- Employer analysis: 18 dimensions, tuned for healthcare context
- 2,000 candidates per month
- 5 active projects
- Email support
No credit card needed for trial. 14 days free.
Start free trialWhy this works in healthcare
- Savings per search: 2 hours of manual employer research avoided
- Searches per month: 6 to 8 in an active healthcare team
- Time returned to intakes and candidate conversations
- SourceLens: €89/mo
- Scarce placements you used to miss now make the shortlist
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