Partner with Starfish

The Healthcare Industry Leading Recruiters

Starfish Partners Healthcare is ranked among some of the largest executive search firms in the U.S. Because of the boutique nature of our executive search firm, Starfish Partners Healthcare has owner participation in every search and encounters fewer conflicts than our larger competitors. This gives us access to a significantly larger pool of candidates, including both passive and historically underrepresented populations, enabling us to source, identify, recruit, evaluate, and hire highly specialized healthcare leaders to your organization. Additionally, by partnering with us, you’ll have:

  • Senior Partner/Consultant/Recruiter involvement in every aspect of the search, from the initial client meeting to the search’s conclusion. Why is this important? The partner/sr. consultant who interviews Search Committee members is the same person developing the strategic sourcing plan, initiating the calls (critical in attracting candidates – we design a valuable proposition to attract prospects), and evaluating candidates. The partner/sr. consultant leads candidate and client interview preparation (identifies hot buttons and requirements to guide the interview process), offer, placement, and onboarding. They retain hands-on ownership of each search, and they are highly visible, easily reachable, and personally accountable throughout every step of the executive search process.
  • In addition, we offer specialty-focused sections within our department. Our expert search consultants focus on two to three specialties at any given time. This method ensures that we have full access to the healthcare candidate pool through consistent contact with the targeted community of leadership within those specialties. This ensures quicker results and higher quality candidates with diverse backgrounds through referral and word-of-mouth sourcing.
  • More than 200 years of combined recruitment and consulting experience conducting permanent placement searches for professionals at all levels within healthcare technology organizations, academic medical centers and their affiliated teaching hospitals, clinics, and rural community hospitals nationally.
  • We can attract candidates who, prior to our call/outreach, would have had no interest in considering a new opportunity. WHY? We design a value proposition to attract candidates. 70% of candidates presented were not actively looking for a new opportunity.
  • Lastly, we always offer customized processes and value-added services at no additional charge. Consistent with our approach to partnering with our clients, we believe that the value that we bring to you and the fees paid to our firm should be tied to deliverables received.
    • We offer video screening and interviewing tools (included in our price) to accommodate the client’s schedule, expedite the process, and reduce costs on travel. Candidates can be evaluated before going to the expense of bringing them out for an on-site visit at your organization.
    • Additionally, these recordings can be used by the search committee members to review candidates on their own time versus trying to get everyone’s schedules to match, saving additional time and money. We also offer professional assessment tools at an additional cost.

Equal Employment Opportunities Policy:

As an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer, Starfish Partners Healthcare remains committed to a search process that incorporates diversity as a top priority. Starfish Partners Healthcare will follow EEOC guidelines that apply to job advertisements and recruitment. We agree to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Starfish Partners Healthcare complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which we conduct business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Throughout each executive search, Starfish Partners Healthcare establishes clear, confidential, and timely lines of communication with you and your Search Committee of stakeholders and gains agreement on the candidate interviewing, decision-making, and hiring process for the search. An ideal timeframe (from initiation of search activities to successful completion of candidate selection and acceptance of the position) for placement of key roles, typically takes anywhere between 70 to 90 days. We do, however, have the available resources, search consultants, researchers, and staff support to begin working on your projects/engagements immediately following execution of the agreement/contract and to ensure meeting an aggressive implementation schedule.

A predetermined weekly or bi-weekly virtual or telephonic meeting (typically a maximum of 1 hour per week) with your Search Committee or Search Committee Chair has proven to be another effective tool in moving the process forward in a timely manner. We adjust our reporting method and frequency to accommodate client preferences; status reports are provided on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

Through our original research, we are able to conduct our own research and develop a new candidate pool for each search, rather than recycling candidates from previous searches. Unlike other firms who only present a slate of candidates at one time, we offer clients the option of running candidates through the process concurrently versus sequentially. Through this process adjustment, we are able, in many cases, to shorten the search cycle while not adversely affecting the quality of candidates. In fact, our approach has resulted in a higher level of candidate interest.

Starfish Partners Healthcare warrants and represents that it (or any other person that may provide services pursuant to an agreement/contract) has never been and is not now suspended, excluded, barred, or sanctioned by the Medicare or Medicaid program.

We are prepared to begin working on search assignments for your healthcare organization immediately following the execution of an agreement/contract. We have the immediate resources, personnel, supplies, and proprietary databases available to not only ensure a successful recruitment, but to also complete all scopes of the work and specifications outlined. Therefore, we will not be subcontracting any portion of the work to outside entities, unless determined by the client.