We place nurses into jobs they stay in.
CareGigs is a recruiting team that works with skilled nursing and long-term care facilities across the Northeast. Send us a resume. If one of our buildings has something that fits, we’ll call and tell you about it.
Nurses don't need another app to log into. They need someone who picks up the phone, and who still remembers their name on day two.
Every nurse deserves a job that sticks.
The country needs about 459,000 new nurses a year through 2034 (BLS: 189K RN, 216K CNA, 54K LPN). Meanwhile the hiring experience keeps sliding backwards. 45-minute forms on a phone during a 15-minute break. Agencies that mass-blast your resume to thirty buildings you’ve never heard of. Recruiters who go dark the minute the placement fee clears.
We started CareGigs because the math is absurd: enormous demand on one side, exhausted candidates on the other, and a hiring process that keeps pushing them apart. A nurse shouldn’t have to fight an applicant tracking system on a phone between shifts to get an interview. A DON shouldn’t have to skim eighty resumes to find three people worth calling. There’s room for someone in the middle who actually talks to both sides.
Six principles we work by.
Nurses are professionals
Nursing is hard, skilled, physical work most of us couldn’t do for a day. We write every email, answer every call, and schedule every interview with that in mind.
We’ll tell you the truth
If there’s no match in our pipeline right now, we say so. If the pay band on a role is light, we tell you before you interview. “Not right now” is a sentence we use a lot.
One human reads every resume
No auto-rejection, no keyword filter, no AI scorer. A recruiter on our team opens every submission that lands.
Ten good placements beat a hundred rushed ones
We’d rather spend three weeks finding the right fit than fill a seat on Monday with a nurse who’ll leave by April. Facilities feel it. Nurses feel it more.
Software where it helps, people where it counts
Our own tooling handles the scheduling, reminders, and paperwork follow-ups. The hiring decisions stay with a person on our team, and the first call you get is from one.
We want to still be your call in five years
If a CNA we placed wants to bridge to LPN, we want to help. If an RN is burned out and thinking about memory care, we want to be the first name that comes to mind.
Not a staffing agency.
Here’s what most people assume we are, and what we actually do instead.
A typical agency
- Mass-submits your resume to thirty buildings in their book
- Temp, travel, or per-diem contracts. No benefits from the facility.
- Goes quiet the week after you start
- Gets paid on submissions; retention isn’t their problem
- Counts you as a placement the day you sign
CareGigs
- We only send your resume to a facility once you’ve said yes to that specific opening
- Direct-hire roles. You’re on the facility’s payroll, with the facility’s benefits.
- We text you through interview scheduling, paperwork, first week, and the check-in at 90 days
- We get paid a monthly retainer by the facility. Keeping you in the role is how we keep the retainer.
- A placement is a nurse who’s still there at six months, not someone who signed an offer
Start with a resume.
Send yours over. A recruiter on our team reads it and checks what we have open. If a partner building is a fit, we call you about it.