Know your market before you start your search.

Great Bay places permanent PTs, OTs, SLPs, NPs and PAs for healthcare employers across the Northeast, with national reach.

Every search opens with a written analysis of your real candidate pool, your compensation position, and who you're actually competing against.

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Search snapshotSample

Outpatient PT — Greater Boston

Search difficultyHigh

Qualified clinicians availableThin

Pay vs. marketAt market

The constraint isn't pay. It's a territory that spans two labor markets candidates won't cross.

Your actual snapshot includes the full analysis behind each rating.

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Most firms start with a job posting. We start with research.

You get the market in writing. Before we source anyone.

Send us the job description. We send back an analysis.

How hard the search is and why. How many qualified clinicians realistically exist in your market. Where your pay sits against real data. Who you're competing with. How long it should take.

Every conclusion is labeled — verified data, calculated estimate, or recruiter judgment. You'll know which is which.

Often it confirms the plan and sharpens the pitch. Sometimes it finds that pay isn't the constraint at all, and points to what is.

It's the first step of every search we run, not a separate product.

How a search works

We know the clinician market before you call us.

Not a résumé database. A working knowledge of who practices where.

We track the licensed PT, OT, SLP, NP and PA population across the markets we serve, and we maintain relationships with the clinical training programs that feed them. We stay in touch with clinicians who aren't looking, so the conversation has already started when they are.

When we take your search, we'll tell you what we already know about the pool in your market — its realistic size, where those clinicians currently work, and who we've had contact with.

That's a specific answer on the first call, not a promise to go find out.

Why searches stall

Pay benchmarked against the wrong geography.

A candidate pool a fraction of the size the headcount data suggested.

Competition nobody mapped — often an entire sector, not a company.

A territory covering two labor markets that candidates never cross.

None of this shows up on a job board. All of it shows up in our analysis.

1997

Recruiting since

2008

Great Bay founded

75+

Healthcare agencies in the NPAworldwide practice group Brian leads

100 days

Prorated guarantee on every placement

One recruiter. A network behind him.

Most searches are worked by one recruiter, alone. Every Great Bay search is led by Brian Hughes and backed by NPAworldwide, a global, referral-only network of 500+ independent recruiting firms, admitted for specialty depth, not volume. Members work each other's searches directly, sharing candidates and market knowledge no single firm holds alone, so your role is in front of specialized recruiters from the first 24 hours.

What it means for you: national reach when a search needs it, and one point of contact throughout.

Brian Hughes

Great Bay Staffing

Brian leads the Healthcare Practice Group

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You'll get the difficulty rating, the realistic supply, where your pay lands, and the one thing most likely to stall the search.

Read it, use it, send it to whoever signs off. Then decide what you want to do next.

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