ABOUT HEALTHCARE RECRUITING, INC.

Healthcare Recruiting is a retained executive search firm working exclusively in the intersection of healthcare + communications. We’re your prescription for PR, marketing and digital talent.

We're Creative

We know healthcare. We know communications. When Healthcare Recruiting launched in 1998, the secret to creating success was focus: to work exclusively in the intersection of healthcare and communications. With almost two decades of disciplined work across multiple healthcare segments and geographies, we have earned what we consider the cornerstone of our success: the trust of both clients and candidates.

We're Passionate

We love what we do, and have honed our skills and capabilities throughout our two decades in business. We continuously cultivate and deepen our networks within multiple specialty healthcare sectors and communications segments. We keep on top of the dynamic, ever-evolving and shifting healthcare industry trends and issues; as well as best practices in communications, social media and marketing.

We're Professional

We provide clients with the expertise, knowledge and insight they need to make informed hiring decisions. We work in partnership with health industry clients to identify, evaluate and recruit mid to senior level executives; and help organizations evaluate talent; and prepare for their current and future leadership needs.

We Know Healthcare

Consumer Health & Wellness | Healthy Living | Health Technology | Health IT | Health Services | Payors | Health Systems | Hospitals | Life Sciences | Biotechnology | Pharmaceuticals | Medical Devices and Diagnostics | Healthcare Industry Associations | Foundations | National Healthcare Nonprofits

We Know Communications

Corporate Communications | Digital Strategies | Social Media | Content Development | Employee/Internal Communications | Investor Relations (IR) | Financial Communications | Issues Management | Crisis Communications Marketing | Branding | Marketing Communications | Product Management | Product Marketing | Public Affairs | Government Relations | Public Relations | Media Relations | Sales

9570

LinkedIn Connections and Counting

1400

Candidates Assessed Since our Founding

14000

TalentBank Candidates and Counting

LEADERSHIP

Deborah Kaufman, Healthcare Recruiting
Deborah Kaufman, Healthcare Recruiting

Deborah Kaufman
Founder and CEO

Deborah Kaufman
Founder and CEO

Deborah brings close to two decades of experience as a seasoned healthcare marketing and public relations practitioner. She founded Healthcare Recruiting in 1998, and since then has conducted senior-level searches for both blue chip and startup/emerging companies.

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Clients include the California Healthcare Institute (CHI), a life sciences/biotech industry association; US Oncology, a national health services firm, and for the global healthcare practices of leading public affairs and PR agencies. See Clients for a representative set of engagements. Prior to founding Healthcare Recruiting, Deborah worked in billable, client-facing roles at leading PR/integrated communications agencies. As Vice President at healthcare-only PR/strategic communications agency FischerHealth/Porter Novelli. Deborah provided senior counsel and developed PR/marketing communications programs for medical device firms including Thoratec, Datascope, Intuitive Surgical, Masimo, Gensia, and Woodside Biomedical. Prior to joining FischerHealth, Deborah served as Deputy Executive Director, Marketing and Communications, for a healthcare policy-focused Robert Wood Johnson Foundation organization, where she built and directed all external communications activities. Other experience includes client-facing managerial positions in the healthcare practices at New York global PR agencies Porter Novelli and Ruder Finn.Deborah received her Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing from New York University, and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
James Giordano
James Giordano

James Giordano
Senior Recruiter

James Giordano
Senior Recruiter

James brings more than 15 years of experience as a seasoned healthcare marketing, PR and sales executive.

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Prior to joining Healthcare Recruiting, James served as a healthcare public relations/media relations consultant at Ruder Finn; in strategic communications leadership-level positions with the American Management Association (AMA); and in supervisory/managerial positions with leading telemarketing firms in New York and Los Angeles. James completed coursework in business and marketing at the State University of New York (SUNY), Oneonta.

SOLUTIONS

TALENT BANK

Our proprietary 14,000+ record TalentBank has been built and continuously updated over the past decade. Our TalentBank features:

  • Top senior executives. Leaders with 10-15+ years of healthcare-specific executive management expertise, skilled in taking companies to their next level of growth and profitability.
  • Mid-level managers. Professionals with 7-10+ years of progressively responsible experience, passionate, strategic-thinking and knowledgeable healthcare practitioners
  • CareerStart. A value-added service to our clients, we match entry to junior-level healthcare communications professionals, including college-level seniors, recent college graduates, and healthcare communications professionals with less than two years of experience, to our clients who have infrastructure-level positions with opportunity for rapid advancement.

HEALTHCHECK

We have developed and use a standardized assessment tool, HEALTHCheck, when evaluating candidates. This tool assesses cultural fit through extensive research and an in-depth analysis, to ensure that candidates have the skill set and experience you need, and can immediately hit-the-ground running and integrate with your corporate culture. The key criteria we use, the HEALTHProfile, includes:

H – Honesty. Character and business ethics; how the candidate is viewed by “outside influencers” such as peers/colleagues, former employers, etc.
E – Experience. Relevant experience that maps to our client’s “must-have” criteria.
A – Aptitude. Intellectual, strategic and creative problem solving/plan creation and building capabilities.
L – Love. Passion for the industry and career.
T – Temperament. Independent and proactive, or simply an order-taker? A team player or prima donna? Maverick or follower?
H – Hard-working. Work ethic, commitment to create and achieve excellence.

COST SAVINGS

Healthcare Recruiting partners with you to significantly reduce costs to recruit healthcare communications talent and shortens the hiring cycle by helping find the right person for the job quickly.

Time Savings. A marketing or communications job vacancy is estimated to cost the average firm $5,000 – $10,000 per month. With our focus on best-match talent, we reduce executive time to interview, evaluate, hire and retain the best talent to complement their team.

Cost Savings. Diminishes need for “above and beyond” recruitment expenses, such as recruitment advertising, staff incentives, etc.

The Fit and Avoiding the Mistake-Hire. By tailoring and matching candidates’ hard skills and soft skills to your firm’s personality using the proven methodology of the HealthCheck tool, we help our clients avoid costly hiring mistakes.

PROCESS

  1. Discussion

    Capabilities

  2. Implementation

    Pro-Active Search Strategies

  3. Evaluation

    Screen Talent through Proprietary Methodology

  4. Present Candidates to Client

    Review Talent

  5. Client Conducts Interviews

    Guided by our Proprietary Interview FlowChart

  6. Offer Stage

    Client Completes Offer Conversation and Negotiations

  7. Post Search Follow-Up

    Candidate & Client Check In

TESTIMONIALS

"Over the past several years, Deb Kaufman has partnered with Spectrum in the competitive Washington DC market to identify and hire healthcare senior digital strategies and public relations/media relations talent. She is dedicated, accountable, and skilled in providing relevant candidate background, to inform us in making the right hiring decisions. Deb easily cuts through the clutter and reaches prospects unfailingly. We've had a number of successful recruitments, thanks to her guiding hand. She represents the firm and our interests well. She's buttoned up, productive and a delight with whom to work and get to know. Highly recommended!"

John Seng

Founder, Chair and CEO Spectrum

"Deb is a skilled healthcare recruiter, and helped us to identify and hire a hard-to-find senior-level External Communications leader. She was excellent in gathering position requirements, and provided us with a strong slate of candidates that aligned with our key criteria. She was a great partner throughout the process, and helped us close the ideal candidate."

Grant Summers

Recruiting Consultant Depomed, Inc.

"Deb is a reliable, dependable recruiter. She has been a valued partner in helping us identify & hire healthcare communications talent, especially at the AE to VP levels."

Brandon Edwards

CEO ReviveHealth

"Deb has an expansive understanding of healthcare communications and has a keen "eagle eye" view of what it takes to be successful and grow in an agency environment. She understands the talent and hard work behind this unique industry and has been able to build an incredible network of healthcare communications professionals. She is a superb resource to call upon and am pleased to have had the opportunity of working with her at Porter-Novelli/FischerHealth."

Helen Phung

Senior PR Manager Optimizely

"Deb was FischerHealth's internal recruiter extraordinaire, and one of the things that makes her so good at what she does is that she came from the account side of this healthcare-focused agency. That means that Deb gets all areas of healthcare (from payer and hospital sectors, to devices and biopharma), and she gets marketing communications and PR. She knows how to identify talent not only from the obvious places, but from similar and related areas or companies that are less obvious. This experience is what separates her from most recruiters -- she's more like a strategic partner."

Betsy Merryman

Experienced Healthcare Marketing and Communications Consultant FischerHealth

"Deborah is top-notch recruiter who takes pride in fulfilling the needs of her clients, keeping them in the loop every step of the way and providing guidance on how best to prepare for each meeting. Her ability to pair a great candidate with the ideal company is unmatched."

Gabrielle Hannafan

Senior Manager, Communications Sarah Cannon

"I had the pleasure of working with Deborah recently and was genuinely impressed with her professionalism - she was thorough, nimble, and provided excellent follow up. I knew what was going on and what to expect throughout the entire recruiting processs. Whether you are a company or a recruitee, I highly recommend Deborah based on my positive experience."

Brandi Cook

Vice President Edelman

CLIENTS

CANDIDATES

Healthcare Recruiting measures our success by how our clients assess our abilities, and by what our candidates think of us. We pride ourselves on our commitment to making each search experience a positive one for every candidate – not just the placed candidate.

 Once you have been selected as a potential candidate, we guide candidates through each step of the interview process, ensuring you are kept updated as the search progresses. Email your resume, so we are able to contact you when the right position become available.  If you already are in our TalentBank, we encourage you to e-mail us updated information.

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    James Giordano

    Senior Recruiter

    James brings more than 15 years of experience as a seasoned healthcare marketing, PR and sales executive. Prior to joining Healthcare Recruiting, James served as a healthcare public relations/media relations consultant at Ruder Finn; in strategic communications leadership-level positions with the American Management Association (AMA); and in supervisory/managerial positions with leading telemarketing firms in New York and Los Angeles. James completed coursework in business and marketing at the State University of New York (SUNY), Oneonta.
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    Deborah Kaufman

    Founder & CEO

    Deborah brings close to two decades of experience as a seasoned healthcare marketing and public relations practitioner. She founded Healthcare Recruiting in 1998, and since then has conducted senior-level searches for both blue chip and startup/emerging companies, ranging from the California Healthcare Institute (CHI), a life sciences/biotech industry association; US Oncology, a national health services firm, and for the global healthcare practices of leading public affairs and PR agencies. See Clients for a representative set of engagements.
    Prior to founding Healthcare Recruiting, Deborah worked in billable, client-facing roles at leading PR/integrated communications agencies. As Vice President at healthcare-only PR/strategic communications agency FischerHealth/Porter Novelli. Deborah provided senior counsel and developed PR/marketing communications programs for medical device firms including Thoratec, Datascope, Intuitive Surgical, Masimo, Gensia, and Woodside Biomedical.
    Prior to joining FischerHealth, Deborah served as Deputy Executive Director, Marketing and Communications, for a healthcare policy-focused Robert Wood Johnson Foundation organization, where she built and directed all external communications activities. Other experience includes client-facing managerial positions in the healthcare practices at New York global PR agencies Porter Novelli and Ruder Finn. Deborah received her Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing from New York University, and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
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