Company overview

Learn more about how our vast array of solutions and best-in-class technologies are powerfully serving the healthcare workforce. 

Our brands

They say you can’t choose your family – but we did. We think you will, too. Our family of companies can tackle problems of any size, big or small. 

Our role in healthcare

Learn more about how we use our unrivaled staffing experience, best-in-class technology, and strategic consultation to help your organization succeed.

Executive leadership

Meet our team of executive leaders who are guiding our efforts to make life better for providers, patients, and healthcare organizations. 

Core values

See how our core values guide all our business decisions and drive us to find new ways to make life better for those we serve in the healthcare industry.

Community impact

Learn more about how we give back to communities both near and far through fundraisers, team activities, medical missions, and more. 

Solutions overview

See how we’re delivering customized workforce solutions that are doing right by our healthcare partners and improving how healthcare is done. 

Technology

Check out our suite of high-tech solutions that perfectly complement our high-touch approach to a future-ready workforce. 

Strategic consultation

We’re experts in exactly one healthcare staffing solution: yours. Partner with our experts to build a workforce strategy tailored specifically to you. 

Physicians

See how our experts draw from the industry’s largest locums database to deliver customized solutions such as locum tenens, permanent placement, and telehealth.

Advanced practice

Get insights into how our team of APP-specific experts use in-house credentialing and licensing to deliver the right candidate to your facility.

Allied health

Learn more about the process we use to connect your organization with qualified therapists, technicians, technologists, assistants, and more.

Nurses

Find out what makes our nurse staffing truly stand out in the industry, and how we’re constantly looking for new ways to make the process smoother.

Telehealth

Tap into the nation’s largest network and deepest specialty bench of multi-state license providers to keep your virtual care strategies on track.

Blog

Visit our blog to get workforce insights, catch the latest company updates, and hear important stories from within the healthcare industry.

Resources

Get industry insights, workforce strategies, and more from our resource section. Each video, article, and tool has been created with your success in mind. 

Careers overview

Get the details on how a career at CHG fast-tracks your success and lets you play a role in helping 25 million patients receive care each year.

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Locations

Get all the details about our various locations nationwide. We have expanded our operations to better serve the needs of the healthcare community.

Benefits

Browse our benefit and wellness programs and learn how our team handpicks the best options to support you as a whole person.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Learn about the DEI goals we’re embracing to make our company¬–and healthcare industry at large–a better home for everyone.

Learning and development

See how our award-winning team of trainers can help you develop new skills and pursue the career path that makes you feel the most alive.

Employee stories

Check out stories from our people’s lives that highlight how CHG supports personal growth and helps you make a positive impact in the world.

Flexibility

Learn more about how our commitment to workplace flexibility puts you in the best position to be happy, comfortable, and effective.

Talent network

Visit our Talent network page to apply for a job, communicate with our talent acquisition team, or refer someone else for a job at CHG.

Recruiting process

Learn more about our hiring process and how we seek out the best opportunities for you to make an immediate impact.

The ultimate guide to getting hired at CHG Healthcare

Women who know how to get hired at CHG Healthcare

We truly believe in putting people first at CHG Healthcare — it’s our defining core value — and that includes putting candidates first! Whether you’ve interviewed with CHG before (and haven’t landed your dream job) or you’re doing your homework before applying for the first time, here are the resume tips and job interview tips you need to know to get hired at CHG Healthcare.

Resume tips that will help you stand out

Our recruiters review a lot of resumes for various open positions at CHG, so your first step in scoring a job interview is to craft a well-written, organized resume. Start with the basics:

  1. Write a summary that explains your career objective (if you’re new to the workforce) or briefly describe your past work experience (if you’re a seasoned professional).
  2. List the applicable jobs you’ve held in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent position. Include the month and year you started and ended each position (this helps recruiters to gauge your longevity as an employee).
  3. Highlight your achievements for each job. What did you accomplish that you’re particularly proud of?
  4. Include any education, including degrees and certifications you’ve earned that are relevant to the job you’re applying for.
CHG marketing group table

Next, focus on showcasing relevant abilities that match the job you want. Recruiters are looking for candidates with both traits and skills that will help them succeed in different positions. Here are a few examples:

Sales roles

  • Traits: Competitive, driven, and willing to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Skills: Experience with complex sales cycles and sourcing your own clients

Learn more: An overview of the different sales jobs at CHG

Support roles

  • Traits: Attention to detail and motivated to manage your own work
  • Skills: Specific education or experience that meets the hiring manager’s job description

How our jobs compare: What makes CHG unique among large companies

Leadership roles

  • Traits: Coaching ability with the desire to help other people grow
  • Skills: Previous experience leading and developing a team in a hybrid environment (both on-site and remote employees)

Remember to only list abilities you actually have. A large skills section on a resume can backfire, especially if you aren’t truly proficient in an area.

Consider including intangible traits like empathy, honesty, and positivity on your resume as well.

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Once you’ve put all the sections together, follow these resume tips and best practices to make it stand out:

  • Triple check for spelling and grammatical errors. Nothing hurts your credibility as a “detail-oriented” person more than a typo on your resume. Read the entire document out loud to yourself to ensure it’s as polished as possible and ask someone to proofread it for you.
  • Make it scannable. Use bullet points whenever possible rather than large blocks of text, which are hard to read and can make the recruiter lose interest.
  • Keep it simple. Only include information that adds value to your resume. Don’t include hobbies or interests (unless they relate to the position), and avoid company-specific jargon.
  • Use active verbs and numbers. In your experience section, begin each bullet point with a word that describes what you did for each role, like managedcreated, or developed, and then include output and results wherever possible. For example, you could include how many calls per day you averaged or how much revenue you generated for the business.
  • Only provide references if the recruiter asks for them. You have a limited amount of space on your resume, so create a separate document for professional and personal references and their contact information.

One last thing: CHG doesn’t require cover letters, so don’t worry about creating one!

Resume tips graphic - spelling and grammar, active verbs and numbers, keep it simple

Job interview tips that will help you make an impression

Frantically skimming the website for company details in the lobby before you meet with the sales manager is not on the “how to get hired at CHG” list. If you want to wow your potential boss, it’s important to spend some time preparing for your interview. These job interview tips will help.

Do your homework

Understand how CHG’s business model works (hint: knowing what locum tenens means is important), whether you’ll be talking directly with healthcare providers or working with the people who do. Become familiar with the company culture through our blog, and check out our FacebookTwitterInstagram, and LinkedIn pages to get a feel for those who already work here and those we serve.

Dress to impress in your job interview

In an era where virtual interviewing has become the norm, it’s easy to be too casual when you’re interviewing. Dress professionally, whether you’re meeting the hiring manager virtually or in person. You’ll make a better first impression and also show that you’re serious about getting hired at CHG.

Minimize distractions

Leave your phone in your pocket or bag so you won’t be tempted to look at it during an interview or become agitated when a text or call comes through. If you can, set it to “do not disturb” or silence notifications for 30 minutes so you can focus on answering interview questions.

Practice the STAR method

CHG’s recruiters look for candidates who can effectively answer questions asked in job interviews using the STAR method:

  • Situation: Describe a specific event from a previous job or relevant volunteer opportunity and provide enough detail for the interviewer to understand
  • Task: Explain the goal you were trying to achieve
  • Action: List the specific steps you took and your contributions to the goal rather than explaining what your team or company did
  • Result: Tell the interviewer what happened as a result of your actions, including what you accomplished and what you learned, and focus on positive results more than negative ones
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Answering questions with this method takes practice, so try it out by considering how you’d respond to these three common interview questions:

  • Can you tell me about a time when you disagreed with a coworker?
  • Will you describe a project you completed that you’re really proud of?
  • Can you share a situation where you had to make a quick decision?

Be confident during your job interview

Once you’re meeting the hiring manager or a team of coworkers for the first time, it’s important to show you have the right skill set, values, and culture fit to be successful working at CHG. Here are a few ways to do that.

Demonstrate a commitment to CHG’s core values

We’ve already talked about CHG’s emphasis on Putting People First, which includes being respectful of others and taking care of your community and your coworkers. CHG has four other core values recruiters consider when evaluating candidates for open positions:

  • Continuous Improvement: Do you look for ways to polish your skills, simplify processes, collaborate more effectively with others, and respond well to feedback?
  • Integrity and Ethics: Are you honest in all interactions, and do you strive to be transparent and trustworthy and to hold yourself and others accountable?
  • Quality and Professionalism: Is your work error free and as high quality as possible, and do others trust you to submit projects that meet clients’ needs and fulfill all requirements?
  • Growth: Have you set ambitious goals for yourself, are you committed to helping the company succeed, and can you share strategies and techniques with others to help everyone grow and improve?
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Along with these characteristics, recruiters look for applicants who are:

  • Coachable
  • Passionate (especially about making a difference in healthcare and in local communities)
  • Committed to progressing within the company

Explain the traits that have helped you be successful in other positions

Our recruiters recognize that employees come from diverse backgrounds. Most people who start work at CHG don’t have experience staffing healthcare providers and only recently discovered that locum tenens is Latin for “one holding a place." That’s OK! We’re looking for people who can demonstrate:

  • Consistency. Do you have a strong work ethic? If you are in a sales role, are you willing to call, text, and email healthcare providers throughout the day?
  • Altruism. Because CHG strives to make a difference in communities around the world by placing healthcare providers in underserved areas, we look for people who also demonstrate this commitment to serving others.
  • Trust. Putting People First is about focusing on your coworkers and teams but also about prioritizing the clients you work with. CHG employees are successful when they create partnerships.
Pull quote - Anyone can sell a job, but that's not what we do here - Michelle Loebl

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again

CHG’s hiring process is competitive, so you may not land a job with us the first time you apply — and you may not even land the job you applied for! Garrett Wolfe, who is now a business intelligence analyst, applied at CHG seven years ago for that same position. When he didn’t get the job and a recruiter suggested he try working in sales instead, Garrett took the challenge. After working in sales for a while, he moved to a role in CHG’s finance division before accepting his current position.

Pull quote - I realize how lucky I am - Garrett Wolfe

CHG Healthcare is a great place to work, and we want to hire great people. Follow these resume tips and job interview tips to make sure your best qualities shine through. We’re excited to meet you when you get hired at CHG.

Interested in joining the CHG Healthcare family? Check out our current openings!

About the author

Lindsay Wilcox

Lindsay Wilcox is a communication professional with experience writing for the healthcare and entertainment industries as well as local government. When she's not circling typos, she's enjoying fish tacos and hanging out with her family.

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