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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Brian Hughes, founder of Great Bay Staffing — Brian Hughes

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

A one-person firm with a global bench.

NPAworldwide is a global network of independent recruiting firms. Member agencies work each other's searches directly — sharing candidates, market knowledge and reach that no single firm holds alone. Membership is by referral and vetted; firms are admitted for specialty depth, not volume.

Brian Hughes leads the network's Healthcare Practice Group: 75+ healthcare-focused agencies within a network of more than 500 firms worldwide.

What it means for you: a search that needs national reach gets it, and you still have one point of contact.

Send a job description. Get a one-page snapshot back.

Free. No call required.

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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