Best med spa recruiters and job boards

How were these recruiters and job boards ranked?

The list is the 19 companies in recruitment and staffing on MedSpaVendorGuide, sorted by score and then by name.

Each score is a set of yes or no checks on what a company publishes on its own website, grouped into five weighted sub-scores: pricing transparency, terms and commitment, med spa fit, proof and track record, and support and onboarding.

The score measures how much a buyer can check before a sales call, not how good a product or agency is, and every check is listed on how we score.

No company can pay to change a score or a place in the list.

AestheticHires is owned by the publisher of this site, and it goes through the same checks as every other company here.

What does a med spa job board charge?

A job board sells postings: you write the ad, it goes live for a stated period, and candidates apply to you.

Published monthly starting prices in US dollars run from $25 for 30 days of unlimited posts at SalonEmployment to $249 a month at Wizehire, which is hiring software rather than a board.

AestheticHires sells a one-time payment per listing or a monthly subscription for a fixed number of listing slots, with no contract.

MedSpa Recruiting charges a single one-time payment for unlimited job posts.

JobSnob sells one-time job-post packages and runs a concierge recruiting service whose fee is not published.

Spa Staff.com posts job ads free and charges for candidate contact details, and it is the only company here that states a free trial.

SalonJobs posts jobs free for salons and spas in the Northeastern United States, funded by the sponsor Mangomint.

craigslist charges a fee per posting that varies by area, and Health eCareers sells postings that each run 30 days with optional paid add-ons.

PracticeMatch sells postings by type, number of jobs and months, and the ISPA Career Center includes postings with a one-year membership while nonmembers pay a per-post fee that is not published.

LinkedIn Talent Solutions does not publish prices.

How do med spa recruiters charge?

A recruiter is paid for filling the role, and the only placement fee published in this category is a percentage of the hire's first-year base salary.

ScrubOps sets its fee that way and charges nothing if the practice does not hire.

OnCall Medical Aesthetics Recruiting sells a fixed-fee 30-day marketing campaign, and its full-service recruiting fee is not published.

Diamond Accelerator places and onboards candidates, does not publish prices, and states that the client does not pay if a placed candidate does not perform.

Aesthetic Recruitment, a United Kingdom firm that recruits for clinics, device makers and injectable companies worldwide, and Medical Edge Recruitment, a healthcare staffing agency with a medical aesthetics staffing page for Dallas, do not publish prices.

DermAesthetic Consulting sells recruiting alongside funding, launch and growth consulting, and Skytale Group is an investment banking and management consulting firm with a medical aesthetics practice; its published services include capital raising and sell-side M&A.

10 of the 19 publish a starting price and the other 9 do not; how much med spa recruiting costs collects what is published.

When does a job board fit?

You are filling a defined role, you can write the ad yourself, and you want applications coming straight to you.

MedSpa Recruiting covers repeated hiring, with candidates matched by license type, market and experience.

JobSnob reviews each post before it goes live, and its concierge service takes over the search for an owner who would rather not run it.

AestheticHires sells a one-time payment per listing or a monthly subscription for a fixed number of listing slots, with role and city pages for injectors, estheticians and laser techs and listings indexed in Google Jobs.

SalonJobs and craigslist fit a local post: SalonJobs serves salons, spas and barbershops in the Northeastern United States at no cost, and craigslist charges a per-post fee that varies by area.

Spa Staff.com fits a worldwide search where you want to browse CVs yourself and pay only for the contacts you choose.

When does a recruiter or staffing firm fit?

The hire is licensed, senior or hard to fill, and you would rather pay when a placement happens.

ScrubOps covers injectors, nurse practitioners, practice managers and front-office roles, and publishes its fee up front.

OnCall Medical Aesthetics Recruiting offers full-service headhunting with direct outreach to passive candidates, or a fixed-fee 30-day marketing campaign that posts the role and screens resumes.

Diamond Accelerator places a candidate and handles the hire's onboarding, alongside consulting and digital marketing.

Aesthetic Recruitment, a firm based in the United Kingdom, runs searches for aesthetic clinics, device makers and injectable companies worldwide.

Medical Edge Recruitment supplies direct hire, local contract, per diem and travel staffing, with a medical aesthetics staffing page for Dallas, Texas.

For a physician, medical director, nurse practitioner or physician assistant search, PracticeMatch and Health eCareers are clinician job boards with candidate databases, and JobSnob and OnCall Medical Aesthetics Recruiting both list medical director staffing or headhunting among their services.

How to choose a med spa recruiter or job board walks through that decision in more detail.

What does the category publish, and what does it leave out?

7 of the 19 publish their contract terms: 2 of them are month to month, and the fixed terms where stated run from 30-day posting increments (PracticeMatch) to a one-year membership (ISPA Career Center).

6 publish cancellation or refund terms, 6 offer a demo or audit, 2 publish a case study result, and 1 states a free trial.

6 of the 19 describe themselves as exclusive to medical aesthetics; the others do not claim that exclusive focus. Some serve the wider beauty and wellness industry, such as SalonEmployment and SalonJobs, or all of healthcare, such as Health eCareers and PracticeMatch.

Where a site is silent, its profile here says "Not published" rather than an estimated price or term.

What should I ask before I pay?

What the fee covers beyond the starting price, and which add-ons cost extra.

When the commitment ends, what notice is needed, and what is refundable.

If it is a recruiter: what share of first-year salary the placement fee is, when it is owed, and whether a replacement is included if the hire leaves.

Who owns the candidate records you build, and whether you can export them if you cancel.

Who the candidates are, where they come from, and whether the audience is med spa only.