We watched too many great specialist hires fall apart in year one.
After years inside Canadian dental staffing, first as practice owners ourselves, then on the recruiting side, we kept seeing the same pattern. Specialty practices would invest significant time and money into a placement, only to have the new specialist leave shortly after. Both sides walked away frustrated.
The problem wasn't the specialist or the practice. It was the process. Most generalist agencies are paid the moment a contract is signed, so they optimize for placement speed, not placement fit, and they don't have the network depth to source credentialed specialists in the first place.
We built Dental Recruiters around a different principle: focus exclusively on dental specialists, do the harder, slower work of cultural matching upfront, and stay engaged through onboarding so the match has every chance to succeed.
Specialist recruitment isn't a transaction, it's a long-term partnership. Our job is to make sure both the practice and the specialist still feel that way years from now.
