A Confidential Senior Care & Assisted Living Search
When it comes to finding the right people to fill important roles at your senior care or assisted living community, you need a partner with experience recruiting in the industry. Some roles can be filled through a “typical” search, with public job postings and open networking. Others require more discretion, and a confidential search can be the solution.
A confidential search lets an organization fill a role under sensitive circumstances, with far more privacy than a wide-net public search allows. Any Aspen search can be conducted confidentially.
When is a confidential search advisable?
A confidential search is most appropriate when a leadership change must be made and:
- A vacancy in the role would disrupt service, or the current role-holder is underperforming but you can’t leave the seat empty during the search
- A planned retirement could affect key initiatives already underway
- A change in ownership is pending, and the new owners are not satisfied with the incumbent’s performance
- A role must be backfilled for a pending promotion that can’t yet be announced
- A high-profile position needs to be filled without tipping off the public or your competition
How we keep a search confidential
Outreach includes enough detail for candidates to understand the scope of the role and the opportunity it represents. Your name and location are withheld until you’ve reviewed a candidate’s profile and asked to move forward. At that stage, further details are shared before the candidate speaks with the hiring manager.
Interviews are conducted off-site or by video, so staff and residents never see an unfamiliar candidate on campus. All communication runs through a single contact you designate, and we add an extra layer of privacy and data security around every message.
Confidentiality works in both directions. Every candidate reviews and approves their own presentation before we release it to you, so the people we introduce trust us with their discretion too.
What to expect: timeline and process
A confidential search may take slightly longer than a standard search. Candidates are sourced strategically through direct outreach, your identity is revealed in stages rather than all at once, and interviews are scheduled around the person still in the role.
You’ll receive progress updates from the account manager overseeing our recruiting team, at a frequency based on the service you select. Retained searches include weekly reports covering how many candidates were contacted, screened, and interested. Candidate presentations follow, with a scoring grid and the recruiter’s notes.
Wondering how the rest of the process works, or what a search costs? See our general search process.
