I spent 15+ years in recruiting, including as a VP of Talent Acquisition responsible for hiring surgical technologists and OR support staff. I watched qualified scrub techs get buried on general job boards under postings that had nothing to do with the OR. This board exists to fix that.
Matthew Sorensen — VP of Talent Acquisition (former), author of four books on hiring and interviewing, host of the Hired podcast (top 0.5% of career podcasts worldwide, 1,000+ Spotify ratings). Featured in SHRM and ABC News.
Sitting on the hiring side of perioperative roles teaches you something the job boards never learned: a surgical technologist's search is nothing like a general healthcare search. Case type matters. Call requirements matter. Whether the OR runs robotics matters. None of that survives a keyword filter on a site that indexes every job in America.
Every posting here is a scrub tech, surgical tech, or OR tech role. The guides are written from the recruiter's side of the table, covering what hiring managers actually ask in OR interviews and how new grads get hired without experience.
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Matthew Sorensen, a recruiting professional with more than 15 years of experience, including a role as Vice President of Talent Acquisition with direct responsibility for hiring surgical technologists and OR support staff.
General job boards index every job in the country, which means a scrub tech search returns sterile processing, surgical sales, and medical assistant roles alongside actual OR positions. A niche board removes the noise and lets postings carry the details that matter to a surgical tech, such as case type, call requirements, and setting.
Yes. Searching jobs and using the guides and salary tools costs nothing for job seekers.
They are written from the hiring side. Instead of restating what a surgical technologist does, they cover how OR managers screen resumes, what gets asked in a perioperative interview, and where new grads typically break in.