S1 Ep162: From hello to hired, with Trent Cotton of iCIMS
About this episode
This episode discusses the challenges and strategies in health care hiring with insights from Trent Cotton of iCIMS.
Health care hiring is in a strange place. Clinical job applications jumped 10% at the start of 2026, yet the gap between open positions and actual hires keeps widening, a sign that getting candidates in the door is only half the battle. In this episode, Medical Economics Managing Editor Todd Shryock speaks with Trent Cotton, head of talent insights at iCIMS, about what the data reveals and what physician practices can do with it. Cotton explains why so many candidates drop out between the application and the offer, how smaller practices can out-recruit enterprise hospital systems by competing on candidate experience and why pay transparency in a job posting keeps the hiring funnel clean. He also digs into the friction that drives applicants away, the two factors that most influence whether staff stay and where AI genuinely belongs in hiring, from automated scheduling to the conversations that should always stay human. Music Credits: Steady State of Mind by Yigit Atilla - stock.adobe.com A Textbook Example by Skip Peck - stock.adobe.com Editor's note: Episode timestamps and transcript produced using AI tools. 0:00 – 0:26 | Sponsor message Copic medical liability insurance . 0:26 –…
Topics covered
- health care hiring
- candidate experience
- physician practices
- data insights
- recruitment strategies
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