The healthcare ATS your nurse managers won't avoid logging into
Most healthcare applicant tracking systems were designed for compliance, not for the humans who actually use them. Draft is the healthcare ATS that nurse managers, recruiters, and HR teams open daily — because it actually saves them time.
1 day
Typical migration time from legacy healthcare ATS
12hrs
Recruiter hours saved per week with automation
$0
Free plan with unlimited candidates and jobs
4.9/5
Average rating from healthcare recruiters
Key capabilities
Modern visual pipeline
Drag-and-drop kanban boards replace the 47-click navigation of legacy healthcare ATS systems. Move candidates between stages in seconds, on desktop, tablet, or phone.
Specialty-aware candidate search
Find 'cardiac ICU RNs with active Florida licenses' in plain English. AI search understands clinical terminology, specialties, and credentials — no Boolean syntax required.
Application screening rules
Auto-reject candidates without required licenses, certifications, or years of experience. Auto-advance candidates who meet your top criteria. Your team only opens applications worth opening.
Multi-facility career pages
Branded career pages for every hospital, ambulatory site, or specialty clinic. Each can highlight its unique culture, patient population, and benefits — all managed from a single Draft account.
Built-in offer letter generation
Generate compliant offer letters with your standard sign-on bonuses, shift differentials, and benefits. Send them through Draft and track opens, signs, and rejections without leaving the system.
Slack and email integrations
Get real-time notifications when applicants come in, panels finish interviewing, or offers get accepted. Healthcare hiring moves fast — your ATS should keep up.
Why a healthcare ATS needs to be different
If your healthcare applicant tracking system was built more than five years ago, it almost certainly came from a corporate hiring template. The fields, workflows, and reporting were designed for someone hiring a marketing director, not a Med-Surg nurse. That mismatch shows up everywhere: required fields that don't apply to clinicians, missing fields that do (license number, specialty, shift preference), and a UI that nurse managers genuinely refuse to log into.
A modern healthcare ATS like Draft starts from the assumption that clinical hiring has its own rules. Pipelines are short — sometimes 2 stages for an experienced ICU nurse, sometimes 6 for a department director. Hiring managers are often clinicians themselves, working between patient rounds and administrative tasks. The interface needs to be fast on a phone in the staff lounge, not just a desktop in HR.
Replace your legacy ATS in under a day
Migrations from Taleo, iCIMS, or Workday Recruiting traditionally take 3-6 months and require IT consultants. Draft is different: most healthcare teams move their open requisitions and candidate database in a single afternoon. Import candidates from CSV, configure your pipelines, and launch your branded career pages — all without writing a single SQL query or filing a single ticket.
Once you're live, the productivity difference is immediate. Recruiters report saving 8-12 hours per week from automation alone. Nurse managers — who previously had to ask HR to pull candidate lists — now log in directly and review their own pipeline. The result: faster decisions, fewer dropped candidates, and recruiters who can actually take vacation.
Designed for the realities of clinical hiring
Healthcare hiring is shaped by three realities most ATS platforms ignore: (1) candidates have multiple offers and disappear within days if you're slow, (2) credentials and licenses must be tracked with hard expiration dates, and (3) every facility has slightly different needs. Draft addresses each directly.
Speed: automation handles 80% of candidate communication so a recruiter never has to remember to send a 'thanks for applying' email. Credentials: custom fields with expiration tracking flag candidates whose licenses lapse before start date. Flexibility: every facility can run its own pipeline, branded career page, and approval workflow — without forcing system-wide changes.
Pricing built for healthcare team realities
Enterprise healthcare ATS contracts often run $50K-$200K per year, plus implementation fees, plus per-user licensing. Draft has a free tier with unlimited candidates and unlimited jobs, with paid plans starting at less than the cost of a single travel-nurse week. Health systems that previously could only afford ATS access for their corporate HR team now extend it to every hiring manager.
There's no per-job-posting fee, no extra cost for branded career pages, and no upcharge for multi-facility support. The math is simple: an ATS that everyone in your organization can actually use is worth more than one that sits behind a paywall and a help desk.
Frequently asked questions
Three things: speed, usability, and price. Draft sets up in 2 minutes versus 3-6 months. The interface is modern and mobile-friendly so hiring managers actually use it. Pricing starts free, versus $50K+ enterprise contracts. Most teams that switch from legacy healthcare ATS platforms are live within a single afternoon.
Yes. Draft's brand and facility features let you run separate pipelines, career pages, and approval workflows for each hospital or clinic, while keeping system-level analytics and shared talent pools. Each site retains autonomy without losing the benefits of centralized recruiting infrastructure.
Yes. Custom fields capture license number, issuing state, and expiration date for any credential type — RN, LPN, CNA, NP, PA, MD, DO, allied health certifications, and more. Tags and filters let you find qualified candidates by credential in seconds.
Draft offers a CSV-based candidate export so you can transfer hired candidate data to systems like Workday, ADP, or UKG. We also have an API for custom integrations. For specific HRIS connections, contact us at sales@draft.jobs.
Absolutely. You can configure separate pipelines, automation rules, and email templates for travel, per-diem, contract, and full-time tracks. A travel nurse with a 13-week assignment doesn't need to go through the same hiring process as a permanent ICU director.
All applicant data is captured with full audit trails: who reviewed, who advanced, who rejected, and why. EEO, OFCCP, and Joint Commission reporting can be generated through Draft's analytics dashboard or exported to CSV.
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