Employer Resource

Frequently Asked Questions for Employers

Healthcare recruitment is not like hiring for a retail shop or an office. You are dealing with AHPRA compliance, fellowship pathways, Medicare billing structures and a shortage of qualified hands. Navigating a recruitment platform should not add to your headache.

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Getting Started & Tech Setups

Straight answers for busy healthcare employers

Q: How do I create a Med Jobs Australia for Employers account for free?

A: It takes less than two minutes. Click the “Create Account” button at the top of our homepage, add your clinic or hospital details, and verify your email. You can instantly start drafting your first job listing and access baseline candidate market data without spending a dollar.

Q: Does Med Jobs Australia integrate with my internal ATS?

A: Yes. Our platform integrates with leading Applicant Tracking Systems and hospital HR software so your job posts and candidate pipelines can sync automatically instead of forcing your team to double-handle data.

Q: How long until my job ad goes live and is visible to doctors?

A: Once you submit your listing, our compliance team runs a fast verification check to ensure it meets safety and professional standards. Your ad is typically live, indexed and appearing in job seeker feeds across Australia within an hour.

Sourcing, Screening & Winning Top Talent

Straight answers for busy healthcare employers

Q: How can I contact candidates who haven’t applied to my job yet?

A: Smart Sourcing lets you search a live database of medical resumes instead of waiting for applications. When you find a VR GP, registrar, nurse or allied health professional who fits your criteria, use Quick Contact to send a preset invite to apply.

Q: How does the platform help me screen out unqualified applicants?

A: When building your job description, you can add custom clinical screening questions and mandatory checkboxes such as active AHPRA registration, FRACGP or FACRRM status, and Australian working rights. Applicants who miss your deal-breakers are automatically separated.

Q: Can Med Jobs Australia help with high-volume hiring or sudden locum crunches?

A: Yes. Enterprise tools support batch processing, multiple talent pools and high-volume matching workflows for hospital rosters, corporate multi-disciplinary networks and sudden seasonal staffing pressures.

Q: How can the platform help build our local employer branding?

A: Branded Spotlight Pages help you showcase your team, flexible billing splits, treatment rooms, workplace culture and practice strengths so candidates see more than a plain text vacancy.

Budgets, Sponsoring & The Fine Print

Straight answers for busy healthcare employers

Q: What are the actual benefits of a Sponsored Job vs. a Free Post?

A: A free post works for passive, non-urgent hiring. Sponsoring gives your ad first-page visibility, priority job-seeker email exposure and access to Matched Candidates that fit your role description.

Q: Can sponsoring an ad genuinely improve our clinic’s time-to-hire?

A: Yes. Sponsored listings bypass clutter and target job seekers by clinical skills and location. Matched candidates you actively invite to apply are 22.7X more likely to apply than practitioners who only discover the role in general search results.

Q: How much does it cost to sponsor a position?

A: You stay in control. There are no lock-in contracts. We recommend a daily baseline budget based on role type and location, but you can set a strict total cap and pause or stop the campaign once the roster gap is filled.

Q: Can I post a medical job vacancy without publicly listing the salary or billing split?

A: You can leave salary fields blank, but we strongly advise against it. Modern Australian medical candidates expect transparency, and clear billing percentage ranges or base packages improve high-value click-through rates.

Q: How do I manage, edit, or cancel my active job post?

A: Everything lives inside your Employer Dashboard. You can update descriptions, adjust pay rates, change location parameters, modify daily budgets or mark the role as Filled with a single click.

Compliance, Billing & Contracts

Straight answers for busy healthcare employers

Q: How do I handle jobs that offer a percentage of billings instead of a base salary?

A: Our job templates let you list a percentage range, such as 65% to 70% of gross billings, alongside an initial guaranteed hourly minimum. This reflects common Australian GP and dental hiring models while giving candidates the transparency they expect.

Q: Can we post an ad for a position subject to a 19AB or 19AA moratorium?

A: Yes. You can tag ads with compliance parameters such as “Open to Section 19AB exemption seekers” or “Requires Non-Corporate Medicare Provider Number” so restricted doctors and IMGs can find suitable roles quickly.

Q: What should we do if a candidate’s AHPRA registration is under review or limited?

A: Use custom screening questions to require candidates to state their exact registration type. If conditions apply or an outcome is pending, flag the profile as Pending Verification and leave secure internal notes for partner review.

Q: Can I pause our job ad if our roster is temporarily full?

A: Absolutely. Toggle the ad to Paused in your Employer Dashboard. If it is a Premium Sponsored campaign, this instantly stops daily budget spend until you switch it back to Active.

Q: Does the platform provide medical-specific contracts once an offer is accepted?

A: We support recruitment, screening and initial offer letter templates, but we do not provide binding legal or medical employment contracts. Australian healthcare awards and contractor agreements are complex, so final contracts should be reviewed by a medical defence organisation or qualified legal professional.

Locum Placements, Moratoriums & Regional Incentives

Straight answers for busy healthcare employers

Q: How do we list a job with regional grants, relocation allowances or retention incentives?

A: Use dedicated highlight fields inside the job template to call out Workforce Incentive Program streams, state-specific relocation grants, retention bonuses, car leases or other regional advantages.

Q: Can we post single-day or weekend-only locum shifts?

A: Yes. You can specify anything from a six-month rural block booking to a weekend back-fill, emergency department shift or single-day Saturday clinic. List the day rate, hourly guarantee, travel coverage and accommodation clearly.

Q: How does Med Jobs Australia help us target doctors unrestricted by Section 19AB?

A: Smart Sourcing filters let you refine candidate pools beyond basic credentials. You can search for profiles marked as Unrestricted / 19AB Exempt or Looking exclusively for non-DPA roles.

Q: What happens if a candidate needs sponsorship for a Temporary Skill Shortage visa?

A: Custom screening questions can require candidates to declare visa status and working rights up front. Profiles that need sponsorship are automatically flagged so your team can assess sponsorship capacity before interview.

Q: Can we hide our practice name or list an ad anonymously?

A: Yes. Use Private Listing mode to display a professional placeholder, such as “Established General Practice - Sydney Inner West,” while safely screening initial resumes before revealing your clinic identity during phone screening.

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