BluePipes FAQs
Quickly find answers to the most commonly asked questions from travel healthcare professionals, agencies and recruiters. Or, contact us below!
FAQs for Travel Healthcare Professionals
What is BluePipes?
BluePipes is a professional networking platform dedicated to the healthcare industry. As such, it enables members to invite their current colleagues and find new connections who share similar interests in order to build their healthcare professional networks free and clear of the outside noise that dominates general networking platforms. Moreover, our dedication to the healthcare industry allows us to provide unique and valuable solutions to the career related problems faced by healthcare professionals and employers.
What services does BluePipes provide for travel healthcare professionals?
BluePipes provides a host of valuable services for travel healthcare and PRN professionals. They include:
- A profile builder designed by industry experts to help you identify and record the vital career details that hospitals and healthcare staffing agencies typically require.
- Access to over over 100 comprehensive skills checklists that can be completed and saved at your convenience.
- A document rendering feature that lets you render your profile as a PDF resume and/or a full job application complete with all the signing statements that employers typically require. Your skills checklists can also be rendered to PDF and packaged with your resume and/or application.
- A document storage system so you can save and easily email copies of your licenses, certifications, credentials and BluePipes documents at your convenience from anywhere you have an internet connection. Each member receives 100 megabytes of storage space. This way, all your vital career documentation stays organized in one central and secure location.
- An availability feature that allows you to display your availability for your next job or assignment. This way, you can manage your job searches more effectively and efficiently.
There are many other amazing features currently available and planned for the future!
What does it cost?
All BluePipes features are free for healthcare professionals!
Is my personal contact information kept private?
YES!! BluePipes will never sell your personal contact information to third parties.
Does BluePipes sell access to my information?
The only information that is visible to anyone, including your connections, is what appears on your public profile. Your public profile includes a limited set of information and is similar to what is displayed with any other professional network. BluePipes does not allow third parties to access or download any other information or documents that you store with the service.
How can I send my profile and documents to agencies and recruiters?
With BluePipes, you have complete control over who receives your documentation. You can use the BluePipes File Cabinet feature to easily email copies of your BluePipes resume, application and skills checklists as well as the career related documents you upload. You can also use the Profile Download feature to download your resume, application and skills checklists, save them on your computer, and email them at your convenience.
Does every healthcare staffing agency accept BluePipes documents?
BluePipes is revolutionizing the healthcare career management and recruitment process. You can say that our services “disrupt” the current status quo in which healthcare staffing agencies require you to complete a tedious applicant tracking system process.
Many of the best healthcare staffing agencies realize that the current process is a major inconvenience for their clients and have already acknowledged that they accept BluePipes documents. If healthcare professionals reward those companies, then others will follow suit in an effort to remain competitive. And remember, you can send your BluePipes documents to any agency you want. If you complete your profile and skills checklist in their entirety, agencies will be hard pressed to deny them.
Which agencies have verified they accept BluePipes documents?
We maintain a list of agencies that have contacted us to verify they accept your BluePipes documents. You can find the list here.
Does BluePipes charge agencies to receive my documents?
No, there is no charge for sending or receiving your documents.
How can I build my professional network on BluePipes?
You can invite your colleagues via email through the BluePipes Connect platform. You can also search for members already on BluePipes, including companies and recruiters, using the Advanced Search feature and send them connection requests via their BluePipes profile page.
FAQs for Agencies and Recruiters
Can recruiters join BluePipes?
YES!! BluePipes welcomes recruiters and they can create a free profile by selecting “Employer/Other” as their “Field” when signing up.
What’s the benefit of creating a free recruiter profile?
Recruiters can realize many benefits from creating a free profile. They include:
- Potential inquiries and connection requests from BluePipes members: Members have access to advanced search features that allow them to find recruiters who may be able to help them achieve their career goals. Members are also able to send connection requests to 2nd degree connections for free. So you can potentially land new candidates just by completing your profile.
- Referral business: By building your professional network on BluePipes, you’ll be able to view profiles and determine if you have shared connections with new candidates. You can then request an introduction by simply messaging your shared connection.
- Simplifying your recruitment efforts: We’re sure you’ve noticed that candidates do not like filling out applications and skills checklists. Make their life simpler by inviting them to connect with you on BluePipes. You’ll be viewed as a lifesaver and you can request that they send you their documents when ready.
Does BluePipes have Company Pages?
YES! BluePipes has a feature that allows members to submit company-page “Claim Requests” for the companies listed as their current employers. You’ll notice that the names of the companies you have listed in your profile work history are links. Simply click on the link for your current company and you’ll see a “Claim” or “Join” button. Click the button and follow the steps!
What is the benefit of claiming a company page?
Claiming your company page allows you to edit the Company’s details and gets your brand in front of thousands of potential candidates. It also unlocks access to our premium services like Job Postings and Recruitment Subscriptions.
Can recruiters connect with healthcare professionals on BluePipes?
YES!! There are several ways that recruiters can connect with healthcare professionals on BluePipes. They include:
- Inviting them to connect: Use the BluePipes Connect page to invite your colleagues to join you on BluePipes.
- Get invited to connect: Healthcare professionals can search for and send connection requests to recruiters at their convenience.
- Connect through name search: Recruiters can search for members by name. If you find a member that you know, then you can request to connect with them as long as you have the email address they used to create the account.
- Recruitment Subscription: You can purchase a Recruitment Subscription which gives you access to advanced search features to search the public profile information of members and send connection requests without having the email address of members.
How can recruiters obtain profiles from BluePipes members?
The only way to receive a member’s BluePipes profile is for the member to send it to you themselves. We do not sell contact information or access to candidate information to third parties. We are not a lead generator.
Why should my agency accept BluePipes documents?
Simply put, accepting BluePipes documents will improve your sales. Not only will you be simplifying your recruitment process for candidates, but you will reduce the time it takes to get candidates submitted, giving you an advantage over your competitors. And remember, many of your competitors are already accepting BluePipes documents.
Don’t I need candidates to complete my own documents?
The simple answer is NO, you do not need candidates to complete your own documents. We realize that it’s convenient to have your candidates complete your application process because it gets them into your applicant tracking system. However, it’s also costing you valuable business. Consider the following:
- Over 70% of travel nurses polled would be more likely to work with an agency if they didn’t have to complete the application process.
- Studies reveal that lengthier application processes result in higher applicant abandonment rates. And the travel healthcare application process is among the lengthiest of all processes.
- It’s simple to upload BluePipes documents into any applicant tracking system just as you would any other document that the candidate sends you. From there, they can be sent to client hospitals just as any other document would.
- If you wanted to, you could take the time to enter the candidate’s information into your ATS for them. This process would take less than 2 hours and we’re sure that every agency would be happy if their recruiters got a new submission every 2 hours!
- If the BluePipes profile is not completed in it’s entirety, then you can work with the candidate to get it done just as you would with your current application process.
It’s a competitive market and making things simpler for your candidates will give you a leg up on the competition.
Does accepting BluePipes documents conflict with JCAHO?
No, accepting BluePipes documents does not conflict with JCAHO requirements. BluePipes has consulted with respected staffing industry JCAHO consultants who have clearly stated that there are no conflicts with JCAHO. This is why so many JCAHO certified agencies are already confidently accepting BluePipes documents.
How can my company be added to BluePipes’ list of verified agencies?
We advertise our list of verified agencies via social media channels and in our monthly newsletter that goes out to thousands of members. You can add your agency to the list by simply contacting us from the list landing page.
