Healthcare staffing gaps aren’t temporary anymore, they’re structural. Rising census swings, unpredictable patient volumes, and shrinking clinical pipelines have pushed hospitals to rethink how they build and manage a contingent workforce. For many health systems, the frustration isn’t just about shortages. It’s about vendor dependency, inflated markups, slow fills, and zero ownership of their talent pipeline and that’s where SkillGigs CTM comes in.
SkillGigs’ Contingent Talent Marketplace (CTM) was built to solve exactly that problem, giving hospitals a branded workforce marketplace they control, backed by SkillGigs’ EOR/AOR protection, compliance, and healthcare-specific credentialing.
If your goal is to build a flexible, future-ready contingent workforce, this guide walks you through exactly how to use SkillGigs CTM to get there.
1. Make Your Workforce Yours Again
Traditional vendor-driven models create dependency. Hospitals wait 11+ weeks on agencies, pay opaque markups, and lose visibility into talent quality.
With CTM, the model shifts:
- Your brand, your marketplace, your data
- Direct bids, clear rates, CFO-ready reporting
- 5–6 week time-to-fill instead of the 11-week vendor average
- SkillGigs serves as EOR/AOR, eliminating co-employment risk
- Ownership is the foundation of flexibility.
- You can’t build a dynamic, always-ready workforce if the talent doesn’t belong to you.
2. Stock the Marketplace With Real, Qualified Clinicians
A flexible workforce starts with a living pipeline, not empty reqs.
CTM helps you continuously stock your marketplace with:
- Your ATS applicants
- Alumni clinicians
- Referrals
- Nurses, Allied Health, and Locum Tenens from the SkillGigs network
This gives you a talent pool that grows over time, not one you restart from scratch with every req.
3. Drive the Right Demand Into Your Marketplace
Once your marketplace is stocked, SkillGigs helps you keep clinicians flowing in through:
- Always-on campaigns
- Targeted attraction strategies
- Marketplace-level engagement
This ensures your pipeline stays full, especially during:
- Seasonal census spikes
- Hard-to-fill specialty needs
- Rapid backfill situations
Instead of scrambling for candidates, you have a steady inflow of clinicians ready to bid.
4. Match, Redeploy, and Reduce Agency Spend
This is where hospitals see the biggest transformation.
CTM supports:
- Transparent bidding
- AI-driven matching between your roles and clinician skills
- Automatic redeployment of proven talent
Redeployment is one of the most valuable parts of the model:
You no longer lose strong clinicians after a contract ends and they stay in your marketplace as reusable, known, credentialed talent.
This builds:
- Workforce predictability
- Lower overall spend
- Higher retention
- Dramatically less agency reliance (systems see 80%+ reduction)
5. Compliance, Credentialing, and Protection Built In
Healthcare staffing flexibility means nothing if compliance breaks.
CTM includes full support for:
- Credentialing
- License checks
- Backgrounds
- Immunizations
- Joint Commission alignment
- EOR/AOR classification protection
SkillGigs works as the vendor of record so your system stays protected while you maintain marketplace ownership. This is how hospitals scale contingent staffing without adding operational burden.
6. Use CTM’s Analytics to Plan Ahead, Not React Later
With vendor-driven models, hospitals fly blind.
CTM gives you transparent visibility across:
- Time-to-fill
- Spend
- Talent performance
- Pipeline health
- Market demand
- Skills distribution
These insights help leaders plan future staffing needs rather than react to emergencies.
Flexibility requires forecasting, and CTM gives systems the reporting they need to make confident staffing decisions.
7. Build a System That Becomes More Efficient Over Time
The best part of using SkillGigs CTM? It compounds.
Every month your:
- Marketplace becomes richer
- Redeployment gets stronger
- Time-to-fill decreases
- Spend drops
- Vendor dependency shrinks
- Pipeline ownership deepens
- Most staffing strategies hit diminishing returns.
- CTM gets better the longer you use it.
Why CTM Is the Future of Flexible Healthcare Staffing
Hospitals today need a model that gives them:
- Speed
- Control
- Transparent rates
- Direct access to talent
- Protection from co-employment risk
- Better retention via redeployment
- Predictable pipelines
- Healthcare-specific compliance
- CTM delivers all of this in one unified, hospital-branded marketplace.
If your goal is to move from staffing instability to a flexible, self-sustaining workforce, SkillGigs CTM is the clearest path forward.
Ready to see how your own branded marketplace works?
Book a SkillGigs CTM demo and see how health systems are cutting time-to-fill from 11 weeks to 5–6 weeks.
Want to reduce vendor reliance and build a workforce you actually control?
Learn how CTM helps hospitals reduce agency reliance by up to 80%.
