A job board hands you an inbox. You needed a pipeline.
Per-listing dental job boards were built for single-practice owners posting one role at a time. If you operate multiple locations, the model itself works against you: you pay per posting, re-enter every role, and still run your actual hiring in spreadsheets. Here's the honest comparison.
What it means for you | Per-listing job boards | DSO Hire |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Per listing, per month: a 30-location group posting one role at three offices pays three times. Costs scale with your footprint. | One flat monthly fee covers every location you operate and every role you post. Your 30th location costs the same as your 3rd: nothing extra. |
| What you get | An inbox of applicants. Pipeline tracking, team review, and offers happen somewhere else, usually a spreadsheet and email. | A full ATS: realtime kanban pipeline, team comments and scorecards, automations and drip sequences, offer letters with approval chains. |
| Multi-location posting | Typically one practice at a time, so recruiters re-enter the same role over and over for each office. | Write the role once, assign it to as many practices as you need. Location-specific listings render automatically. |
| Your team | Usually one login. Office managers and regional directors share credentials or stay out of the loop. | Real seats with real roles: owners, admins, recruiters, and location-scoped hiring managers, each with tunable permissions. |
| Finding the right applicant | Most-recent-first, keyword search if you're lucky. You read every resume to find the fit. | Every applicant arrives scored by PracticeFit: schedule overlap, PMS fluency, clinical mix, commute. Strongest fits surface first. |
| Corporate / HQ roles | Built around clinical postings; a CFO or ops-director search sits awkwardly next to hygienist listings. | DSOFit scores corporate candidates on seniority, multi-site scale, and dental-domain depth, and confidential searches keep executive replacements quiet. |
| The candidate's experience | Re-upload the resume, re-type the work history, apply into a void. | One profile, free resume builder, fit scores on every opening, real status tracking. Candidates see where they stand. |
Where a job board is still the right call
If you run a single practice and hire once a year, a one-off listing is cheaper than any subscription, ours included. DSO Hire earns its fee when you operate multiple locations or hire continuously; that's exactly who it's built for. (Solo tier starts at 2 locations on purpose.)
Common questions.
Job boards charge per listing, per month, so costs scale with your footprint. DSO Hire is one flat monthly fee that covers every location you operate, starting at $399/mo on the Solo plan (up to 5 active openings). Your 30th location costs the same as your 3rd.
Yes. Write the role once and assign it to as many practices as you need. Location-specific listings render automatically, so nobody re-enters the same job for each office.
A full applicant tracking system: a realtime kanban pipeline, team comments and scorecards, automations and drip sequences, and offer letters with approval chains. Every applicant also arrives with a PracticeFit score, so the strongest fits surface first.
Yes. Owners, admins, recruiters, and location-scoped hiring managers each get a real seat with tunable permissions, instead of sharing one login.
If you run a single practice and hire once a year, a one-off listing is cheaper than any subscription, ours included. DSO Hire earns its fee when you operate multiple locations or hire continuously.
Stop renting listings. Own a pipeline.
One flat fee, every location, applicants ranked by fit. And we'll migrate your current postings for free.