Healthcare

Own the base every
hire comes from.

Applicants, referrals and the nurses Atlas finds all land in one place — and the asking, the calling back and the follow-up run on their own. What you read is a live picture of who can actually start on the ward, and when.

Built for people who apply from the ward corridor. No login, no app.
Care homes & senior livingHospitals & clinics Practices & MVZHome care services
The quiet corridor of a care home between two shifts, an empty armchair beside the handrail
Stadt Stuttgart Mainzer Stadtwerke LVM Versicherung Königsteiner
The problem

They never
reach you.

Nobody applies.

78.2% of open elderly-care roles stay vacant. The inbox is empty because reach is the problem, not the ranking.

The form does the filtering.

More than 60% of applicants abandon the application form. CV, cover letter, account: three walls before anyone talks.

The channel is wrong.

Only 13.5% of providers accept a WhatsApp application. Care staff live on their phones between shifts, and most processes ignore that.

Sources: BA / KOFA 2024 · fokus›digital 2026

Where to start

Pick the door that
fits your problem.

Referrals, screening and sourcing are three doors into the same base — and the fourth is what keeps the people who came through them. Take one, add the others when you need them; nothing has to be set up twice.

Recruiting & Hiring
A nurse in blue scrubs, arms folded, in the corridor of a care home
Start here in care 01Referrals

Who on the ward already knows the right nurse?

Nurses know nurses. Sprad asks your own people, on the channel they already use, and keeps asking after week one.

30–50% of all hires can come from referrals, done right, across the whole workforce.
WhatsAppSMSNo company emailNo login
The opening goes to the people it actually fits — not one all-staff email in week one.
One tap forwards it into the training-class group chat. A shared link, nothing to install.
Every referral arrives with a colleague's judgment attached.
Rewards from the first share, not only after the probation period.
02Screening

Who answers the applicant before the shift ends?

A real phone call the minute the application lands — or a web chat, if that suits them better.

Phone callWeb chatVoice or video12 languages
What comes back
Professional licencecleared
German B2cleared
Rotating & night shiftscleared
Measles immunity proofstill open
Licence, recognition status and German level asked and recorded — each with the quote it came from.
Pausable: break off when the shift starts, pick it back up after.
No slot to book, so there is nothing to not show up to.
A decision-ready report lands in your ATS, honest feedback goes to the candidate.

Documents are still verified by a human. You just know before the callback whether it is worth making one.

03Sourcing

Who goes looking when nobody applies?

You brief the role in two minutes. Atlas searches, writes the outreach and pre-qualifies every reply.

A briefing from this field
Registered nurse · Berlin
State recognitionRotating & night shiftsRecognition route, non-EU Measles proof §20 IfSGDriving licence B for toursEarliest realistic start
Atlas: “Got it. I'll start with registered nurses around Berlin and show you the first matches to vote on.”
Finds the nurses and care assistants who never read a job ad.
Outreach runs on Sprad's own verified stack, never through your accounts.
You vote matches up or down, and Atlas learns your taste live.
You meet a shortlist of people ready to talk, booked into your calendar.
04Growth

Who keeps the nurses you already have?

In care, losing one costs more than finding one. Every departure sends you back through the whole search, in the tightest labour market there is. The same base that got someone hired is the one that keeps them: what they can do, what they want next, and how they are actually doing on the ward.

Why referrals lead here

Your own people are the
channel that already works.

Every provider has a referral programme on paper. The question is whether anyone takes part — and that is decided by whether it reaches the ward at all.

5× higher usage than alternative solutions.

Alternative providers and ATS modules focus on the referral process. Sprad focuses on whether people actually take part — through a platform they can use and direct communication on Teams, Slack, WhatsApp and SMS. Which is the whole point on a ward, where most staff have no company email at all.

55% faster hiring through employee referrals time-to-hire vs. job ads
82% of employers rank referrals as their best ROI compared across recruiting channels
30 to 50% of all hires can come from referrals done right, across the whole workforce
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One Talent Base

Every road leads
into the same base.

Whoever applies, gets referred or gets sourced keeps one living profile — owned by them, readable by you. Every door makes it richer, and your ATS stays in the loop. The care assistant you turned down in March is the ward nurse you need in September.

Your Systems
Talent Market
Your Modules
Mai Nguyen
Maria Keller
Mara Klein
David Schmidt
Petra Lang
Jonas Berger
Sourcing Screening Referrals Performance Your HRIS Your ATS
Owned by the talent
One Talent Base
Living profilesDeep contextAlways in sync

Living profiles

Talent keep their own profile current, because it works for them too. So your pool never ages: whoever said no two years ago is findable and current today.

Deep context

More than a CV: licence and recognition status, shift readiness, language level, evidence from real conversations. Every rating links back to the sentence it came from.

Always in sync

Sprad runs both ways with the ATS and HR system you already have. No migration, no second tool to maintain — your team keeps working where it always has.

FAQ

What this field asks.

What does “own the base” actually mean for us?

Everyone who ever applied, was referred or was sourced sits in one place that belongs to you — not in an inbox, not in a spreadsheet, not in an agency's system. The profile itself belongs to the person, which is why they keep it current. You can search it, you can see the evidence behind every entry, and you can take it with you if you ever change your ATS.

Does the AI check whether someone is actually a registered nurse?

It asks and records the answer as a hard fact: licence, recognition status, and where the qualification was obtained. It does not decide. The answer lands in your ATS as a checked data point with the exact quote attached, so your team verifies documents once instead of chasing them by phone.

Most of our applicants don't speak German as a first language. Does that work?

The interview runs in the candidate's own language, twelve of them, and the report comes back in German so your ward manager can read it. Language level is only assessed when you list it as a requirement, and then separately from the professional assessment.

Our applicants apply from their phones between shifts. Is that a problem?

It's the design assumption. Invitation by WhatsApp, email or a direct phone call; the conversation itself runs as a call or a web chat and needs no app, no login and no password; and it can be paused and resumed if a shift starts.

We're a church-run provider. What about the MAV?

The same documentation that satisfies a works council satisfies an MAV: what is asked, what is scored, what is excluded from scoring, and where the data sits. We provide it as a template you can take into the committee.

What happens to the people we don't hire?

They keep their profile in the candidate portal and get honest feedback and matching roles. For you they stay in a talent pool that keeps itself current, which matters more in care than anywhere else.

Do we need all three doors at once?

No. Most providers start with referrals, because your own people are the channel that already works, and add screening as soon as applicants start arriving. Sourcing switches on later, on the same base, without a new setup.

Do we have to replace our ATS?

No. Sprad runs on top of the ATS you already use, and results land where your team already works. If you don't have one, ours is free.

See it on your own role.

Fifteen minutes, your vacancy, your numbers.