Case Study: NorthStar Anesthesia achieves 50% more positions filled and $200K/year recruiter savings with iCIMS

NorthStar Anesthesia Makes the Switch from Workday Recruiting to iCIMS’ Talent Acquisition Platform

NorthStar Anesthesia, a top-10 U.S. anesthesia management company operating in 200+ facilities with nearly 2,400 providers, struggled to recruit hard-to-find anesthesiologists and CRNAs using Workday’s included ATS. The system’s poor resume parsing, limited reporting, lack of candidate tagging and duplicate-detection, and manual workarounds slowed hiring, degraded candidate experience, and forced recruiters to maintain spreadsheets while talent supply tightened and costs rose.

NorthStar implemented iCIMS Recruit (integrated with Workday for HCM) and added iCIMS Connect for proactive pipelining, gaining flexible data entry, transparent candidate profiles, and robust analytics. Within four months they saw dramatic improvements — 50% more fills per month, a 40% drop in physician-vacancy rates, 2+ hours of recruiter productivity regained per day, and nearly $200,000 annualized savings — plus higher-quality new-hire data and stronger internal alignment.

NorthStar Anesthesia

Lindsey McMullen

Clinical Recruiter