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Hiring for care businesses with 10–50 staff, where every hire needs a check before their first shift

You’ve got clients to staff. Not ninety resumes to read.

Post the caregiver ad once. First Shift reads every application against it, scores who actually fits, flags the registry check, TB and CPR you’d verify by hand, and gives you the three people to call before the client’s start date.

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Flat price. Unlimited users. Posting your first job takes about five minutes. Works with the Indeed inbox you already have.
Caregiver / HHA — weekends, Plano TX112 applied · sorted by fit

New

91 fit, highPriya N.Registry clear · CNA · 4 yrs dementia care
64 fit, mediumDaniel K.No car · suits the live-in role
38 fit, lowSam R.No registry check stated · verify

To ring

86 fit, highTom A.CPR current · TB March 2026
79 fit, highGrace O.Left a franchise, wants steady hours

Interview

88 fit, highMei L.Thu 2pm · hospice exp · refs in
Red flagNo registry check stated — verify before you call
Why the scoreRegistry clear, CNA, 4 yrs dementia care, weekends, own car
Reads every resume against your adScores fit 0–100 and flags the checks you'd verify by handSearch in plain English across every applicantSends the emails you never get toAsk it questions from Claude or ChatGPT

Who it’s for

Built for the owner who does the hiring between the schedule and the state survey.

Independent home care agencies. Small ABA practices. Disability support providers. The owner, office manager or scheduler who posts the ad on Indeed, reads the applications, and also runs the schedule.

Not for: franchise locations on the brand’s hiring tool, Medicare-certified home health with an HR department, agencies with 50-plus caregivers and a recruiter, or anyone who wants a suite with ninety settings.

An Indeed inbox and a spreadsheet

One list, every applicant, sorted by fit

Opening 90 PDFs on a Sunday night

Every resume read and scored for you

Forgetting to reply to the good one

Acknowledgements and rejections sent automatically

Checking the registry, TB and CPR by hand

Missing registry check, expired TB or CPR, no car flagged

“Who was the one with hospice experience?”

Ask in plain English, get the person

An ATS you pay for and use 10% of

One flat price, set up in an afternoon

What changes

Same job ad. Different Tuesday night.

“112 Indeed emails with PDFs. I open each one, read half, forget who was who.”

Now: every resume is read against the ad and scored. Strengths, gaps and red flags in a sentence each.

“The good one applied three weeks ago. I never got back to her. She’s with another agency now.”

Now: First Shift sends the acknowledgement, the “not this time” and the interview time. Nobody sits unanswered, so fewer no-shows.

“I need someone with dementia experience who’ll do weekends. I know she’s in there somewhere.”

Now: type it in plain English. Search finds every applicant who fits, across every job you’ve posted.

Fit scoring

Every application read against your ad, not a generic one.

First Shift reads the resume and cover letter, checks them against the role you posted, and gives you a score you can defend to your scheduler. It says what’s strong, what’s missing, and what you should verify before you call.

  • Score 0–100 with the reasons written out
  • Red flags for missing registry checks, expired TB or CPR, no car
  • Side-by-side comparison of two or three finalists
  • “Not stated” when it isn’t stated. No guessing about people.
Priya N. · Caregiver / HHA — weekendsFit 91
State registry check✓
Dementia care4 yrs
Weekend availability✓
Own car & insurance✓
TB test—

Verify before calling: TB test not stated. Everything else on the ad is covered.

Ask First Shift

Ask your pipeline a question from Claude or ChatGPT.

Connect First Shift to the assistant you already use. It can read your roles and applicants and answer in plain English. It can’t change anything, so nothing gets moved by accident.

  • “Who are the five best for the weekend caregiver role, and why?”
  • “Anyone who applied last month with hospice experience?”
  • “What did we tell the people we didn’t take?”
claude.ai · connected to First Shiftread-only
Who are the five best for the weekend caregiver role, and why?
Five of 112 score above 75:
  1. Priya N. (91)— registry clear, CNA, 4 yrs dementia care, weekends
  2. Mei L. (88)— hospice experience, references in, interview Thursday
  3. Tom A. (86)— CPR and TB current; no dementia care yet
Two more below. Want Priya and Mei side by side?

Free tools

Take these with you. No sign-up wall.

Working files, not PDFs about hiring. Built for the roles home care agencies actually post.

Pricing

One price. Everyone in the business on it.

No per-user fees. The owner, the scheduler and whoever screens with them all see the same list and the same notes. Cancel from the billing page, not by emailing anyone.

$49 / month
  • Unlimited users
  • 1 active job
  • 300 AI-screened applications a month
  • Careers page
  • Automated candidate emails
Start a 7-day trialCard required. Nothing charged until day 8.

Pricing is provisional while the plans are finalized. See all plans →

Questions

The ones people ask before they start.

Does the AI decide who I hire?
No. It reads and scores. It tells you what's strong, what's missing and what to check. You still call people and you still decide.
Will it post to Indeed or ZipRecruiter for me?
Not yet. You get a careers page and an application form you can link from anywhere. Applications land in First Shift whichever board they came from.
Can my scheduler and my office manager both use it?
Yes. One flat price, unlimited users, with roles so the right people see the right notes and nothing else.
What does Ask First Shift actually have access to?
Your jobs, applicants and First Shift's scores, read-only. It can't move, edit or email anyone.

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