Dental recruitment for urban and rural clinics, coast to coast to coast: hygienists, assistants, administrators, office managers and associate dentists.
The wrong hire costs more than the fee. We take the time to get it right.
Mint Ops recruits hygienists, assistants, administrators, office managers, denturists and associate dentists for dental clinics across Canada, for a flat fee from $2,000: 30% as a non-refundable deposit, 70% on hire.
In a dental clinic the stakes of a hire are immediate, the team is small, and the wrong person in the wrong seat disrupts patients, colleagues, and the rhythm of a practice that took years to build.
A bad hire costs money and time: the hours spent onboarding someone who didn’t work out, the disruption to the team while a replacement is found, and the patients who noticed. By the time you add it up, the recruitment fee you were trying to avoid is rarely the expensive part.
Good candidates exist. The hard part is the match.
The dental labour market is competitive. Good candidates have options, and they evaluate your clinic the same way you’re evaluating them. Whatever their budget or location, the practices that hire well consistently are clear about who they are, what they’re looking for, and why the right person would want to be there.
The ad described the job. It didn’t describe the clinic.
The conventional approach to dental hiring goes like this: a position opens up, a job ad goes live describing the role in functional terms, resumes come in, a few interviews happen, someone gets hired. Sometimes it works. More often, it produces a hire that looked fine on paper, interviewed reasonably well, and turned out to be wrong for the clinic in ways that only became apparent after a few months on the floor.
A fast search that skips the right questions produces the same result. We know what the right questions are because Mint Ops has been inside dental clinics since 1978, and our recruiters came out of them. We ask them before we write a single word of the job ad.
We learn your clinic before we look for candidates.
A search that starts with the job ad starts too late, because the ad describes a role without understanding the practice it sits inside. Our process starts earlier, with your clinic.
We ask for a deposit. Here’s why that’s good for you.
Before we begin any recruitment engagement, we ask for 30% of the fee as a non-refundable deposit when the search starts. The other 70% is due on a successful hire. The deposit is part of the fee. Not every agency works this way. The deposit is in your interest as well as ours.
The deposit funds the work we do before a single candidate is contacted (the discovery, the job description, the sourcing strategy), which is where the outcome is determined.
Many recruitment agencies work on a contingency model: they don’t charge until placement. The problem with that model is that it incentivizes speed over quality, and it creates a dynamic where the agency’s work begins and ends with getting a body hired. There’s no structural reason for them to invest heavily in understanding your clinic.
The clinics that work well with us understand what they’re buying: a process built to find the right person.
The people who run your search.
Dr. Henry Lam
Recruitment Specialist
A practising dentist who graduated from UBC in 2005. He brings clinical perspective to every search: he understands the role you're hiring for from the inside and knows what qualities predict success in a clinical dental environment.
Tatiana Cappis
Recruitment Specialist
Over ten years of experience placing candidates in dental practices across Canada. She understands the dental labour market, the candidate side of the conversation, and what makes a candidate move, or stay.
Also contributing to recruitment engagements
Dani Foster
Director of Practice Strategy
Fourteen years of dental experience, including time as both an RDA and an Office Manager. Contributes directly to the clinic discovery process for administrative and clinical support roles.
Savannah Koran
Chief of Staff
Over twenty years of dental experience and HR leadership. Joins searches where team dynamics and leadership fit decide the hire.
What we recruit for, and what it costs.
We recruit for the full range of dental practice roles, from administrative to clinical to leadership.
Fees are flat consulting fees rather than a percentage of salary. You pay 30% of the fee as a non-refundable deposit when the search starts, and 70% on a successful hire. The deposit is part of the fee. Every engagement begins with a consultation. The fees above are starting points: some placements are more straightforward, and some require a more customized approach. We discuss scope before any agreement is made.
Coast to coast. Urban and rural.
We place candidates in dental practices across Canada, in major urban centres and in rural and remote communities where the hiring challenge is often more acute and the margin for error is smaller.
Rural dental placements require a different kind of search. The candidate pool is narrower, the lifestyle considerations are real, and a candidate who does well in a busy urban multi-chair practice may not be the right fit for a two-chair clinic in a rural town.
We’ve made placements in both, and we run the searches differently. We know the questions to ask of candidates who are considering a rural move, and we know what makes those placements work long-term.
Mint Ops has regional relationships across every province, built through our software, remote administration, and transition consulting work. When we’re looking for candidates in a specific market, we’re not starting cold.
In their own words.
It was an absolute pleasure to work with Dani Foster. Dani was responsible for recruiting a RDH to our dental practice in Osoyoos. She was competent, patient, responsive and understanding every step of the way. I would recommend Dani Foster and MintOps to any dental office looking for recruitment services.
Puneet Brar
Google review
Dani's dedication in helping us find the perfect RDA was exceptional. She introduced us to multiple candidates.
Dr. Naghmeh Farsi
Wolf Willow Orchid Dental
I used [Mint Ops Recruitment] to find a hygienist for my rural practice when I was unable to find one myself.
Dr. Derek Nordstrom
Timber Dental
[She] looks amazing. I liked her yesterday and I asked her to work with us. She came today for 1 hour and she is very good.
Dr. Katy Anagnostou
Burnaby Heights Dental Centre
My clients have trusted [Mint Ops Recruitment] multiple times, and they always deliver. I've seen them successfully place dentists everywhere.
Sadie McInnes
Senior Account Manager · SmileShop Marketing
Looking for your next role?
We post active openings on behalf of the clinics we work with. Every listing reflects a real engagement. We don’t post speculatively. This section is for candidates. Clinic owners: your engagement starts with a conversation.
Everything you need to know.
It all starts with a conversation.
Every search we’ve run started the same way: a conversation about who you’re looking for, what hasn’t worked before, and what would make this hire different from the last one. Sometimes that conversation surfaces something you hadn’t fully articulated. Sometimes it confirms that you already know what you need and someone has to go find it.
Either way, nothing moves forward until we talk. We scope the engagement, set expectations, and tell you whether we think we can help before anyone commits to anything.