AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS), the largest US healthcare staffing firm, named Darren Findley as VP of recruitment process outsourcing.

Findley has 32 years of recruitment experience and most recently was managing director of RPO at Kenexa, where he managed RPO programs for a clients including UnitedHealth Group, Express Scripts, Allstate Insurance and University of Phoenix.

“Darren Findley is a talented innovator who will engage the healthcare industry with advanced management practices like RPO,” said Dan White, president of workforce solutions at AMN Healthcare. “Under Darren’s leadership, RPO at AMN Healthcare will continue its rapid growth, and improve our client outcomes including reduced cost per hire, decreased vacancy rates and time-to-fill, and improved hiring manager satisfaction.”

“With the rising demand and constrained supply of candidates, there’s intense competition for talent in the healthcare sector,” Findley said. “RPO provides expert recruiters who are entirely focused on only one job: helping clients quickly find, engage and hire the quality healthcare professionals they need. RPO puts the right person in the right job at the right time.”

RPO has been used extensively in other industries for years, but is just now “crossing the chasm” into healthcare, he said.