Pharaoh Sargent, PA-C, founder of PA Staffing Solutions
Pharaoh Sargent
PA-C · Founder
About the Founder

Twenty years
on the other side
of the hire.

“The recruiters filling your PA roles have never done the job. I have — for over 20 years.”

Pharaoh Sargent, PA-C practiced across the emergency department, operating room, ambulatory care, and inpatient settings in the New York City metro area for more than two decades before founding PA Staffing Solutions.

He founded the firm on a simple premise: the person evaluating a clinician for a role should have held that role themselves.

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Twenty Years in Practice

Four settings.
One through-line.

Every setting taught a different lesson about what makes an advanced practice provider succeed — or quietly fail — in a role.

Emergency Department

Undifferentiated patients, compressed decision windows, and no option to defer. The ED is where clinical judgment is either present or it isn't.

Operating Room

First-assist work runs on anticipation, not instruction. A surgeon three hours into a case needs a PA who already knows what comes next.

Ambulatory Care

Clinic changes the unit of work from the episode to the relationship. Volume matters, but so does whether a patient comes back.

Inpatient Management

Managing an inpatient service means owning a list, a team, and the handoffs between them. It is the closest clinical work gets to running an operation.

Why This Firm Exists

I have sat on
both sides of this table.

Clinical hiring goes wrong in predictable ways, and the people running it usually cannot see it, because they have never done the job they are hiring for.

As the Candidate

Represented by people who had never done the work

Being recruited as a PA means fielding roles from people who cannot answer a clinical question about the job they are selling. The mismatch is not malice — it is that they have no way to tell a good fit from a bad one.

As the Hiring Clinician

Screening résumés that had already been screened wrong

On the hiring side the same gap shows up as wasted weeks. Résumés arrive pre-screened by someone who screened for the wrong things, and the clinical filtering still lands on the people who already have a full schedule.

Credentials & Coverage

Licensed clinician.
Tri-State specialist.

  • PA-C — Certified Physician Assistant, NCCPA
  • 20+ years in clinical practice across the NYC metro area
  • Four practice settings — emergency, operative, ambulatory, and inpatient
  • Founder & Principal Recruiter — PA Staffing Solutions
Emergency Medicine Operating Room Ambulatory Care Inpatient Management NYC Metro · 20+ Years
New York City Manhattan, the outer boroughs, and Westchester
New Jersey Northern and central NJ, including Secaucus and the Hudson County corridor
Connecticut Fairfield County through the Danbury region
Specialties Orthopedics, spine, aesthetics & cosmetic derm, and ambulatory surgery centers
Let's Talk

Talk to the clinician,
not the call centre.

Twenty minutes, no rate card pitch. Whether you are hiring or looking, you will be speaking with someone who has done the job.

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