One fee. One guarantee. No surprises.
20% placement fee. 3-month guarantee. Full terms below.
20% of the candidate's first-year base salary
The real cost is not the fee. It is the wrong hire.
Veterinary team turnover averages 23% annually (AAHA 2024). For an emergency practice, every failed hire carries direct costs: recruiting again, onboarding again, lost revenue during the gap, and the clinical burden on the team that stays. Conservative industry estimates put the cost of replacing a single veterinarian at 0.5x to 1.5x their annual salary.
A 20% placement fee on a veterinarian earning $250K is $50K. That fee covers a 17-dimension match built on the Cova Protocol, a structured practice profile, dealbreaker screening on both sides, offer support grounded in market data, and 90 days of post-placement monitoring.
A guarantee backed by methodology, not hope.
If a placed veterinarian leaves the practice or is terminated within 90 days of their start date, Cova will either identify a replacement candidate at no additional fee or issue a credit toward a future placement. The guarantee applies to all placements made through Cova regardless of role type or compensation level.
Most placement guarantees are financial hedges. Ours is a structural outcome. Every match clears dealbreaker gates and dimensional scoring across both sides before either party invests time. The guarantee reflects a process designed to get it right, not a policy for when it goes wrong.
After placement, we do not disappear. Structured check-ins at 7, 30, and 90 days track how the match is performing against the dimensions that defined it. If something shifts, we identify it early and work with both sides to address it before it becomes a retention problem.