Category: Job Search & Hiring
Resumes, interviews, first jobs, red flags in postings, and how CSTs actually get hired.
Recruiters will sell you a city. Techs will sell you a Facebook rumor. Here is how to read surgical tech hiring in 2026 and pick a market that still works after the sign-on is gone.
The recruiter says, “The rate for this CST role is $31.50, and we have a $10,000 sign-on if you start...
A recruiter texts you a number that is three dollars an hour higher than your current rate, plus a $15,000...
You apply to 40 surgical tech jobs in six weeks. Half never answer. Ten send the same Workday rejection on...
You finished a 12-hour day of cases. You can set up a trauma laparotomy in your sleep, you have run...
You have the certificate, the CST date on the calendar, and a case log from school that felt huge while...
You show up at 6:45 on a Monday thinking you will shadow for two weeks. The charge nurse looks at...
They ask how you would handle a count discrepancy. You recite the textbook chain of command and “the patient comes...
You can first-scrub a total knee and keep your cool when the count is off. Your resume says “responsible for...