How to hire acupuncturists
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Job description template
Copy it, fill in the brackets, and remove anything that does not fit your job. Keep only must-haves you would really turn someone away for.
[Job title] at [Company name] [City, State] · [Full-time / Part-time] · [Pay range] About the role [Two or three sentences about your team, the work and why it matters.] What you will do • Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes. • Collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients. • Develop individual treatment plans and strategies. • Evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health. • Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding. • Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment. • Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures. • Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements. What you bring • [Required license, certification or years of experience, if any] • [Education, only if you truly need it. Typical to start in this job: Master's degree] • Strong active listening, critical thinking, speaking, monitoring, reading comprehension and active learning skills • Working knowledge of customer and personal service, medicine and dentistry, psychology and biology • [Anything else you would really turn someone away for] Pay and benefits [Pay range]. For reference, the U.S. median for this job is $36.56 an hour ($76,040 a year). [Benefits, schedule and anything else candidates should know.] How to apply [Apply on JAI Bot. Every applicant hears back.]
Interview questions for acupuncturists
Ask every candidate the same questions, in the same order, and write down what they say. Questions about past work show what someone has actually done.
- Tell me about a time you had to adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to develop individual treatment plans and strategies. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
- Tell me about a time you had to understand a request or problem that was explained poorly. How did you make sure you got it right?
- Describe a decision at work where the obvious answer was wrong. How did you work out the better choice?
- Explain something technical from your last job as you would to a new coworker.
- Why this job, and why now? What would make you stay here for the long term?
Good answers name a real situation, what the person did themselves and what happened. Avoid questions about age, family plans, religion, health, national origin or anything else unrelated to the job.
What acupuncturists do
- Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes.
- Collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients.
- Develop individual treatment plans and strategies.
- Evaluate treatment outcomes and recommend new or altered treatments as necessary to further promote, restore, or maintain health.
- Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding.
- Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment.
- Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures.
- Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements.
Skills that matter most
Education, experience and outlook for acupuncturists
- Typical education to start: Master's degree (BLS)
- Related work experience most have: 1 to 2 years (O*NET)
- Job outlook: +8.6% over ten years, much faster than average · about 800 openings a year (BLS)
What to pay acupuncturists
Pay depends a lot on where the job is. Highest and lowest median yearly pay by state:
| State | Median yearly pay |
|---|---|
| New York | $86,120 |
| California | $75,530 |
| Florida | $69,990 |
See acupuncturists pay in every state
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Post a job freePay by areaJob duties and skills: O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JAI Bot has modified this information; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Pay: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, May 2025. Interview questions and the job description template: JAI Bot, based on the duties and skills above.