Travel Nurse Recruiter

Primary responsibility is to recruit, screen, negotiate with, and hire healthcare professionals. Execute independent recruiting strategies to increase revenue and profitability, build relationships with field staff, generate referrals, and prospect new candidates. Meet company and client expectations by producing quality candidates for open job orders.

Responsibilities

• Recruit viable nurses for travel assignments from all sources through prospecting, generating referrals, and working leads.
• Sell assignments to prospective travelers by probing for unspoken needs and using a consultative sales approach.
• Implement independent recruiting strategies to recruit, screen (interview), and evaluate healthcare professionals based on clients’ specific needs.
• Cultivate a network of potential healthcare professionals and meet company-based goals by maintaining and increasing the candidate pool.
• Negotiate compensation packages with healthcare professionals while maintaining acceptable margins.
• Develop strategies to pursue new avenues for recruiting candidates; utilize tools such as email campaigns and social media to establish relationships and expand the candidate pool.
• Conduct regular competitive market analyses.
• Meet or exceed key performance expectations: outbound calls, candidate submittals, and weeks booked.
• Cultivate relationships and provide excellent customer service to build a loyal and active base of working healthcare professionals.
• Maintain positive relationships with healthcare travelers to enhance patient care through supplemental staffing.
• Attend trade shows, conventions, job and career fairs, workshops, and other company/client-sponsored events as necessary.
• Complete weekly recruitment reports and special recruiting projects as needed.
• Meet weekly productivity metrics and goals.
• Maintain and update candidate database files and required documents.
• Ensure traveler satisfaction on each assignment through planning and follow-up.
• Build and sustain positive business relationships with clients and co-workers.
• Maintain open communication with active nurse staff, including appropriate follow-up to uncover needs, situations, and problems.
• Retain flexible schedules to service nurse staff requests and/or handle issues.
• Perform other duties as assigned, with or without accommodation.

Requirements

• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing, qualifying, networking, and relationship management, preferably in staffing.
• Strong sense of urgency.
• Effective phone presentation, excellent problem-solving abilities, negotiation, and sales skills.
• Ability to collaborate with all aspects of the selling cycle to achieve goals.
• High school diploma or equivalent; Bachelor’s degree preferred or any equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.

Benefits

• Company equipment (laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, headset) provided for use during employment.