Recruiting Consultant

Job Description
Welcome to AMN Healthcare — Where Talent Meets Purpose
Ever wondered what it takes to build one of the largest and most respected healthcare staffing and total talent solutions companies? It takes trailblazers, innovators, and exceptional people like you.
At AMN Healthcare, we don’t just offer jobs — we build careers that make a difference.

Why AMN Healthcare? Because Excellence Is Our Standard:

- Named to Becker’s Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare — three years running.

- Consistently ranked among SIA’s Largest Staffing Firms in America .

- Honored with Modern Healthcare’s Innovators Award for driving change through innovation.

- Proud holder of The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Staffing Companies since 2006.

Job Summary
The Recruiting Consultant sources, engages, qualifies, and places nursing professionals in Travel Nursing contract assignments. The Recruiting Consultant builds and maintains strong relationships with travel nurses by understanding their career goals, professional experience, preferred locations, availability, and compensation expectations. Using a consultative and sales-driven approach, this position educates nurses on the travel nursing industry, available assignments, market conditions, and the benefits of traveling with AMN Healthcare. Success in this role requires consistent outbound candidate engagement, achievement of defined activity and performance metrics, and the ability to build trusted relationships that connect qualified nurses with client needs.

Job Responsibilities

- Meets daily and weekly activity, outbound call, submission, placement, and productivity metrics to consistently grow the Travel Nursing clinician network, generate new candidate opportunities, and retain nurses currently working on travel assignments.

- Develops and executes proactive prospecting and candidate engagement strategies using AMN's proprietary applicant tracking system, phone, email, and other approved communication channels to identify and engage prospective travel nurses.

- Maintains accurate and timely candidate information within AMN's proprietary applicant tracking system, including contact information, qualifications, licensure, availability, quality services documentation, assignment preferences, and candidate selling points.

- Builds trusted relationships with nurses using a consultative sales approach to understand career goals, professional experience, assignment preferences, motivations, and unspoken needs while maintaining engagement throughout the recruitment process.

- Qualifies nurses for Travel Nursing assignments based on licensure, clinical experience, skills, availability, location preferences, compensation expectations, and overall fit to identify appropriate opportunities and increase placement success.

- Educates nurses on current Travel Nursing opportunities, market conditions, compensation, assignment requirements, and realistic timelines to help candidates make informed career decisions and identify assignments aligned with their professional and personal goals.

- Discusses and negotiates compensation and assignment details to develop competitive packages that align candidate expectations with available Travel Nursing opportunities.

- Partners with Account Management and internal teams to present qualified Travel Nursing candidates, support the interview and placement process, and efficiently fill client openings.

- Maintains consistent follow-up with prospective, active, and previous travelers to cultivate a strong candidate pipeline, generate referrals, improve retention, and create future placement opportunities.

Key Skills

- Sales and Relationship Building

- Outbound Prospecting and Candidate Engagement

- Goal- and KPI-Oriented

- Consultative Communication

- Customer-Oriented

- Negotiation and Influencing Skills

- Effective Written and Verbal Communication

- Organization and Attention to Detail

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, metrics-driven environment

Qualifications Education & Years of Experience

- Associate's degree plus 2-5 years of work experience OR High School Diploma/GED plus 4-7 years of work experience

Additional Experience

- Previous experience in sales, recruiting, customer engagement, or other results-driven roles with demonstrated success working toward defined performance goals

- Prior experience in phone sales, retail sales, or restaurant sales with demonstrated accountability to KPIs, sales goals, productivity expectations, and/or outbound call metrics

- Experience working in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment where success is measured through activity, productivity, sales, or customer engagement metrics

- Healthcare staffing or Travel Nursing recruiting experience is preferred but not required

- Demonstrate the ability to effectively use technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, support decision-making, and enhance business outcomes while adhering to company policies and responsible AI practices

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

- Work is performed in an office/home office environment.

- Team Members must have the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.

AMN Healthcare will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the job.

Our Core Values
● Respect ● Passion ● Continuous Improvement ● Trust ● Customer Focus ● Innovation

At AMN we embrace the ways we are similar and different; respecting all voices and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our collective success. We acknowledge our shared responsibility to foster a welcoming environment where everyone feels recognized and valued. We cast a wide net to recruit and retain competitive talent and build healthcare workforces supportive of the communities we serve. We believe in the power of compassion and collaboration to build healthy communities where access to quality care is available to all. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

At AMN we recognize that in-person connections have value and promote collaboration. You will be expected to come into an AMN Healthcare office at a frequency dependent on the work arrangement for your role.

Pay Rate
$20.25 - $25.25 Hourly Final pay rate is dependent on experience, training, education, and location.
This position may include additional compensation such as bonus or commission.  Please ask your recruiter for more information.