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…