Myth: all travel healthcare recruiters are as fabulous as yours at Fusion Medical Staffing.
When you have a travel nursing or allied health recruiter that fills your cup, it can be hard to see why some travel healthcare professionals may prefer working alone without a recruiter. From a relationship-based recruiting strategy to recruiterless recruiting, there are many different talent acquisition techniques across the healthcare industry. Let’s learn more about recruiterless recruiting and why that approach may not make sense for you.
- What is recruiterless recruiting?
- Why recruiters matter
- Reasons our recruiters are loved
- ✨BONUS ✨ Frequently asked questions
Why Recruiters Are Still Essential Amid Recruiterless Recruiting Models
What is recruiterless recruiting?
While recruiterless recruiting might sound like a modern solution, like anything, it has its downsides — especially for travel nurses and allied health professionals.
Recruiters bring invaluable industry insights and uncover hidden gem jobs that aren’t always advertised. Not only that, but your recruiter advocates for you, negotiates terms, and ensures you get the best possible deal with each assignment.
Without a dedicated recruiter, you miss out on personalized support, as well as insider knowledge about the best opportunities that match your skills and preferences, making the job search process far more stressful.
Fact: recruiterless systems can’t replace the personalized advice and tailored assistance that recruiters provide.
Why recruiters matter
So, what’s missing from a recruiterless model? Obviously…a recruiter. And this is an essential missed opportunity, because while recruiterless companies brag about efficiency and cost-effective hiring, they’re still missing important parts of the allied and travel nurse experience: a sense of trust and empowerment to make informed decisions about your career path.
What recruiters have established with their travelers over the years can’t be replaced by big tech automations. Technology and generative AI doesn’t have the human capacity to solve the very real, very specific issues that you deal with on a day-to-day basis. These are some reasons why recruiters with a relationship-based recruiting strategy matter to travel nurses and allied travelers.
Personalized job matching
One of the best parts of partnering with a recruiter as a healthcare traveler is their ability to find allied and travel nursing jobs that align with your goals and vibes.
The secret is they take the time to understand your unique skills, preferences, and career ambitions, and then use that to turn your job search into job success. Whether you’re looking for a specific location, certain pay rate, or facility, recruiters sift through the noise and present you with options that fit your criteria, leaving you to focus on what you do best: provide exceptional patient care.
Insider industry knowledge
Want to know which facilities have the best work environments? Curious about which job locations offer the best perks? Interested in knowing all the places to avoid?
Your recruiter has the scoop.
With insight into all things related to the travel healthcare industry, your recruiter can help you make informed decisions about where to take your talents next.
Negotiation support
Having industry knowledge comes with knowing the ins and outs of negotiating travel contracts. From top pay to the best benefits to the most flexible schedules, your recruiter will go to bat for you to try to check all your boxes, saving you the time and energy of having to play hardball.
Ongoing support and career guidance
Recruiters are a lot of things, including your own, personal cheerleader. No matter where your allied or travel nursing jobs take you, your recruiter is there for every step in every state to provide ongoing support and guidance.
Whether you’re looking for advice on your next assignment, help resolving an issue on the job, or just someone to chat with about your day, your recruiter is always there to help make your journey smoother, less stressful, and more rewarding.
Recruiters are the pinnacle of transparency and the ultimate go-to resource when it comes to your next career move. At the end of the day, it’s about an H-to-H solution — human-to-human.
Reasons our recruiters are loved
Not to brag, but we do have some of the best recruiters in the healthcare industry, and that’s no coincidence. We’re very picky about who we bring into the fold because we know you deserve only the best.
We asked a handful of travel nurses and allied travelers what they loved about their Fusion Medical Staffing recruiter, and these are the top answers: advanced industry knowledge, strong communication skills, prudent listening skills, unwavering trustworthiness, and relentless reliability.
Related: What Healthcare Travelers Love About Fusion Medical Staffing Recruiters
“I love that my recruiter shows that she cares,” said Fusion Medical Staffing Traveler Kathy. “If there’s an issue, she’s on top of it and gets it taken care of immediately. Communication with all Fusion staff is quick and informative. I feel they always have my back and are very responsive.”
You need a recruiter who’s always there to support you and provide guidance throughout your journey. In a field that can feel uncertain at times, having a trustworthy recruiter by your side can positively transform your travel experience. Get matched with a recruiter and feel the Fusion difference for yourself.
Frequently asked questions
Should I work with as many recruiters as I can?
The choice to work with as many recruiters as you can is totally yours! When you travel with us, you’ll get paired with a recruiter that matches your personality and interests, and you’ll stick together throughout the entirety of your career here.
“As a former healthcare traveler, I can say that working with one recruiter makes things much smoother for the traveler,” said Shafer Fox, R.T.(R)(CT), radiology recruiter, and former Fusion Medical Staffing traveler. “Learning the ways of different recruiters can be hard, time consuming, and creates room for error. The more consistent you can be with one recruiter, the better success you’ll see come your way.”
Related: Working with Multiple Recruiters Doesn’t Benefit You. Here’s Why.
“Fusion Medical Staffing recruiters are a special breed of recruiters,” said Fox. “You won’t find more caring individuals to have on your side at any other agency.”
How does the recruiter matching process work at Fusion?
Having a strong recruiter relationship can make or break your travel nursing or allied travel experience. We know that, and that’s why we’ve recently upgraded our recruiter matching process at Fusion Medical Staffing.
In the past, we’ve operated on a first-come first-served-type of basis when matching you with a recruiter. That’s all changed, and now we’re focusing on your personality type, as well as the recruiter’s, to better match you with someone whose personality goes well with your own. This process has already yielded positive results in elevating the overall traveler experience through personalized support, customized communication, and increased trust.
What are things I should look for in a recruiter?
There are many things to consider when working with a recruiter. Luckily, our recruiters only have green flags, and they are:
🟩Open and timely communication
🟩Appreciative of the travelers they support
🟩Strong industry knowledge
🟩Advocates for and mentors you
🟩Strong, creative problem-solver
🟩Empathetic and thoughtful
When it comes to recruiterless recruiting for travel nursing and allied jobs, human interaction and understanding is a missing puzzle piece. At the end of the day, recruiters are still essential to the process and add a lot of value as innovative thinkers, trustworthy advocates, and best of all, human beings.
