The Host Recruiter is responsible for managing the full recruitment lifecycle of Hosts for travel healthcare assignments across the United States. This is a high-impact, sales-driven recruitment role focused on building a strong candidate pipeline, developing relationships, generating submissions, and converting qualified candidates into successful placements and starts.
The role combines recruitment, candidate relationship management, and sales. The Host Recruiter serves as a career advisor to candidates while actively driving recruitment activity, presenting opportunities, pre-closing candidates, and closing offers. Success in this role is measured through candidate activity, submissions, placements, starts, redeployment, and referrals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively source, engage, and qualify Host candidates for travel healthcare assignments.
- Build and maintain a consistent pipeline of qualified and ready-to-place candidates.
- Conduct outreach through calls, texts, email, job boards, referrals, social media, and other sourcing channels.
- Build strong relationships with candidates and understand their career goals, assignment preferences, compensation expectations, availability, and motivators.
- Maintain regular contact with candidates to keep them engaged and active throughout the recruitment process.
2. Candidate Screening & Qualification
- Conduct interviews to assess candidates against job and assignment requirements.
- Evaluate candidate qualifications, experience, availability, location preferences, compensation expectations, and readiness for travel assignments.
- Educate candidates on market conditions, pay expectations, assignment requirements, locations, and available opportunities.
- Identify potential barriers to placement and proactively address or escalator concerns.
- Ensure candidate profiles and documentation are complete, accurate, and market-ready.
- Match qualified candidates with appropriate open travel assignments.
- Present job opportunities clearly, including compensation, location, schedule, assignment expectations, and other relevant details.
- Generate consistent candidate submissions based on available opportunities.
- Pre-close candidates by confirming their commitment to key assignment details before submission.
- Manage candidate activity and follow-ups to maximize submission and placement opportunities.
- Negotiate and close candidates on offers while addressing questions and concerns.
- Guide candidates through offer acceptance and all required pre-start activities.
- Drive candidates from initial engagement through submission, offer acceptance, and successful start.
4. Candidate Experience & Relationship Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for candidates throughout the recruitment and placement process.
- Keep candidates informed, engaged, and updated from initial contact through assignment start.
- Anticipate and resolve potential obstacles that may affect placement or start dates.
- Provide a positive and professional candidate experience while maintaining a strong sales and results orientation.
- Build long-term relationships that support redeployment, repeat placements, and candidate referrals.
5. Collaboration & Recruitment Operations
- Partner closely with Account Managers, Credentialing, Operations, and other internal teams to align candidate profiles with available assignments.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand current and upcoming staffing needs.
- Ensure candidate profiles are competitive, complete, and positioned effectively for submission.
- Maintain accurate and timely records of candidate activity, pipeline status, submissions, offers, placements, and starts.
- Monitor individual recruitment performance against established activity, submission, placement, and start goals.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures, including applicable local, state, and federal fair employment practices.
What Success Looks Like
Top performers in this role consistently:
- Build and maintain a strong, active pipeline of qualified Host candidates.
- Generate consistent weekly candidate submissions, placements, and starts.
- Maintain high levels of recruitment activity through calls, texts, outreach, and candidate follow-ups.
- Effectively interview, qualify, pre-close, and close candidates on travel assignments.
- Convert qualified candidates into successful placements and starts.
- Maintain strong candidate relationships that result in redeployment and referrals.
- Demonstrate urgency, accountability, resilience, and a strong sales mindset in achieving recruitment goals.
This position offers a competitive base salary plus a commission/bonus structure tied to recruitment performance, including submissions, placements, and starts. High performers have significant earning potential and opportunities for career advancement within the recruitment organization.
Job Qualifications
- College-level education or degree.
- US recruitment experience within the last 2 years.
- Experience interviewing and qualifying candidates against job requirements.
- Proven experience in recruitment, sales, staffing, or another high-activity, quota-driven environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with candidates, employees, clients, and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to organize tasks, manage time effectively, multitask, and work with a strong sense of urgency.
- Ability to function effectively as a cohesive team member through open communication and proactive support of team performance goals.
- Ability to use a touch-tone telephone, navigate a PC screen, type at least 35 words per minute, and demonstrate proficiency in basic Windows operations and standard office equipment such as fax machines, printers, and copiers.
- Ability to speak and write professionally and follow oral and written instructions.
- Must be willing to work in rotating shifts or US time zone.
- Must be willing to work in the office at Bridgetowne, QC.
Preferred Qualifications
- US healthcare recruitment experience.
- Travel clinician recruitment experience — strongly preferred.
- Full-cycle recruitment experience, from sourcing and screening through offer acceptance and start.
- Experience recruiting Hosts or other healthcare professionals.
- Experience working in a staffing agency or healthcare staffing environment.
- Demonstrated success meeting or exceeding recruitment, sales, placement, or activity-based performance targets.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Medical Solutions Business Services Philippines provides Equal Employment Opportunity in compliance with all applicable government laws, ensuring equal opportunity in all aspects of employment.