Unspoken Truth

 As a Recruiter part of my responsibility is to help educate clients and candidates during the hiring process.  I am an advocate and a mediator for both.   It is my responsibility to set expectations and bring both the Candidate and Client to an agreeable commitment.  My company’s main focus is to secure an assignment in the allied health travel industry.  Please note with a very large client base we frequently assist in permanent hires.  Recently I had an incident that I feel is worth discussion….One of our Physical Therapist interviewed for a travel assignment and received an offer for a 13 week assignment.    After verbal committment, the next step is to send contracts to legalize the commitment. While waiting for signed paperwork, the traveler called to say he had additional questions for the client and requested the client's contact info.  One hour later, the traveler called to tell me he was no longer interested in the travel assignment and he was planning on accepting a permanent offer.   When I called the client to give them the bad news I learned that they actually made him a permanent offer and was planning on him accepting.   Because of our contract with the client, I was able to draft an invoice for this perm introduction. However, I was surprised the client and the traveler felt they didn’t need me as their advocate in this process.
Three days went by when I received another call from the traveler: he had decided to not accept the perm position because he felt the financial package was not worth his skill set.