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Health Carousel is a decent choice for employment if the travel nursing market is in peak condition, but unfortunately it is not. Aside from the positive social interactions and friendships between employees, it is an awful excuse for an employer with self proclaimed “high morals”. The executives preach placing travel nurses in contracts for “the greater good” of the healthcare industry yet they expect the recruiters to sell some of the lowest paying contracts seen from an agency, just to exceed the base pay. I will also mention the company does not comply with “do not call” standards and expects employees to repeatedly call these nurses even after it is requested to be removed from call lists. Directors and executives will schedule countless hours of meetings and retraining through the 8am-5pm work days and expect you to put in extra hours to meet KPIs. Recently the company expressed that there is zero growth expected for the next year and used fear mongering as a tactic to try to motivate staff to make more calls and sell more contracts. After noticing executives and directors start scrambling, the company started seeing 3+ recruiters being let go each month rather than doing a mass layoff. On top of the zero growth expectation and terminations, they were STILL hiring recruiters. The Marketing team spent most of their days analyzing our outreach rather than marketing the company to nurses in order to gain new prospects so the pool of active travel nurses was shrinking rapidly. If you like to spend your days barely scraping by financially, selling low paying jobs to hard working nurses, putting in overtime for no extra pay, harassing people on the phone and getting laughed at/yelled at by nurses, this is the job for you!

This job consists of many moving parts. It is crucial to be able to structure your day in order to see success. As a recruiter, you are responsible for building your own call lists, text blasts, follow-up, submissions, managing your HCPs on assignment, and marketing yourself/HCTN to the HCPs. This job requires you to be self-motivated and goal oriented. It is not an easy career path, but I feel Health Carousel recognizes this factor. Management is always great to offer incentives, activities, and reco meetings to keep up morale. I feel supported by my direct manager. This person makes me feel seen and heard. They let me know they care about my professional success and help me accomplish my career goals. I would highly recommend Health Carousel as a company. However, you have to be ready to put in the work to see success and growth. If you are someone who has drive and grit, recruitment at Health Carousel will be a great opportunity for you. 

Health Carousel also offers great 1st day benefits. I really like our health insurance options. It is great coverage and very affordable. I also really like how we are offered mental health services too. However, I would like to see more support for working parents. I think our paid maternity/paternity leave could be longer. You are offered 6-8 weeks paid maternity leave or 2 weeks paid paternity leave. Health Carousel has a lot of employees who are growing their families and deserve additional time at home with their newest family members. I'd like to see Health Carousel offer on-site daycare services or allow parents to work fully remote. 

If I could rate this company zero stars I would. Everyone considering this company please beware. This company over promises and underdelivers! The training experience was absolutely awful. Full of PowerPoints that do not adequately prepare you for the actual job you will be doing. The trainer clearly has no prior experience but deflects by making new hires feel stupid for asking questions. They promise you that if you come in and work hard, you will be successful. That however is just not possible with dead leads and low rates. You can come in everyday, work very hard, call over 100 potential candidates, consistently make new leads and follow up on them, and still not make it out of the training class. If you are looking for job security, this is not the place to find it. The pay is also an issue. It’s very low especially considering how difficult it is to place a nurse on assignment. So you’re looking at non commission pay until you are able to do so which is defintely not a livable wage. The work culture is decent. They try to make thd office fun with various different activities. The office could definitely be more diverse. Overall, not a good experience and I defintely would not recommend. 

Honestly, this place was toxic and a huge waste of time! I put in the effort that I was asked to and because my boss accidentally gave misinformation to a nurse that nurse backed out of a contract I was held responsible. I appreciate the fact that my boss took ownership of that, but I don't understand why I was let go for something completely out of my control. This place likes to preach about transparency with nurses and communication with management, yet they will stab you in the back as soon as you turn around. The management here is, quite frankly, toxic to say the least! They promise you the moon and don't deliver anything! I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's very hard to succeed here given the industry and job what it is. Management knew I had certain struggles because I was very transparent about that, but they did nothing to help accommodate despite asking what they could do to help. I had high hopes for this job, but it was a huge letdown in many ways. Honestly, don't bother wasting your time when you are underpaid and underappreciated as a nurse recruiter. There are much better opportunities in this industry if you decide to be a recruiter. This simply isn't it!

What is the best part of working at the company?
My coworkers and direct managers were amazing

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The constant pressure. you can never do well enough here. You have your standards raised constantly. When you work hard to reach a goal they just immediately move onto the next thing you need to do. It is like if you work really hard and get an A- and your parent says "Why didn't you get an A".

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Started off great and turned horrible and cold. It was welcoming and exciting when I started. As soon as I started a lot of changes happened in the company and I think everyone there got next-level stress. All of the fun things disappeared and it turned into a place where you would get scolded for talking to your coworkers.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Repetitive. You gather a list and then just cold call. It gets to be draining. Coworkers and the environment made it worth it in the beginning. With the changes that were put in place the job became entirely boring.

The people they have leading the training program dont know what they are doing. So you come out of training not prepared for your actual job if you even make it out of training. They want you to work nights weekends pretty much every day to meet their unachievable goals. They have this scoring chart that can make raises and working from home an option but it’s so not possible for newer people to meet these things so a lot of us are getting discouraged. It takes really really really long time to make commission and the base salary sucks. Most newer recruiters have to work multiple jobs in addition to this one to just make ends meet which doesn’t work when the company wants u to work 24/7. This company is not at all how they paint it so if you want to actually make money look elsewhere. Unless u started in the pandemic no newer people are making it here especially with the trainers they have.

A typical day at work consists of collaborating among my team and across other teams. Management and leaders are open to give quick feedback and guidance. Resources and training are growing. Great investment in technology. I've learned the staffing business and feel positive about the direction it is heading (growth). With the big goals we set here there is always something really exciting we are working toward or achieving. In order to meet these big goals, we all have to work really hard to make them happen. It isn't a regular 8-5 job. Sales and recruiters work extra hours to grow their business and earn more. The hardest part of my job is probably juggling so many responsibilities, but it's also a positive for what I have been able to accomplish. The most enjoyable part of my job is making a difference and enjoying my work environment.

I think this company used to be great, but in the last year, they have made great changes and increased the goals in a declining market. 

There is a training program for the first two months that doesn’t prepare you hardly at all for your actual job. The people they have selected to lead the trainings just don’t seem to know how to train properly. Lots of reading from power points on zoom.

The base pay is low at $36000. It’s only a couple thousand above the poverty line for a single household and below the poverty line for anyone with a family. They say commission and big money come,  but no one I started with this has made more than a couple hundred in commission since we started. 

There needs to be some big changes to keep people motivated enough to stick around.

I absolutely loved my coworkers and that is the only reason I give this place 3 stars. HC knows they have a wonderful group of people and they fully take advantage of it. People only stay because of their coworkers and HC sees that as an opportunity to get rid of other perks. They ask for feedback and do not listen to it because all the feedback surrounds low pay and not enough wfh days. The company culture they pride themselves on is potlucks. They stopped providing catered lunches and the employee engagement events they do 'splurge on' are far away from the office because they are too cheap to pay for a better venue. If you went to college do not waste your time working here because you will not be able to pay back loans. If you are looking to get your foot in the door in an entry level work position without a degree, then I would consider it.

The people at Health Carousel are genuinely nice, and the company made a real effort with employee engagement activities, which were often fun and helped build some camaraderie.
Unfortunately, where it mattered most—transparency and honesty about the company’s direction and job security—they fell very short. Leadership repeatedly reassured employees that our positions were stable, even when team members directly raised concerns with management. In reality, the opposite was true. Without any meaningful warning, the company laid off over 40 employees out of roughly 110. The lack of honesty and suddenness of the cuts left a lot of people blindsided and feeling misled.
If you’re considering working here, know that the culture can feel positive on the surface, but it’s important to stay realistic about long-term stability.

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