Am I being steered in a different direction?

[koalafiedRN, ASN, RN]

Don't know if this will make sense to anyone, but I feel like these travel agencies are trying to steer me towards a specific assignment. For example, I will ask them to submit me to a certain position and then all of a sudden that position is filled but they have another one available that I have absolutely no interest in. Anyone else have the same feeling or am I crazy?

[NedRN]

Sometimes an agency will have a preferred client they will try to steer you towards. But they wouldn't preemptively dump an open assignment you wanted. That is paranoia.

Now if you were not already signed up with that agency, it is very possible (and even likely) that they were just stringing you along until they had sufficient documentation to submit to a real and open assignment. Often advertised jobs are "representational" and even in the improbable event they are open orders, they may well be gone by the time your paperwork is ready.

[koalafiedRN, ASN, RN]

I have never worked with this particular company and I was wanting to go to a town nearby because it's fairly close to my family. I had submitted the paperwork they needed me to fill out. The job was there one moment and the next day it was gone Afterwards they were sending me information on places I had no interest in going to. I just figured they had some positions they needed to fill and thought that I would be the perfect person to fill them.