Affiliate Text Link

Hi. How does the affiliate set up a text link in his site?
I did the following as an affiliate, but results is not what I expected. What is the right way to do it?
1. Got the text link from my affiliate control panel in the ‘Creatives’ tab.
Hire workers on Site Name
2. Pasted the link (as shown above) into my site.

The final result for the text link was exactly the same as in 1.
Should’nt it appear as: Hire Workers on Site Name with the text linked to “https://sitename.com/employer?wpam_id=1”

What went wrong?