Hey Sunny California! New grad in Oregon looking for work

Whole bay area sux for new grads right now and new folks graduating in november/december and january. I say stay where you are and get a year's experience before coming here.... unless you know someone in a hospital or have a ton of experience.

No it's bad in most of California right now. The bay area is horrible to find work and a lot of the new nurses there went to Sacramento. Plus a lot of hospitals have had hiring freezes, Kaiser just layed off like 2000 workers in the last year, one of the hospitals in Redding also laid off some nurses. The economy is bad all over, just because people get sick does not mean they hire, they just put a heavier load on the nurses they have, or take less patients (lotta people dont have insurance right now because they aren't working).

I'm in the greater Sac metro region and I can tell you first hand: The openings are few and the competition is FIERCE.

Sutter Sac has a sort-of hiring freeze and isn't hiring new grads. I just applied for a few positions there and the computer always responds, "no new grads." I know of one unit a Sutter that hired 2 new grads in June... and received over 100 apps for those two openings.

Kaiser is not hiring any new grads.

UC Davis is not hiring any new grads. They did hire a few over the summer but also required a specific 5th semester preceptorship in a like unit... presumably one of theirs.

CHW is not hiring any new grads. They're pretty much like UCD.

Nope, Sacto's a locked-up market right now.

Keep in mind, you've got Merritt, Sac State, ARC, Solano College, and a few us who commuted out of the area for school.

If your spouse is in seminary then perhaps he's got a connection with someone who can really help because getting hired around here takes a miracle.

You and about a thousand other people.

Mercy is loaded with volunteers who are new-grad RNs just hoping to get an "in" there. I'd guess that most of the other hospitals are, too. (I know that I've just submitted volunteer apps to three different hospitals in the area.)