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Sep 09, 2009 05:35 PM

Help, Can't get a job anywhere in Miami


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Ok, I'm sure you've heard this plenty of times....but I can't obtain a job as a new graduate. I tested and passed my boards since July 29. I am so frustrated and disheartened by this experience. All I do is sit at home and apply and apply. I get real upset when recruiters say, "don't worry, just keep looking" OBVIOUSLY!!! Don't you think I know that by now!!!

I've applied to every hospital in Miami-Dade County: Jackson, Baptist, Mercy, Mount-Sinai, Westchester, UM, etc, and it's neighboring county to the north in Broward: Memorial, Broward health, cleveland clinic, holy cross, etc.

I can't get a job. I went to a hospital's open house for nurses and even got an interview, then was told they are not hiring anyone right now. What's a new RN to do?! Is anyone else having the same difficulty as I am?!

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from tuttle13
Old Sep 09, 2009, 09:45 PM

Default Re: Help, Can't get a job anywhere in Miami
Yes - most of us new grads are experiencing the same thing. I have been looking since January because I was told that I would have a job a few months before I graduated in May, but that was simply not the case for us 2009 grads. If I graduated a year earlier, I would have had at least 3 offers from hospitals competing for me, sign on bonuses, and gifts of leather breifcases to woo me over to work for them. That is how it was for the 2008 class at my college. I just did some prying and have been told by the nursing recruiters in my area that new grad positions will not open up again until earily 2010 - then we will have the 2010 grads trying to get jobs before graduation to compete with. You are not alone, and it doesn't seem to matter where you live in the good old USA.
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