alright Nurses...what is your dream job?!

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  1. What do you look for in your job hunt?

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Is it pay, location, experience, growth? What are you missing from your current position?

Today, I started working with a new facility, supporting internal recruiters. The first thing I do is go online and see who our competitors are and BOOM!!!! I get overwhelmed with ALL the different jobs! How do you guys do it?!?! Everyone looks like they are hiring like crazy, when in fact I think I saw the same job posted 6 different ways! Every staffing agency has it posted, and the pay is different on each post. It took no more than 5 minutes and I was over whelmed, I gave up.

So, I'll ask again, is it pay, location, experience, growth? I want to take a different approach and get a better idea on what you are looking for in your next position. Are you settling in your job because it is in your area? Or... Are you bored being far away from home, but getting great pay?

I have been on the "inside" working with Registered Nurses in all specialities for about 3 years. I partner with facilities nationwide to help fill permeant, per diem, part time, and full time positions. I mainly partner with the facilities HR and hiring managers so I thought, why not hear it from you all.

I wish I could be a nurse but I faint easily LOL.

Long story short, I want to learn more about what you love most, and what you are missing in current job. O YA! Also, where in the world do you go now to look for jobs?!?! Don't even get me started on job boards...indeed, craigslist, monster, referrals?

If you have any questions for me please reach out.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
Is it pay, location, experience, growth?

A, B, and fill in the blank: respect from management (not messing with my schedule, not cutting my hours, being approachable and willing to discuss said changes without being a dictator). Which I'm not getting right now and is why I'm looking elsewhere. I've found the most reliable sites to be those of the employer itself.

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So you are head hunter, I will leave my mixed feelings about that out of this. As Rose Queen said, respect is what I am looking for. I know it when I get it.

You would need to interview each nurse that you are trying to recruit.. and discover what respect means to them.

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Thank you for that feedback. I discuss hiring needs with each hiring manager so Ill be sure to turn the tables.

My role and what I bring to the facility is different than a headhunter. I don't get paid by placements. Instead, facilities need additional support with responding to candidates, phone screening/qualifying, interviewing, and offering. You could look at it as being a contract internal employee for 1 year.

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I always thought it would be super cool to work as an NP in an embassy overseas. Never going to happen for me but yeah... a girl can fantasize

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If I get those two then I want 1) pay, 2)opportunities and encouragement for my growth (not necessarily up, could be just in being able to branch out in better and creative ways.

If if I have all of those, my work life balance falls into place. (Kids are raised).

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Thank you for that feedback. I discuss hiring needs with each hiring manager so Ill be sure to turn the tables.

My role and what I bring to the facility is different than a headhunter. I don't get paid by placements. Instead, facilities need additional support with responding to candidates, phone screening/qualifying, interviewing, and offering. You could look at it as being a contract internal employee for 1 year.

So you are an assistant to the headhunter? I was a contractor, agency nurse and travel nurse. NOBODY got paid unless I worked.. and then they got a cut. Usually 1/3 of the cost to the facility.

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Specializes in ICU.

It's a varying level of things for me. Great teamwork on a unit, excellent benefits provided by a company, a company that understands my life is not my job.

After that pay.

Then location.

You can have the highest paying job in the world, but if the environment sucks, then the pay is not worth it. Benefits are worth their weight in gold as well these days. Making me have a $6k deductible while not matching a retirement plan is not attractive either. I have to be able to take care of myself to take care of your customers. So, if I can't afford to go to the doc and get an abx when I'm sick, I can't care for your customers.

Right now, I have a little commute, my pay is lower than most hospitals, and I'm working nights, but I don't work in a toxic environment and my benefits are decent. My pay isn't horrible but I know it's higher other places.

But I know that what I want is not the same as say a twenty year old. My priorities are different.

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What you look for in a job often is a different from what keeps you in a job.

On paper, I would like to see a workable schedule (something consistent, no really unusual shifts, limited or no on-call).

The truth is what keeps you in a job is job satisfaction, and that is something you can't really know until you work there. Good coworkers, good teamwork, doctors available, enough supplies, working equipment, responsive management, adequate staffing and a sense of satisfaction that the patient is being given the care you want them to have, are the things that keep nurses from looking at job postings for other places.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

My three characteristics for an ideal position would entail the following:

1. Competitive pay

2. Work/life balance

3. Zero contact with patients or families

4. No hands-on procedural skills

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Top two for me are feeling respected/valued and total compensation package (pay, PTO, 401K matching and vestment, medical/dental/vision, etc etc).

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