New Grad positions anyone/anywhere???

For CA jobs, check this thread, too. I posted a job today. http://allnurses.com/california-nurs...01-page34.html

Thanks, lperkrn...I applied to both those jobs on yesterday (Los Banos & Manteca). Indeed.com is really helpful, too.

Add another new grad to that!! Where are you???

I am another new grad that can't find a job. People keep asking if I am a RN now. I guess I am even though I don't feel like one. And Facebook doesn't help because people keep talking about their jobs. Walking in or close to a hospital makes me really sad. And I hate to see anyone wearing scrubs. I was really depressed for the last couple weeks but I have been trying to pull myself out of it. It wouldn't be so bad if people wouldn't use the words "nursing" and "shortage" in the same sentence.

I hear ya, prinsessa! I just moved across the country with my boyfriend b/c he's going to med school. Everytime we meet new people they ask me what I do and I kind of feel weird saying "I'm a nurse" because then I have to deal with the follow up question, "Oh, where are you working?" Then, because I have to explain that "I haven't actually been able to find a job yet," the conversation eventually ends up with the most *ing annoying comment of all: "But isn't there a nursing shortage?"
Every day after applying to everywhere I can think of that would hire an RN, I go take a walk around the park just to clear my head/relax. I force myself to go outside because it's way harder for me to break down into tears when I'm out in public.
Make sure the job hunt doesn't consume your daily life. Get outside, read a chapter of a good book, dance around your bedroom to the Spice Girls, bake cookies (something with chocolate to make you feel better )
Hang in there! Something will work out eventually!

Very interesting thread!

I graduated in June, passed NCLEX in August, started hunting for jobs last week. So far no good. I regret I haven't applied earlier. Some of my classmates have already started working in hospital in early August.

The funny thing is that I went to an evening program, one third of my classmates have full-time, regular jobs all along the nursing school. Me being one of them. I struggled with full-time work and full-time school. When I finished school with honor, I told myself how wonderful I'm! I really need to relax for a while after so many years of school including pre-reqs.

Then I studied a couple of months for NCLEX, passed it. Now I'm back to where I was before. In a unclear state I feel nursing school is like a dream, now dream is over and I'm back to my original state. I still have this full-time, secure, boring, regular professional job that makes OK money but leads to nowhere in the future. I come to work everyday, as if I've never went to nursing school, nor do I have that nursing license. I almost forget I'm an RN now. When anybody ask what I do, I always say I'm a XXX (my current job).

Then I have a classmates who is a school-teacher, she already signed the contract for the next school-year as far as I know. Another one who works at post-office and still works there. Not funny, for us second-careerers, like we all wasted all these years.

Anyway, at the bottom of my heart I guess I'm not done yet. I'm going to start applying for some LTC now. By the end of the year, if I cannot find anything, I 'll move to another state if I have to.

I know I feel like this is a bad dream and I wish someone would wake me up.I feel like I'm forgeting all the knowledge that I learned in Nursing school.I hate to beg for jobs,going to interviews and career fairs.I hate it.Period.

It seems like career fairs are a waste of time. You wait in line with 100s of other new grads to be told to apply on-line. Thanks for nothing! I have seen some positions on hospital websites for months. Why can't they give a new grad a chance??? I have even looked into LTC and nothing.