Are there Jobs for New Grads?

Our class started job hunting in February. Out of 22 transitional students, 21 all have new jobs and the local hospitals ( Clarian, Methodist, St. Francis, Bloomington) started their interviews way back in March/09

If you are waiting until now to apply, you may find fewer job openings because the early birds got the worm.

It will likely cycle again in a few months.........as some of those nurses won't cut it, decide that is not the job for them, budget cuts are not as great etc etc.

Good luck.

One girl from our traditional class is from Chicago and she also found employment at a large hospital there.
I, personally, hate those on line apps.
Perhaps if you phoned them, bugged them, spoke with HR on a weekly basis? That's how I got mine. I actually applied seven times at the local hospital and kept getting a rejection letter on line. I then went into HR personally, put on my sweet-as-honey-outfit and spoke directly with the head of HR. It worked! She called me just after I got back home and asked me if I would like to interview the following week and I was offered the position on the spot.

Perhaps those online apps never even got to them?? I sometimes wonder about networking and submitting apps on line.......just how many actually get to the actual employer especially if its a website that just hosts nursing jobs with a link.

I don't think you want to relocate to Alaska

I just checked Mercy Hospital in Chicago and there are 10 RN jobs that are posted on their website and 6 at Northwestern.

I would phone them directly or better yet, go in and see them with a portfolio in hand.......and see what happens. Letters of reference always help as well if you can get your previous clinical instructors to write one up for you!

If you apply at those hospitals, you will need an ILL license.

Not sure about ILL. Perhaps someone could answer that on the ILL state nursing board